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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2017
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SALMON RIVER: Steelhead
The Salmon River is open
for wild and hatchery steel-
head. Fishing is fair. Wild win-
ter 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, drift-
ing bait or using a bobber and
jig can be effective.
SILETZ RIVER: Steelhead
Steelhead fishing is fair.
Drift boaters are having suc-
cess 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 has been a little
slow the past week, mostly due
to the high water, but the
Wilson should be dropping
into prime shape by mid-week
and into the weekend, and
there are plenty of hatchery
and wild fish throughout the
system.
It’s always a good idea to
check the river levels before
heading out. There are still
some big fish coming off the
Wilson this year. All the usual
techniques such as side drift-
ing, float fishing, drift fishing,
or pulling plugs or divers and
bait should be effective.
During high water use brighter
colors and larger presentations.
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 steel-
head. Casting spinners, drifting
bait or using a bobber and jig
can be effective.
COOS COUNTY LAKES and
PONDS: trout
Excess hatchery steelhead
have been stocked into
Saunders Lake, Middle
Empire, and Lower Empire
lakes. Fishing regulations for
these stocked steelhead in
Empire Lakes and Saunders
Lake are just like the trout reg-
ulations: anglers can keep 1
fish over 20-inches per day
and only need their fishing
license.
Trophy trout were stocked
last week in Bradley Lake,
Empire lakes, and Johnson
Mill Pond.
Fishing for trophy trout was
good in Empire Lakes this past
week for anglers using small
spinners or using Powerbait.
ODFW is implementing a
tag reward trout study on
Empire Lakes for 2017 in
which anglers will be asked to
report tagged trout that are
caught. Anglers can report tags
on the ODFW website.
TENMILE BASIN: Trout,
bass, steelhead
Trout fishing in the streams
of the Tenmile Basin are
closed until May 22. Trout
fishing in Tenmile Lakes, Eel
Lake, Saunders Lake are open
all year.
Steelhead season is open in
Tenmile Creek and Eel Creek
until April 30. Steelhead fish-
ing has been very slow in the
Tenmile Basin. In the Tenmile
Basin, one additional hatchery
steelhead may be retained per
day for a total aggregate of
three adult fish harvested daily.
Largemouth bass fishing has
been slow but will be picking
up as the water temperatures
warm up. Anglers are catching
bass near structure or on the
deep end of the weed lines
using jigs or rubber worms.
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.
The South Umpqua will
likely be a little high for most
anglers this weekend.
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
open along the entire Oregon
coast.
Bottom fishing has been
good when the ocean condi-
tions allow. Fishing for bottom
fish is restricted to inside of
the 30-fathom curve.
Recreational harvest of
razor clams is closed on the
entire Oregon coast due to ele-
vated levels of domoic acid.
The recreational harvest of
mussels is closed from Cape
Arago (south of Coos Bay) to
the California border. 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
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O CEAN S ALMON :
The ocean recreational
Chinook salmon fishery off
Oregon is currently open from
Cape Falcon to Humbug Mt.
fthrough April 30.
Fishing effort and catch
have been slow so far.
Ocean salmon fishing sea-
sons for 2017 are still being
developed. Look for updates
on the 2017 seasons.
B OTTOM F ISHING :
When the weather allows,
fishing in the winter months
for lingcod and rockfish can be
fun and successful. The ocean
fishing is good, private boats
had about 5 rockfish per angler
and near limits of lingcod for
everyone.
Charters had near limits of
rockfish and at least one ling-
cod per angler.
R EMINDERS :
• Bottomfish is restricted to
shoreward of the 30 fathom
line (defined by waypoints).
• Cabezon season is closed;
it will reopen July 1.
M USSELS :
The recreational harvest of
mussels is open coastwide.
R AZOR C LAMS :
Razor clams remain closed
along the entire Oregon coast
due to elevated levels of
domoic acid. This includes all
beaches and bays.
B AY C LAMS :
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.
C RABBING :
Ocean and bay crabbing is
open coastwide.
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