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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2017
The
Siuslaw
Baseball
Association will host two early
registration and informational
meetings, Tueday, Jan. 31 and
Tuesday, Feb. 7, in the Siuslaw
High School mall area.
Both meetings will take
place at 6 p.m.
Register and pay fees early,
or come learn about financial
assistance and ask questions.
Also, come learn about volun-
teer opportunities and meet
other parents of baseball play-
ers this season.
Registration fees are $50 per
Fishing
from 1B
hatchery steelhead 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
T-ball player or $60 each for all
other players.
There is also a $30 “Opt
Out” fee available for volun-
teering.
Fees are nonrefundable after
Feb. 19.
SBA Registrations and fees
are due by Friday, Feb. 17, or at
assessments on Feb. 18 and 19.
Late registrations will be
accepted only if approved by
the SBA Board on available
team space and when accompa-
nied by additional fees deter-
mined by late uniform order-
ing, printing, delivery and
administrative expenses.
To register by mail, send
forms and fees to: Siuslaw
Baseball Association, P.O. Box
873, Florence, Ore. 97439.
Email questions to siuslaw-
baseball@gmail.com
Players will be placed into
leagues based on their age as of
May 1, 2017.
Leagues will include:
T-ball—Boys and girls, ages
5 and 6 years old. There will be
no assessments for this group
unless a 6-year-old would like
to try-out for Rookies.
Players must have 1 year of
T-ball, be assessed at a Rookie
level by coaches at assessments
and be approved by the SBA
Board as being safe to play up.
Rookies—Ages 7 and 8 for
boys and girls.
Minors—Boys ages 9 and 10
year old.
Majors—Boys ages 11 and
12 years old.
Prep—Boys ages 13 and 14
year old.
Girls ages 9 years and older
interested in softball can regis-
ter at Boys and Girls Club by
calling 541-902-0304.
Coaches will call players
assigned to their teams by
March 7 to inform them of
practice times.
Rookies, Minors and Majors
should turn out for assessments
at Miller Park one time, either
Saturday or Sunday. T-ball and
Prep teams do not need to
attend assessments.
Assessments times will be as
follows:
• Saturday, Feb. 18
Minors — 9 to 10:30 a.m.
Majors — 10:30 a.m. to
noon
Rookies — Noon to 1:30
p.m.
• Sunday, Feb. 19
Rookies — 1 to 1:45 p.m.
Minors — 1:45 to 2:30 p.m.
Majors — 2:30 to 3:15 p.m.
Players with gloves should
bring them to assessments.
Coaches will use assessment
results when drafting players
for teams.
No one is excluded from
playing based on assessments.
or using a bobber and jig can
be effective.
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.
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.
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