SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2017
A NNUAL F LY F ISHING E XPO
The
Lower
Umpqua
Flycasters will be holding its
27th annual Fly Fishing Expo
at the Reedsport Community
Center, 451 Winchester Ave. in
Reedsport, from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m., on Saturday, Feb 25.
The Expo is a free day of fun
for the entire family.
The expo offers the opportu-
Fishing
from 1B
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 avail-
able and opportunities should
improve on through January as
conditions improve.
All the usual techniques such
as side drifting, float fishing,
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.
Garrison
from 1B
three-touchdown perform-
ance from all-state running
back Tooey Emery.
A week later, the Vikings
defeated Junction City, 13-0, in
a muddy state quarterfinals
game in Florence before suffer-
ing their only loss of the sea-
son, a heart-wrenching, 7-6
semifinals squeaker to North
Catholic in another mud bowl
at the old Hans Petersen
Memorial Field.
Garrison served as the
Vikings head coach for only
four seasons, but he kick-start-
ed a culture of winning. He cul-
tivated a work ethic and a
supreme confidence in his play-
ers that would continue over
the next half-century.
“Erv raised everyone’s
expectations,” said Weber, the
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nity for both long-term anglers
and those new to the sport learn
about fly casting through spe-
cial features, including demon-
strations and programs on vari-
ous aspects of fly fishing, fly
tying and fly casting.
There will also equipment
displays, informational dis-
plays by various stream and
fish enhancement groups, a
concession stand with meals
and snacks available, and raffle
drawings each hour all day.
Dave Williams will do a spe-
cial presentation on small-
mouth bass fishing on John
Day River.
More than 20 fly tyers
from Oregon and Washington
will be present doing demon-
strations and sales.
To answer questions regard-
ing Oregon lakes, personnel
will be available from the
Eel/Tenmile STEP program,
Tenmile
Lake
Basin
Partnership, ODFW of Coos
County, and the CCA group.
Frank Moore, international
expert on fly-rod casting, will
also be demonstrating and help-
ing young and old learn how to
cast. This year also includes
two new exhibits, Project
Healing Water Fly Fishing and
Source One Serenity, both
geared to military veterans.
Other exhibits include: wild
flowers, fishing antiques, float
boats and representatives from
various fly rod and fly tying
equipment companies.
This is the only event of its
kind on the south and central
Oregon coast. The purpose of
the free expo is to promote con-
servation and introduce the
sport of fly fishing to adults and
young children.
Casting spinners, drifting bait
or using a bobber and jig can be
effective.
weekend.
Anglers are drifting eggs or
corkies along the stream bot-
tom or using a jig suspended
under a bobber. Anglers fishing
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 addition-
al 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 submerged
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 separate 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 rock-
fish, remove the sub-bag limit
for canary rockfish, add
China/quillback/copper rock-
fishes to the sub-bag limit with
blue/Deacon rockfish 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 shellfish
harvest trip, make sure to check
the Oregon Department of
Agriculture website for any
updates.
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 freshwater
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 fish-
ing 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. Fishing for yellow
perch has picked up in Tenmile
Lakes.
ing. A punishing fullback and
search-and-destroy linebacker,
Howell emerged as the top
defensive player all three years
he wore a Siuslaw uniform and
was named to the East-West
Shrine all-star game following
his senior year.
Tragically, Howell died in a
logging accident in Thorne
Bay, Alaska, on October 29,
1973.
“Erv lifted up the entire
school and actually, the entire
town,” Weber said. “He created
a climate of excitement at
Siuslaw.”
Garrison left Siuslaw after
the 1964-65 school year and
had stints at Milwaukee (1965-
73), David Douglas (1974-78)
and Canby (1979-90) high
schools. He posted a 90-36
record at Canby and twice took
that school to the large school
state semifinals. His overall
record, through 32 seasons, was
185-120-1.
“Canby was a moribund
football program when Erv
showed up,” said Mike Doty,
one of Garrison’s top assistant
coaches and Canby’s eventual
head coach. “The year before
he arrived they went 0-9 and
scored their only touchdown on
the last drive of their last game.
“It took him a couple years,
but he got the program rolling,”
added Doty. “He was an old-
school, blue-collar coach who
demanded a lot from the kids.
But he was also a great story-
teller and motivational speaker
and he had a great sense of
humor.”
Doty said Garrison had trou-
ble remembering some of his
players’ names. To solve the
problem he would take photos
of them and post them in his
office with their names under
the pictures.
“That’s Erv,” said Doty. “He
was such a character. In his
later years (at Canby) he took
on a grandfatherly aura. People
loved him.”
Garrison ran the Wing-T
offense at all of his stops. The
scheme involves a lot of misdi-
rection plays and creates con-
siderable confusion for oppo-
nents. Several of Garrison’s
protégés became head coaches
at other Oregon high schools
and continued to run the Wing-
T.
Garrison was born in
Aberdeen, Wash., on June 2,
1933, before his family moved
to Tillamook, on the northern
Oregon Coast, when he was six
months old. His father was the
foreman of a logging crew, and
it wasn’t long before young Erv
was tagging along, setting
chokers, falling timber and run-
ning equipment.
