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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, May 13, 2017
Crown
from 1B
Northwest, pitting him against
wrestlers from as far away as
Washington,
Idaho
and
California.
“Joel understands the basic
principle of wrestling hard and
coming out on top,” said Buss.
“He
doesn’t
complicate
things.”
Fishing
from 1B
shape. Steelhead should be
winding down but there was
still some good fishing last
week, although mostly for
wild steelhead.
YAQUINA RIVER:
Steelhead
The Yaquina River and Big
Elk Cr. are closed for steel-
head fishing to protect spawn-
ing wild steelhead.
COOS RIVER BASIN:
Dungeness crab, bay clams,
rockfish, steelhead
Trout fishing in streams is
closed until May 22.
Most anglers have stopped
fishing for steelhead in the
Coos Basin. Rivers in the
Coos basin are open to steel-
head fishing until April 30.
Anglers fishing the South Fork
Coos River above Dellwood
will need a permit from
Weyerhaeuser.
In the Coos basin, one addi-
tional hatchery steelhead may
be retained per day for a total
aggregate of three adult fish
harvested daily.
Anglers are still catching a
few rockfish and surfperch
along the jetties and sub-
merged rock piles. Fishing for
rockfish in the bay has been
spotty. The marine fish daily
bag limit for bottom fish
(rockfish) is seven fish and a
separate daily limit for lingcod
(two).
The 7 fish marine bag limit
will remain in place, with
these adjustments for 2017:
Create a sub-bag limit of 6
black rockfish, remove the
sub-bag limit for canary rock-
fish, Add China/quillback/
copper rockfishes 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
open inside the Coos Bay estu-
ary. Crabbing has been slow in
Coos Bay but crabbers will
need to sort through several
short crab to find keepers.
Recreational harvest of bay
clams remains open along the
entire Oregon coast.
Clamming is excellent dur-
ing 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
Sissel said his approach to
wrestling in any format is a
simple one.
“I just like getting physical
with people,” he said, a state-
ment that seems to contradict
his easy-going nature.
“On the mats, Joel is a beast.
he goes after it,” said Buss.
Whatever Sissel attributes to
his success, the sixth grader
went from not placing at all last
season to winning every match
during last weekend’s OWA
Freestyle and Greco divisions
by either a technical fall (ahead
by 10 points) or an outright pin.
In the Greco championship,
Sissel faced defending champi-
on Jared Scott.
“He was the guy to beat,”
said Sissel.
Things didn’t start out well
in the opening rounds against
Scott, who got a takedown on
Sissel for a 2-0 lead in the sec-
ond round.
But Sissel went into “beast
mode,” holding Scott scoreless
for the remainder of the match
while piling on 12 points to win
the title by technical fall, 12-2.
With summer vacation on
the horizon, does Sissel plan to
relax?
No way.
“There are wrestling camps
this summer, so I’ll be busy,”
said Sissel.
Buss echoed that sentiment
with some words of wisdom.
“Summer and fall wrestlers
make winter winners,” said
Buss. “It’s going to be exciting
to see what Joel does from
here.”
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 shell-
fish harvest trip, make sure to
check the Oregon Department
of Agriculture website for any
updates.
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
Chinook salmon fishery off
Oregon is currently open from
Cape Falcon to Humbug Mt.
Fishing effort and catch have
been slow so far.
B OTTOM F ISHING :
When the weather allows,
fishing during the winter and
spring months for lingcod and
rockfish can be fun and suc-
cessful. Last week there were
several reports of blue-colored
lingcod being caught along the
central coast.
These blue-colored lingcod,
sometimes called “Smurf ling-
cod” are safe to eat, the flesh
turns white when cooked, and
tastes the same as normal col-
ored lingcod. The blue col-
oration comes from a bile pig-
ment called biliverdin (also
responsible for some of the
coloration when people get a
bruise), but how or why this
pigment gets into the tissue of
lingcod is unknown, though
may have something to do
with what the lingcod is eat-
ing.
S URFPERCH :
Surfperch are a diverse
group of fish that provide a
variety of angling opportuni-
ties.
Striped seaperch are found
year-round in rocky areas like
jetties; and ocean surf is the
place to find redtail surfperch
and silver perch.
The bag limit for surfperch
is generous at 15 per day.
However, a lot remains
unknown about the status of
surfperch populations off the
Oregon Coast, so, as usual,
take only what you will use.
UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH:
Steelhead
Anglers are still hooking
into a few hatchery 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.
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. Anglers have been
catching trout in Eel and
Tenmile lakes trolling wedding
ring spinners tipped with a
worm.
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.
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