SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2017
Free
from 1B
events and State Parks is waiv-
ing park admission and camp-
ing fees in many parks on
“State Parks Day” Saturday,
June 3.
For the do-it-yourselfer there
are hundreds of lakes and
rivers, and hundreds of miles of
coastline to explore. ODFW’s
extensive website offers infor-
mation about how and where to
fish for trout, bass, steelhead
and surfperch, to name a few.
Anglers will find:
• The Learn to Fish (www.
dfw.state.or.us/resources/fish
ing/learn_to_fish.asp) page
describes what you’ll need,
how to do it and where to go.
Fishing
from 1B
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
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
• Weekly updates of current
fishing conditions in the
Weekly Recreation Report are
available at www.dfw.state.or.
us/RR/index.asp.
• Great spots to take the fam-
ily fishing in Easy Angling
Oregon can be found at www
.dfw.state.or.us/resources/fish-
ing/easy_angling.
• Trout stocking schedules
are available at www.dfw.state
.or.us/resources/fishing/trout_
stocking_schedules.
For the new angler, ODFW
and its partners will be spon-
soring Free Fishing Weekend
events throughout the state. At
most events there will be free
fishing equipment first-time
anglers can use.
Volunteers will be available
to help, from baiting the hook
to landing the catch. For a com-
plete list of events with times
and locations, go to the ODFW
website at www.dfw.state.or
.us/education/angling/free_fish
ing.asp.
“Even if you’ve never cast a
line or baited a hook, we can
show you how to fish,” Gauvin
said.
The following scheduled
Free Fishing Weekend events
will take place on Saturday,
June 3, unless otherwise noted.
Near Florence, Cleawox
Lake/Honeyman State Park,
will host its annual Free
Fishing Day on Saturday, June
3, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Contact Christine Clapp at
541-265-8306, ext. 253.
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.
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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:
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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.
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
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.
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Sports physical forms are
available at the student’s
school and must be completed
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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.
Ocean Chinook fishing
effort and catch have been
slow so far this season. Most
anglers are concentrating on
bottomfish for now, particular-
ly on the central coast.
Just a reminder: Anglers are
restricted to no more than two
single point barbless hooks
when fishing for salmon, and
when fishing for any other
species if a salmon is on board
the vessel.
B OTTOM F ISHING :
When the weather allows,
fishing during the spring
months for lingcod and rock-
fish can be fun and successful.
In recent weeks anglers
have had decent luck limiting
on lingcod and close to limits
on rockfish.
Recent reports from
Charleston and Brookings say
the bottomfishing has been
really good.
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.
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-
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sures website.
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