SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2017
Fishing
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in the lake and offer a unique
fishing experience, especially
when the rivers are blown out.
Once in the lake they are con-
sidered “trout” and do not
require a Combined Angling
Tag.
Anglers are reminded, how-
ever, that only one trout per
day over 20 inches may be
retained, and these fish will
almost all be in that size range.
Trout stocking is complete
in the other North Coast lakes,
but there are still hold over
trout available and winter can
be a great time to fish for them
as these trout will be larger
now, and getting hungry. The
trout stocking schedule for
2017 is available online, and
printed versions will be out
soon.
SIUSLAW RIVER: Chinook,
steelhead
The Siuslaw River and Lake
Cr. are open for hatchery win-
ter steelhead. Fishing is slow.
Casting spinners, drifting bait
or using a bobber and jig can
be effective.
MID COAST LAKES:
The trout stocking schedule
for 2017 is available online
and trout have been stocked in
some lakes. Fishing for the
various warm water fish
species will slow as water tem-
peratures cool. There are
numerous lakes in the Florence
area that can provide good
opportunity.
ALSEA RIVER AND BAY:
Steelhead
Steelhead fishing is open on
the Alsea River and listed trib-
utaries. The river is shaping up
after last week’s rain. Fishing
is slow. Alsea Hatchery is hav-
ing a below average return to
the hatchery.
Casting spinners, drifting
bait or using a bobber and jig
can be effective.
SALMON RIVER: Steelhead
The Salmon River is open
for wild and hatchery steel-
head. Fishing is slow.
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 spinners, drifting
bait or using a bobber and jig
can be effective.
SILETZ RIVER: Steelhead
The river is shaping up after
last week’s rain. Steelhead
fishing is fair. Drift boaters are
having fair success from
Moonshine Park to Siletz and
bank anglers are catching
hatchery fish in the Siletz
gorge.
Casting spinners, drifting
bait or using a bobber and jig
can be effective.
WILSON RIVER: Steelhead
Fishing was slow on the
Wilson last weekend due to
high water and marginal con-
ditions. It should be dropping
into prime shape by the end of
the week and through the
weekend. There should be
plenty of broodstock hatchery
and wild steelhead around, and
there have been some big fish
coming off the Wilson 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
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.
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.
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Fishing regulations for these
stocked steelhead in Empire
Lakes are just like the trout
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.
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
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.
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
PACIFIC OCEAN AND
BEACHES: Bottomfish, surf
perch, crab
Recreational crab harvesting
is open along the entire coast
from the Columbia River to
the California border.
Bottom fishing has been
good when the ocean condi-
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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-
ery fish.
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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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-
vested daily.
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.
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