SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2017
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Flood conditions means extra caution for boaters
Last weekend’s heavy rain-
fall and continued wet forecast
this week sets up the perfect
scenario for potential flooding
on area rivers.
With flooding comes debris
flows with trees, root wads, and
other material that can impact
the safety of boaters on the
water.
The Oregon Marine Board
and marine law enforcement
strongly urge boaters to take
the following precautions:
Viks
from 1B
cost them junior guard Jared
Brandt by the fourth quarter.
Junior post Trent Reavis still
managed 17 points and 8
rebounds to lead Siuslaw in scor-
ing and off the boards, with 8
points each from juniors Kyle
King and Jake Hickson, as well
Fishing
from 1B
using a bobber and jig can be
effective.
WILSON RIVER: Steelhead
ATHLETE
OF THE
WEEK
Before hitting the water,
OSMB suggests checking
current conditions online at:
www.boatoregon.com and click
on the ‘Boat Oregon Map’
Mapl
eton
H.S.
Basketball
The Junior post lead the
Sailors with 30 points and
38 rebounds in two games
last week on the basket-
ball court. In one game
alone, he pulled down 24
rebounds.
Honorable Mention
Eyza Abbas
Honorable mention is
given to Siuslaw Wrestler
Eyza Abbas who finished
sixth out of 30 competi-
tors in her weight class
at the Western Oregon
Girls’ Regional Wrestling
Meet at Thurston High
School in Springfield.
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• Wear a life jacket. Given
the water temperature and
equally cold air temperature,
boaters are encouraged to wear
a properly fitting life jacket on
the outside of their cold weath-
er attire.
• Boat with others and stay
within sight of one another.
• Know your limits and how
to self-rescue. Be sure your
skills and experience are equal
to the river and the conditions.
• Fill out a digital float plan
and print out a copy to let oth-
ers know where you are boating
and when to expect your return.
The digital form, when sub-
mitted, sends an email to the
Marine Board that can be used
later to aid marine law enforce-
ment should a boater need help.
Visit www.boatoregon.com
and click on the Boat Oregon
Map. The website and the
application are optimized for
mobile devices.
as senior point guard Brogan
Cornish.
Brandt had 6 points and fresh-
man Sam Myers had 4 points.
Still tied for third at 3-3 with
Marshfield and Douglas, the
Vikings hosted the Pirates last
night (after press deadlines) for a
crucial game that could deter-
mine the second-place spot in the
Far West as the league winds
down next week.
It was the first league win of
the season for South Umpqua,
which is in last place at 1-5 (10-
10 overall).
North Band, ranked No. 4 in
the state at the 4A level by the
OSAA, remains undefeated in
league at 6-0.
Earlier that night, the Lady
Vikings took to the hardwood
against the Lady Lancers, whose
freshman standout Shalyn Gray
was nearly unstoppable, scoring
28 points before the final buzzer.
Meanwhile, Siuslaw senior
point guard and top scorer
Destinie Tatum found herself the
main focus of South Umpqua’s
defense, which held Tatum to her
lowest-scoring game of the sea-
son with 5 points before fouling
out.
Sophomore Alyssa Richards
led the Lady Viks with 10 points
and 8 rebounds, followed by jun-
ior Marika White with 8 points, 7
rebounds and 4 blocked shots.
Senior Claire Waggoner also
had 8 points to go with 4
rebounds.
The loss puts Siuslaw at 1-5 in
league (6-13 overall) along with
South Umpqua (5-15).
Last night, the Lady Viks host-
ed Marshfield (after press dead-
lines).
Friday, both Siuslaw teams
will be on the road at Brookings-
Harbor.
Girls tip off at 6 p.m., followed
by the boys at 7:30 p.m.
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.
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.
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.
fishing with sand shrimp when
ocean swells are small.
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
Dominic Wells
• Make sure the boat ramp is
open for launching.
The Marine Board is work-
ing closely with facility man-
agers and will include closure
information on the Boat
Oregon Map.
• Scout the river before run-
ning it. Rivers are dynamic, and
don’t stay the same over time.
Boulders and logs move, trees
fall and currents shift.
When in doubt — scout and
portage out.
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
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UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH:
Steelhead
The South Umpqua is open
to winter steelhead fishing,
upstream to Jackson Creek.
Only adipose fin-clipped
steelhead may be retained.
Steelhead are being caught
up to Canyonville and anglers
are hooking into a few. Fishing
may slow with cooler tempera-
tures.
COQUILLE RIVER BASIN:
Crab, steelhead, salmon
Trout fishing in streams is
closed until May 22.
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
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
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• Ocean salmon
The ocean recreational
salmon fishery off Oregon is
currently closed. Please stay
tuned for updates on the 2017
seasons. Details, including reg-
ulations, and more information
on ocean salmon seasons.
• Bottom Fishing
New bag and sub-bag limits
for 2017: To stay within
Federal allocations, and try to
provide for year-round fishing
opportunities, there are some
changes to daily bag limits.
Canary rockfish has been
declared rebuilt and is now
part of the 7 fish marine bag
limit (no sub-bag limit).
Black rockfish will have a
sub-bag limit of 6 fish (out of
the 7 fish daily bag, no more
than 6 may be black rockfish).
There is a 4 fish sub-bag
limit for blue/deacon, China,
copper, and quillback rockfish
combined (out of the 7 fish
marine bag, no more than 4
may be these species com-
bined). The daily bag limit for
lingcod remains at 2 fish and
flatfish species, other than
Pacific halibut, remains at 25
fish.
• Reminder: the Cabezon
season is closed; it will reopen
July 1.
• Pacific halibut
The 2017 quota for Pacific
halibut will be determined in
early this month. ODFW staff-
recommended season dates
will be available in mid-
February.
• SHELLFISH
Call the ODA shellfish safe-
ty hotline at 1-800-448-2474
for the most current informa-
tion about shellfish safety clo-
sures before harvesting.
Additional information is
available from ODA’s Food
Safety Program at 503-986-
4720 or the ODA shellfish clo-
sures website.
• Mussels
The recreational harvest of
mussels is open coastwide.
• Razor clams
NOTICE: Razor clams are
closed along the entire Oregon
coast due to elevated levels of
domoic acid. This includes all
beaches and bays.
• Bay clams
Bay clamming is open along
the entire Oregon Coast from
the Columbia River to the
California border.
Check the ODFW Shellfish
website for where and when to
harvest your favorite bivalves.
Updated maps on where to
clam.
• Crab
Crabbing is open in the
ocean and all bays. Crabbing
in Coos Bay has been good.
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