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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2017
Fishing
from 1B
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
The Wilson is in decent
shape, but is starting to get
pretty clear. Steelhead should
be winding down, and the
catch definitely dropped off
last week.
On the up side, summer
steelhead should be showing
up by the end of the month.
YAQUINA RIVER:
Steelhead
The Yaquina River and Big
Elk Cr. closed for steelhead on
April 1 to protect spawning
wild steelhead.
COOS COUNTY LAKES
PONDS: Trout
AND
Trout were recently stocked
in Bradley Lake, Empire
Lakes, Butterfield Lake, Eel
Lake, Saunders Lake,
Tenmile Lakes, Powers Pond
and Sru Lake.
The road to Bluebill Lake
is closed due to flooding and
the lake has not been stocked.
Anglers are having success
catching trout using small
spinners or Powerbait.
Trout have been stocked in
the Millicoma Pond at the
Millicoma Interpretive Center
and fishing is excellent for
young children.
Millicoma Pond is intended
for children under the age of
12. Please call before traveling
to Millicoma Pond to make
sure the gates are open. The
phone number is (541)267-
2557.
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. Some
of the tags will be worth a $50
gift card. This study is an
effort by ODFW to compare
stocking of “larger” trout to
last year’s stocking of “legal”
size trout.
COOS RIVER BASIN:
Dungeness crab, bay clams,
rockfish
Trout fishing in streams is
closed until May 22, 2017.
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
(2). 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/ cop-
per rockfishes to the sub-bag
limit with blue/Deacon rock-
fish and change the limit from
3 to 4.
• Remove the 10-inch mini-
mum size for kelp greenling.
Retention of cabezon is not
allowed until July 1.
Recreational crabbing is
open inside the Coos Bay estu-
ary. Crabbing has been good
one day and slow the next day
in Coos Bay. Even when crab-
bing is good, crabbers will
need to sort through lots of
crab to get a limit.
Recreational harvest of bay
clams remains open along the
entire Oregon coast.
Clamming is excellent during
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 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 shellfish harvest
trip, make sure to check the
Oregon Department of
Agriculture website for any
updates.
UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH:
Closed
The South Umpqua is
closed from May 1 through
May 22 to protect migrating
fish..
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.
Largemouth bass fishing has
been good and will continue to
pick up as the water tempera-
tures warm up.
Anglers are catching bass in
shallow water near structure or
on the deep end of the weed
lines using jigs or rubber
worms.
WINCHESTER BAY:
Bottomfish, perch
Fishing for bottom fish in
the Triangle and South jetty
has been successful.
Columbia River 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
worms.
NOTICE: Razor clams
remain closed along the entire
Oregon coast due to elevated
levels of domoic acid. This
includes all beaches and bays.
O CEAN S ALMON :
The Cape Falcon to
Humbug Mt. Chinook salmon
recreational fishing season is
open until Oct. 31. This season
is open for all salmon except
coho salmon, with a bag limit
of two salmon per day, and
minimum sizes for Chinook at
24 inches or larger, and steel-
head at 20 inches or larger.
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
now restricted to inside the 30-
fathom curve. A few black
rockfish have been seen feed-
ing on/near the surface recent-
ly.
Recreational harvest of
razor clams is closed on the
entire Oregon coast due to ele-
vated levels of domoic acid.
The recreational harvesting
of mussels is open along the
entire Oregon Coast from the
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