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4 B SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2017 Fishing from 1B Siletz gorge. Casting spinners, drifting bait or using a bobber and jig can be effective. Trout season opened May 22, and there should be some nice cutthroat around. Remember the limit on streams and rivers is two per day over 8-inches. SIUSLAW RIVER: Trout Trout season opened May 22, and there should be some nice cutthroat around. Remember the limit on streams and rivers is two per day over 8-inches. WILSON RIVER: Steelhead, Spring Chinook, trout Spring Chinook fishing has been slow on the Wilson, but there should be some fish around and it should improve throughout the month. There should also be some summer steelhead in the system. Trout season opened May 22, and there should be some nice cutthroat around. Remember the limit on streams and rivers is two per day over 8-inches. YAQUINA RIVER: Trout Trout season opened May 22, and there should be some nice cutthroat around. Remember the limit on streams and rivers is two per day over 8-inches. COOS COUNTY LAKES AND PONDS: Trout, warmwater 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 excellent. 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. 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 Rose Siuslaw News + from 1B academically. “She will bring depth for us in the middle and she will do great things as a student-ath- lete in our university,” study is an effort by ODFW to compare stocking of “larg- er” trout to last year’s stock- ing of “legal” size trout. TENMILE BASIN: Trout, bass Streams and rivers are now open to trout fishing until Oct. 31. Fishing is restricted to artificial 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 con- tinue to pick up as the water temperatures warm up. Anglers are catching bass in shallow water near struc- ture or on the deep end of the weed lines using jigs or rub- ber 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 bot- tom 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 sea- sons. 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 elevated levels of domoic acid. The recreational har- vesting of mussels is open along the entire Oregon Coast from the Columbia River to the California bor- der. Before any shellfish har- vest trip, make sure to check Hambelton said. “I’m excited to see Elyssa wearing navy.” In addition to volleyball, Rose was a past member of the Viking track and field team and girls basketball team, where she led the league in blocked shots as a junior. line. The 2017 halibut quota is up 16.7 percent from 2016, which should allow for some additional 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, ground- fish retention rules — apply to all halibut anglers, regard- less 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 safety hotline at 1-800-448- 2474 before harvesting for the most current information about shellfish safety clo- sures. Additional information is available from ODA’s Food Safety Program at 503- 986-4720 or the ODA shell- fish closures website. — Mussels: The recre- ational harvest of mussels is 2150 Hwy. 101 • Florence (541) 997-3475 • 1-800-348-3475 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 coast- wide. Bay crabbing is still slow. Typically this time of year we start seeing some soft male crabs that have recently molted. Recent reports are that crabbing has been getting better in the ocean, and the best results are seen in water deeper than 100 feet. Visit us on the web T HE S IUSLAW N EWS . COM S IUSLAW N EWS Follow us on Twitter @S IUSLAW N EWS Do your part and volunteer today to help support these local non-proft organizations in our community! Volunteer•Get involved•Donate Florence Food Share provides food to those who are hungry in our community. If you have four hours a week available, we are in need of volunteers to staff our Front Desk and also act as Guides as clients walk through the pantry. Please call our volunteer coordinator, Gina Yates, @ 541-997-9110 (Monday – Friday, before noon) to learn more about volunteering. info@lorence- foodshare.org 2190 Spruce Street. Food Backpack for Kids www.backpackimpact.org Together, No Child Will Go Hungry www.backpackimpact.org Together, No Child Will Go Hungry Your tax deductible donations helped us feed 86 Florence/ Mapleton area children in May. Please mail donations to: PO Box 3347, Florence, OR 97439. For more information 541-997-2497. Assisting those in need in our Community. Free Hot Meals Mon-Wed-Fri, 11:30 AM - 1 PM NEW LOCATION SOON! HELPING HANDS COALITION United Methodist Church, 333 Kingwood, Florence Call 541-997-5057 to Volunteer Join the Peace Harbor Hospital Volunteers. You will find an area of interest in a caring organization. Peace Harbor Volunteers 400 9th Street, Florence, OR 97439 541-997-8412 ext. 209 Meals on Wheels are available to people over the age of 60 who cannot get out much due to illness or advanced age and who are not eating properly, regardless of income. Cafe 60 is available for those who prefer to make new friends in a dining room setting. Let Paul show you a new car or truck. Stop by today! www.shoppelocal.biz 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 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 mini- mum 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; 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 retaining halibut are required (1) to have onboard a func- tioning rockfish descending device, and (2) use it to descend any rockfish released when fishing outside of the 30-fathom regulatory 1570 Kingwood • PO Box 2313, Florence 541-997-5673 laneseniormeals.org Operating Monday, Wednesday and Friday Saving men one PSA test at a time. 541-997-6626 maribob@oregonfast.net Someone to talk to... who understands! To include your organization in this directory, please call us @ 541-997-3441
