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4 B SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2017 Fishing from 1B Casting spinners, drifting bait or using a bobber and jig can be effective. ALSEA RIVER: Chinook, steelhead Steelhead fishing opened on the Alsea River and listed trib- utaries. Fishing is fair when river conditions are favorable. Casting spinners, drifting bait or using a bobber and jig can be effective. SALMON RIVER: Steelhead The Salmon River opened for wild and hatchery steel- head is open. Wild winter steelhead can be retained on the Salmon River. Daily and annual bag limit on wild winter steelhead are 1/day and 3/year. Casting spin- ners, drifting bait or using a bobber and jig can be effec- tive. SILETZ RIVER AND BAY: Steelhead Winter steelhead opportuni- ties are improving as more fish move through the mainstem. Casting spinners, drifting bait or using a bobber and jig can be effective. WILSON RIVER: Steelhead Hatchery steelhead are available and opportunities should improve on through January as conditions improve. All the usual techniques such as side drifting, float fish- ing, and pulling plugs or divers and bait, should be effective. Anglers are reminded that fall Chinook season is closed. YAQUINA RIVER: Steelhead The Yaquina River is open for hatchery winter steelhead. Casting spinners, drifting bait or using a bobber and jig can be effective. COOS COUNTY LAKES/PONDS: Trout Rainbow trout were stocked in Upper Empire, Bradley, Saunders, Powers and Butterfield lakes in October. Fishing for these stocked fish has slowed down. Coos County lakes and ponds will not be stocked again until the spring. COOS RIVER BASIN: Dungeness crab, bay clams, rockfish, steelhead Trout fishing in streams is closed until May 22. A few steelhead have been caught the past few weeks in the West Fork Millicoma, East Fork Millicoma, and South Fork Coos rivers. The West Fork Millicoma was the only river in the basin that was fishable over the past weekend. Anglers are drifting eggs or corkies along the stream bot- tom or using a jig suspended under a bobber. Anglers fish- ing the South Fork Coos River above Dellwood will need a permit from Weyerhaeuser, which they can pick up at the Dellwood office. In the Coos Basin 1 addi- tional hatchery steelhead may be retained per day for a total aggregate of 3 adult fish har- vested daily. Anglers have been catching a few rockfish and surfperch along the jetties and sub- merged rock piles. Fishing for rockfish in the bay has been spotty. The marine fish daily bag limit for bottom fish (rockfish) is 7 fish and a sepa- rate daily limit for lingcod (2). The 7 fish marine bag limit will remain in place, with these adjustments for 2017: Create a sub-bag limit of 6 black rockfish, remove the sub-bag limit for canary rock- fish, add China/quillback/cop- per rockfishes to the sub-bag limit with blue/Deacon rock- fish and change the limit from 3 to 4. Finally remove the 10-inch minimum size for kelp green- ling. Retention of cabezon is not allowed until July 1. Recreational crabbing is now open in all Oregon waters. Crabbing was decent over the weekend in Coos Bay. Crabbing from a boat has been better than crabbing from the dock but dock crabbers are picking up a few legal crabs. Recreational harvest of bay clams remains open along the entire Oregon coast. Clamming is excellent during low tides near Charleston, off Cape Arago Highway, and Clam Island. There are also good places to dig clams even on positive low tides in Coos Bay. Recreational harvest of razor clams and mussels is closed from the entire Oregon coast due to elevated levels of domoic acid. This includes all beaches and all bays. Before any shell- fish harvest trip, make sure to check the Oregon Department of Agriculture website for any updates. Steelhead anglers have reported catching a few steel- head in the North Fork Coquille at LaVerne Park and the South Fork Coquille rivers. Anglers have had success drifting eggs or corkies. Recreational crabbing is now open in all Oregon waters. Crabbing is very slow in the lower Coquille River due to the large amounts of freshwa- ter coming downstream. TENMILE BASIN: Trout, bass, yellow perch, steelhead Trout fishing in the streams of the Tenmile Basin are now closed until May 22. Trout fishing in Tenmile Lakes is open all year. A few steelhead have been reported in Tenmile Creek. Anglers will have success plunking near the acclimation sites or fishing a jig under a bobber. Eel Creek is now open to steelhead fishing. Largemouth bass fishing has slowed down over the past few weeks. Anglers are catching bass near structure or on the deep end of the weed lines using jigs or rubber worms. Fishing for yellow perch has picked up in Tenmile Lakes. Anglers have been catching a few yellow perch measuring 14 to 15-inches long. Worms fished near the lake bottom work very well for catching yellow perch. Anglers should fish in water depths of 15 feet or deeper to consistent- ly find the bigger yellow perch. UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH: are hooking into a few. Fishing may slow with cooler tempera- tures. WINCHESTER BAY: Bottomfish, perch Fishing for bottom fish in the Triangle and South jetty has been successful. PACIFIC OCEAN AND BEACHES: Bottomfish, surf perch, crab Recreational crabbing is now open in all Oregon waters. Bottom fishing has been good when the ocean condi- tions allow. Recreational harvest of razor clams is closed on the entire Oregon coast due to ele- vated levels of domoic acid. Harvest of mussels is open on the entire Oregon Coast. Before any shellfish harvest trip, make sure to check the Oregon Department of Agriculture website for any updates. Surf perch fishing was decent this past weekend. Surf perch anglers will do the best fishing with sand shrimp when ocean swells are small. • Ocean salmon The ocean recreational salmon fishery off Oregon is currently closed. ...need a friend? Meet Ms. Beasley Ms. Beasley is a sweet, little girl that loves to follow you around and have casual conversations. If you sit down, that’s only an invitation for her to come and snuggle in your lap. She has a sensitive stomach so she’s on a special food but don’t let that make you miss out on this lovely girl. Give her a treat and she will become your little shadow! If you would like to meet Ms. Beasley or any of her friends, please visit us at: OREGON COAST HUMANE SOCIETY 2840 Rhododendron Drive • Florence • 541-997-4277 www.oregoncoasthumane.org This message brought to you by: Siuslaw News Steelhead The South Umpqua is open to winter steelhead fishing, upstream to Jackson Creek. Only adipose fin-clipped steelhead may be retained. 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