SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 2017
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Eighth-grade 125-pounder Ryan Jennings moves in on his opponent during Thursday’s Far West League district wrestling meet. Jennings won the district title in his weight bracket.
Wrestling
from 1B
work, I’m in trouble,” said
Buss.
Those troublemakers include
sixth-grade district champions
Yoskar Delamora (74 lbs.),
Damon Bucher (95 lbs.) and
Mason Bus (102 lbs.), along with
eight-grade individual champions
Elijah LaCosse (117 lbs.), Ryan
Jennings (125 lbs.) and Christian
Fishing
from 2B
this year.
All the usual techniques
such as side drifting, float fish-
ing, drift fishing, or pulling
plugs or divers and bait should
be effective.
During high water use
brighter colors and larger pre-
sentations.
YAQUINA RIVER:
Steelhead
The Yaquina River and Big
Elk Cr. are open for steelhead.
Fishing is fair. Wild winter
steelhead can be retained on
Newlan (195 lbs.)
LaCosse, who lost every
match and was 30 pounds heavier
as a sixth-grader two years ago,
claimed the 117-pound district
title be defeating an opponent in
the finals who had beaten
LaCosse all season.
In the title bout, LaCosse won
a barnburner with a 5-4 decision.
“He has worked extremely
hard and has been a true inspira-
tion,” said Buss.
Other top finishes for the
eighth-grade team included
Brady Libby, who placed third at
102 pounds.
For the sixth/seventh-grade
team, Ian Sissel (110 lbs.) and
Jonathan Rose (140 lbs.) each
placed second, with a fourth-
place finish for both Mikai Tapec
at (117 lbs.) and Ron Butler (150
lbs.), fifth place for Aaron Frisby
(117 lbs.), and sixth place for
Wyatt Tatum at 110 pounds.
North Bend won the eighth-
grade team title (207.5), followed
by Reedsport (124) and Siuslaw
(78.5). Riley Creek, Coquille,
Azalea, Myrtle Point and
Marshfield finished fourth
through eighth, respectively.
“This year, we stressed to the
team that it isn’t about wins and
losses. It’s about working hard
and getting better with every
opportunity, and having fun —
whether at practice, a wrestling
clinic or wrestling match,” said
Buss.
He credits wrestling camps
and clinics hosted by Siuslaw
High School wrestling coach Neil
Wartnik and middle school par-
ents and coaches Shawn Mann,
Jeremy Bernhardt and assistant
coach Chris LaCosse for helping
bring the program to the next
level.
“They have brought a lot of
passion and experience to the
middle school program,” said
Buss, who was honored for his
own efforts by being named the
Far West League Outstanding
Wrestling Coach for 2017.
Fittingly, Buss’s sixth-grade
son, Mason, was named the Far
West League’s Outstanding
Wrestler for his grade division.
Today, Siuslaw will compete at
regionals, with the top four
wrestlers from each division
advancing to state.
Big Elk Cr. with a daily and
annual bag limit of 1/day and
3/year.
The Yaquina River is open
for hatchery winter steelhead.
Casting spinners, drifting bait
or using a bobber and jig can
be effective.
regulations. Anglers can keep
1 fish over 20 inches per day
and only need their fishing
license.
Fishing for trout in other
area lakes has been slow. Trout
stocking in area lakes will start
at the end of February/early
March.
Basin 1 additional hatchery
steelhead may be retained per
day for a total aggregate of 3
adult fish harvested daily.
Anglers have been catching
a few rockfish and surfperch
along the jetties and sub-
merged rock piles.
Recreational crabbing is
open in the Coquille estuary
but crabbing is very slow due
to the large amounts of fresh-
water coming downstream.
TENMILE BASIN : Trout,
bass, 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.
In the Tenmile Basin 1 addi-
tional hatchery steelhead may
be retained per day for a total
aggregate of 3 adult fish har-
vested daily.
Largemouth bass fishing has
been slow. Anglers are catch-
ing bass near structure or on
the deep end of the weed lines
using jigs or rubber worms.
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 has been
good when ocean swells are
small. Surf perch anglers will
do the best fishing with sand
shrimp or Berkely Gulp sand
worms.
• O CEAN S ALMON
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.
• B OTTOM F ISHING
When the weather allows,
fishing in the winter months
for lingcod and rockfish can be
fun and successful. Some
anglers that were able to fish
last weekend caught limits of
rockfish and some lingcod.
• P ACIFIC H ALIBUT
New for 2017 vessels fish-
ing for or retaining halibut will
be required to have onboard a
functioning rockfish descend-
ing device, and use it to
descend any rockfish released
when fishing outside of the 30
fathom regulatory line.
• S HELLFISH
Call the ODA shellfish safe-
ty hotline at 1-800-448-2474
before harvesting for the most
current information about
shellfish safety closures.
Additional information is
available from ODA’s Food
Safety Program at 503-986-
4720 or the ODA shellfish clo-
sures website.
• C RABBING
Ocean and bay crabbing is
open coastwide. Bay crabbing
has slowed down as it typical-
ly does this time of the year.
COOS COUNTY LAKES
PONDS: Trout
AND
A few hatchery male steel-
head were stocked into Middle
Empire Lake this week to
allow anglers for more oppor-
tunity.
Fishing regulations for these
stocked steelhead in Empire
Lakes are just like the trout
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COOS RIVER BASIN:
Dungeness crab, bay clams,
rockfish, steelhead
Trout fishing in streams is
now closed until May 22,
2017.
Currently all steelhead
rivers in the Coos Basin are
high and muddy.
The West Fork Millicoma
River will be the first river to
clear. When water conditions
are good, anglers are still
catching fish throughout the
Coos Basin. Anglers are drift-
ing eggs or corkies along the
stream bottom 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
COQUILLE RIVER BASIN:
Crab, steelhead, salmon
Trout fishing in streams is
now closed until May 22,
2017.
All of the Coquille Basin
steelhead rivers were high and
muddy this past weekend.
Anglers have been catching
hatchery steelhead at LaVerne
Park on the North Fork
Coquille River and on the
South Fork Coquille River
from Powers downstream to
Broadbent.
Bank anglers have been
plunking with Spin-n-Glos and
bait near the town of Coquille.
Anglers have had success
drifting eggs or corkies. In the
Coquille Basin 1 additional
hatchery steelhead may be
retained per day for a total
aggregate of 3 adult fish har-
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UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH:
Steelhead
Good numbers of steelhead
are being caught up to and
above Canyonville and anglers
are hooking into a few hatch-
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Pay attention to river gages
for the South as it has been
high and unfishable a large
portion of the time this season.
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perch, crab
Recreational crab harvesting
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Bottom fishing has been
good when the ocean condi-
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Recreational harvest of