He attended tiny Nehalem
High School, which is about 25
miles north of Tillamook, and
emerged as a standout in foot-
ball (as a single-wing quarter-
back), basketball, track and
baseball, graduating in 1952.
Garrison loved being in the
woods and planned on a career
of logging. But one day an
assistant football coach from
Oregon State showed up at his
home with a scholarship offer.
It was too good to pass up.
Garrison didn’t stay in
Corvallis long, however. He
dropped out of school after one
year and then got drafted, but
was turned away when he
flunked his physical because of
a bum knee. A year after that,
he began attending Oregon
College of Education (now
Western Oregon University),
where he played for legendary
coach Bill McArthur.
One of Garrison’s teammates
was Darrell “Mouse” Davis,
who revolutionized football
with his pass-happy, “run and
shoot” offense while coaching
at Hillsboro, Sunset and
Milwaukee high schools in the
1970s and later at several col-
lege and NFL teams, including
a six-year stint as head coach at
Portland State.
Garrison and Davis became
lifelong friends and often met
for lunch in recent years.
Garrison also starred in track
at OCE, finishing fifth at the
national meet in the javelin in
1958 with a throw of 217 feet,
5 inches. He earned his degree
in education later that year.
In September of 1958,
Garrison landed his first teach-
ing and coaching jobs at
Knappa High School, along the
Columbia River in northwest
Oregon.
After serving one year as an
assistant, Garrison took over
the head coaching job and guid-
ed the Loggers to back-to-back
playoff appearances, including
a run to the Class B state semi-
finals in 1959.
The following spring,
Garrison got a call from
Siuslaw Superintendent Dick
Shollenberger, who was search-
ing for a head football coach.
“He had gotten my name
from
McArthur,”
noted
Garrison. “They were good
friends. He (McArthur) appar-
ently thought I was a pretty
good coach.”
More than pretty good, it
turns out...
Viks
fans were.”
Perry said that a combina-
tion of moving the ball well
and constantly improving team
chemistry provided the team
with more scoring opportuni-
ties.
And defensively, “We really
limited their studs to minimal
scoring with great man-to-man
defense.”
That pressure forced the
Trojans to turn the ball over on
steals 9 times, each of which
led to a Siuslaw bucket.
The win meant second place
as the Vikings headed into last
night’s final game of the regu-
lar season (after press dead-
lines), with the Vikings hosting
undefeated North Bend (9-0).
An upset over the Bulldogs
would guarantee Siuslaw sec-
ond place and a home game to
start the state playoffs.
A loss by the Vikings but
win for Marshfield over
Douglas last night would give
second place to the Pirates due
to their two wins over the
Vikings earlier this season.
However, should Douglas
upset Marshfield, the Viks
would still retain second place
even with a loss to North Bend.
A third-place finish still
means advancing to the first
round of state, but it would
open on the road.
“Making the playoffs hasn’t
been done here for quite some
time, so we are pretty excited
to accomplish that,” said Perry.
“We still have some goals we
want to accomplish and I feel
we are peaking at just the right
time.”
Sailors
able to come out on top, 64-52.
The loss puts the Sailors into a
match-up with Lowell (4-2)
today at Northwestern Christian
University, beginning at 11 a.m.,
with the winner advancing to the
first round of state 1A playoffs
next week as the MWL’s third-
place team.
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
starting quarterback on the
1963 squad. “He told us that if
we put in the time and out-
worked other teams that we had
a right to think we were going
to win.
“And the guy had charisma.
He was fun to play for.”
That charisma shined bright-
ly during a team meeting prior
to the 1961 season, Garrison’s
first at Siuslaw. Dennis Howell,
who had just moved to
Florence from Eugene, was sit-
ting in a corner by himself.
Assistant coach Dick Smith
told Garrison he thought
Howell was on the verge of
quitting the team.
“I put my arm around the kid
and told him to hang in there,
that we had big plans for him
down the road,” said Garrison
in a 2016 phone interview from
his home in Milwaukie.
The coach wasn’t exaggerat-
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from 1B
and held it throughout the
game, although the Trojans
threatened early in the fourth
quarter.
Perry said one of the things
that fueled the team down the
stretch was the support of fans
who had traveled to Douglas
on a rooter bus for the game.
“It was huge having a strong
visiting section at Douglas,”
Perry said. “At times, our fans
were louder than Douglas’s
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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
from 1B
Though it turned out to be a
barnburner, with the Sailors (2-
4) taking the Warriors (5-1) to
task during one of the highest-
scoring and closest games of the
season for both teams, Siletz was
Cram
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coach and SHS athletic director
Chris Johnson on Monday,
Johnson said he was “thrilled to
announce that Collin Cram,
“The History of Siuslaw
Football: a Tradition of
Excellence” is due out this
September.
Hunt lives near Bozeman,
Mont., and spends his time as a
freelance writer, vacation
rental host and admiring the
mountains in Big Sky Country.
town folk hero... has accepted a
coaching position with Siuslaw
Track and Field.”
The Vikings will open the
track and field season at home
April 21, at the Central Coast
Invitational, starting at 4 p.m.
