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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2017
Fishing
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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