NED HICKSON , SPORTS EDITOR
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SATURDAY EDITION
❘ FEBRUARY 25, 2017 ❘
SECTION B
Siuslaw News
Sports & Recreation
STANDINGS
FINAL
2/25/17
B ASKETBALL
N. BEND
SIUSLAW
DOUGLAS
MARSHFIELD
BROOKINGS
S. UMP.
ODFW district Biologist
John Spangler will discuss
the salmon and steelhead
runs on the Siuslaw River
and other coastal streams at
the next meeting of the
Salmon Trout Enhancement
Program (STEP).
The meeting will be held
Wednesday, March1, begin-
ning at 7 p.m.
Spangler will show the
size of the current salmon
runs and show ODFW pre-
dictions for future runs.
He will also talk about
environmental conditions
that have caused a 60 percent
reduction in salmon and
steelhead returning to the
Siuslaw River.
Spangler has been the biol-
ogist for mid-coast area for
23 years and is also the STEP
biologist for Florence STEP.
There will be a short STEP
business meeting before
Spangler’s presentation.
Step meetings are held in
the back room of the
Florence Elks Club and are
open to the public.
MWL B OYS
FWL B OYS
10-0
5-5
5-5
4-6
3-7
3-7
T. LAKE
SILETZ
LOWELL
EDDYVILLE
MOHAWK
MAPLETON
6-0
5-1
4-2
4-2
2-4
2-4
MWL G IRLS
FWL G IRLS
MARSHFIELD 9-1 LOWELL
DOUGLAS
8-2 ALSEA
N. BEND
6-4 SILETZ
BROOKINGS 5-5 MCKENZIE
SIUSLAW
1-9 MOHAWK
S. UMP.
1-9 MAPLETON
6-0
4-0
2-2
3-3
3-3
0-4
S PORTS
Calendar
Feb.
25-26
•
SHS BOWLING
STATE TOURNEY
P ORTLAND
Spring openers
• MARCH 13
SHS SOFTBALL
AT
N EWPORT
4 P . M .
On the
Bite
• MARCH 18
SHS BASEBALL
AT
T AFT
NOON
• MARCH 23
A
SHS TRACK
WEEKLY
FISHING REPORT FOR
AT S IUSLAW
S IUSLAW I CEBREAKER
THE LOCAL REGION
4 P . M .
www.dfw.state.or.us/RR
• APRIL 13
MHS TRACK
AT
NORTH COAST
LAKES:
M ONROE
4 P . M .
T IDE T ABLE
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
Feb. 25
10:56am / 7.8 5:05am / 2.3
5:41pm/ -0.4
Feb. 26
12:01am / 6.9 5:46am / 1.9
11:38pm/ 7.9 6:17pm/ -0.4
Feb. 27
12:35am / 7.2 6:27am / 1.4
12:22pm /7.9 6:52pm / -0.3
Feb. 28
1:09am / 7.5
1:06pm/ 7.7
7:10am / 1.1
7:29pm/ 0.1
March 1
1:44am / 7.7
1:54pm/ 7.3
7:56am / 0.8
8:07pm/ 0.6
March 2
2:22am / 7.8
2:47pm/ 6.8
8:46am / 0.7
8:49pm/ 1.2
March 3
3:04am / 7.8
3:47pm/ 6.2
9:41am / 0.6
9:35pm/ 1.8
S IUSLAW
N EWS
148 Maple St.
Florence
541-997-3441
NED HICKSON/SIUSLAW NEWS
A high water table mixed with steady rainfall resulted in light flooding in several areas around Florence last week.
At Miller Park’s playground, nine-year-old Serenity Fox made the most of the standing water as the sun broke
Thursday afternoon.
Fly Fishing Expo in Reedsport today
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., today,
Feb 25.
The Expo is a free day of fun for the
entire family.
The expo offers the opportunity for
both long-term anglers and those new
to the sport learn about fly casting
through special features, including
demonstrations and programs on vari-
ous aspects of fly fishing, fly tying and
fly casting.
There will also equipment displays,
informational displays 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 special
presentation on smallmouth bass fish-
ing on John Day River.
More than 20 fly tyers from
Oregon and Washington will be present
doing demonstrations and sales.
To answer questions regarding
Oregon lakes, personnel will be avail-
able from the Eel/Tenmile STEP pro-
gram, Tenmile Lake Basin Partnership,
ODFW of Coos County, and the CCA
group.
Frank Moore, international expert on
fly-rod casting, will also be demon-
strating and helping young and old
M ARINE B OARD
SALEM — Every six
years, the Oregon State
Marine Board (OSMB) solic-
its feedback from boaters and
facility owners to create a cat-
alog of boating facility needs,
and then assigns priorities to
sites for grant funding.
This information is com-
piled into the “Statewide
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 repre-
sentatives 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 pro-
mote conservation and introduce the
sport of fly fishing to adults and young
children.
The club has members from
Waldport to Gold Beach.
Nehalem Hatchery
released 200 surplus winter
steelhead into Vernonia
pond, 57 into Lost Lake
and 60 into Lake Lytle.
These fish get fairly active
in the lake and offer a
unique fishing experience,
especially when the rivers
are blown out. Once in the
lake they are considered
“trout” and do not require a
Combined Angling Tag.
Anglers are reminded,
however, that only one
trout per day over 20 inch-
es may be retained, and
these fish will almost all be
in that size range.
Trout stocking is com-
plete in the other North
Coast lakes, but there are
still hold over trout avail-
able and winter can be a
great time to fish for them
as these trout will be larger
now, and getting hungry.
The trout stocking sched-
ule for 2017 is available
online, and printed ver-
sions will be out soon.
SIUSLAW RIVER:
Chinook, steelhead
The Siuslaw River and
Lake Cr. are open for
hatchery winter steelhead.
Fishing is slow.
See
FISHING 3B
SEEKS PUBLIC INPUT ON FACILITY PLAN
Boating Access Improvement
Plan,” commonly referred to
as the “Six-Year Plan.”
The agency invites boaters
to participate in a survey to
help identify where the needs
are around the state.
“With over 1,100 boating
access sites in Oregon operat-
ed and owned by more than
160 different recreational
boating facility owners, the
Marine Board relies heavily
on feedback about the condi-
tion of boating facilities from
all recreational boaters;
motorized and non-motor-
ized,” said Janine Belleque,
Boating Facility Manager for
the Marine Board. “We lever-
age the dollars brought in
through boat registration fees
and marine gas tax with feder-
al grants and matching dollars
from facility owners to main-
tain, as well as build, new
recreational boating access in
the state.”
The Marine Board does not
own or operate any boating
facilities in the state; howev-
er, the Marine Board’s
Boating Facilities Section
provides technical assistance
to boating facility owners in
the form of design, facility
engineering,
surveying,
waterway permitting and
See
INPUT 3B
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
STEP to hear
from ODFW
on salmon runs
Swing kid
L EAGUE