SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JUNE 3 2017
STEP program works with students to raise ‘smarter fish’
Each year, the Florence
Salmon Trout Enhancement
Program (STEP) places aquari-
ums with chillers into several
Florence and Mapleton area
schools.
The aquariums are put into
Siuslaw Elementary School,
Mapleton Schools and Triangle
Lake Schools. Each aquarium
is stocked with steelhead eggs
from the STEP Whittaker creek
trap. These eyed-up eggs con-
tinue to develop and soon hatch
into steelhead fry.
These fry depend on the
classroom students to keep
track of their development.
Students must check water
temperatures,
temperature
units and keep the tanks clean.
“Since these fries are raised
in schools they must be smarter
than fry raised in the wild,”
jokes STEP president Ron
Caputo.
After 30 days in school, the
young fry are released one at a
time by first-grades classes into
nearby lakes and streams.
Fishing
from 1B
Remember the limit on
streams and rivers is two per
day over 8-inches.
COOS COUNTY LAKES
PONDS: Trout, warmwater
AND
fish
Largemouth bass fishing has
been good in many of the area
smaller lakes. Bluegills can be
found in area lakes right along
the weed lines.
Trout were stocked in the
Millicoma Pond at the
Millicoma Interpretive Center
and fishing should be excel-
lent. Millicoma Pond is intend-
ed for children under the age
of 12.
F REE
5 B
SPORTS PHYSICALS
BEING OFFERED NEXT WEEK
COURTESY PHOTO
On Wednesday, June 7, PeaceHealth Medical Group in
Florence will be partnering with the Florence and Mapleton
school districts to provide sports physicals to students.
Sports physicals are required in order for youths grades
six through 12 to participate in extracurricular sports.
The exams are critical to safe sports participation: they
can screen athletes for potential illness or conditions that
may limit or restrict their ability to participate in a sport, or
conditions that may be aggravated by intense exercise.
During Sports Physical Day, students will receive a
“Sports Pre-Participation Examination.”
PeaceHealth Medical Group is contributing medical sup-
plies and the time and expertise of five providers and 10
medical assistants to complete these physicals, which
include height, weight, blood pressure, an eye chart exam
and an examination by a provider.
It also includes a health history questionnaire which asks
about the student's medical history of injury, illness and
conditions to help ensure any and all conditions are being
properly addressed.
Sports physicals can be obtained during Sports Physical
Day at Siuslaw Middle School at no cost to students.
Sports physical forms are available at the student’s
school and must be completed and signed by the student’s
parent and/or guardian upon arrival to Sports Physical Day.
Students at Triangle Lake Elementary School study an aquarium of steelhead fry.
Please call before traveling
to Millicoma Pond to make
sure the gates are open. The
phone number is 541-267-
2557.
Trout have been stocked
into Empire Lakes and
Tenmile Lakes this week.
Trophy trout were only
stocked into Upper Empire
Lake This was the last trout
stocking in the area until
October.
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.
TENMILE BASIN: Trout,
bass
Streams and rivers are now
open to trout fishing until Oct.
31. Fishing is restricted to arti-
ficial flies and lures in streams
above tidewater. Anglers may
harvest 2 trout per day that are
a minimum of 8 inches long.
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.
UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH:
Trout, bass
The South opened on May
22 to trout and warmwater
fishing.
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, salmon, halibut
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
feeding on/near the surface
recently.
Recreational Chinook
salmon fishing is open from
Cape Falcon to Humbug
Mountain. Anglers may have
two salmon per day but is
closed to retention of coho
except during the selective and
non-selective coho seasons.
The selective coho season
opens June 24 and continues
through July 31 or until the
18,000 marked coho quota has
been met.
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
240
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 Berkley Gulp sand
worms. Fishing is typically
best on the incoming tide.
• O CEAN SALMON :
The Cape Falcon to
Humbug Mt. Chinook salmon
recreational fishing season is
scheduled to be 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 steelhead at 20
inches or larger.
Ocean Chinook fishing
effort and catch have been
slow so far this season; how-
ever, some ocean Chinook
were landed in Garibaldi and
Winchester Bay last week.
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.
• P ACIFIC H ALIBUT :
Vessels fishing for or retain-
ing halibut are required (1) to
have onboard a functioning
rockfish descending device,
and (2) use it to descend any
rockfish released when fishing
outside of the 30-fathom regu-
latory line.
The 2017 halibut quota is up
16.7 percent from 2016, which
should allow for some addi-
tional fishing days, depending
on weather and catch rates.
Central Oregon Coast
Subarea (Cape Falcon to
Humbug Mt.): The all-depth
halibut fishery will be open
June 8-10 and June 15-17. If
quota remains after those
dates, additional days may be
available every other week.
The nearshore fishery
opened June 1, seven days per
week, until the quota is caught
or Oct. 31. Note that when
both the nearshore and all-
depth halibut fisheries are
open on the same day, e.g.,
regulations for the all-depth
fishery — namely, groundfish
retention rules — apply to all
halibut anglers, regardless of
where fishing occurs.
The summer all-depth fish-
ery opens Friday, Aug. 4, and
every other Friday-Saturday
until the quota is caught or
Oct. 31.
• 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-
4720 or the ODA shellfish clo-
sures website.
— Mussels: The recreation-
al harvest of mussels is open
coastwide.
— Razor Clams: Remains
closed along the entire Oregon
coast due to elevated levels of
domoic acid. This includes all
beaches and bays.
— Bay Clams: 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.
— Crabbing: Ocean and bay
crabbing is open coastwide.
Bay crabbing is still slow.
Typically this time of year we
start seeing some soft male
crabs that have recently molt-
ed.
Recent reports are that crab-
bing has been getting better in
the ocean, and the best results
are seen in water deeper than
100 feet.
HOURS
Is your family prepared?
If an emergency happens in your community,
it may take emergency workers some time to reach you.
You should be prepared to take care of yourself and
your family for a minimum of 240 hours.
Get your emergency fi rst aid kit started with these essentials:
❑ First aid manual
❑ Aspirin or pain relievers
❑ Laxatives, diarrhea medicine
❑ Rubbing alcohol, petroleum jelly
❑ Soap, salt, baking soda
❑ Sanitary napkins, matches
❑ Triangular bandages
❑ Elastic bandages, pressure dressings
❑ Cotton balls, disposable diapers
❑ Scissors, needles, tweezers
❑ Popsicle sticks, splints, heavy string
❑ Thermometer, paper tape
❑ Syrup of Ipecac
❑ Personal prescription medications
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