SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017
Fishing
from 1B
the Wilson River and is fair.
There are fish throughout the
system, and fresh fish are
still coming in. Target riffles
and the top of pools during
first and last light, and con-
centrate on deeper holding
pools once the sun is on the
water.
Fishing stealthy, with light
gear, and targeting first and
last light is often the key to
success with these fish.
Trout season is open 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 is open 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
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.
A few anglers are still
catching a few trout in both
Lower and Upper Empire
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August 19 & 20, 2017
Florence Events Center
715 Quince Street, Florence, OR
Saturday, 9-5 • Sunday 9-4
Florence
Coin Show
Lakes using PowerBait or
trolling a spinner in the deep-
er water.
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 “larg-
er” trout to last year’s stock-
ing of “legal” size trout.
PACIFIC OCEAN and
BEACHES: Bottomfish, surf
perch, crab, salmon, halibut
Recreational crabbing is
open along the entire Oregon
coast.
The nearshore halibut sea-
son (inside 40 fathoms) is
now open seven days a week
except when there are All
Depth Halibut days. The next
Sat 8/19
8am-1pm
2224 Primrose Lane
Misc. household items, non-profit.
Coins & Collectibles
• Free Appraisals
• Submit your coins
to ANACS for grading
Thurs-Sat 8/17-8/19
8am-4pm
543 Myeena Loop,
Huge Estate Sale!
Lots of everything!
All Depth Halibut days are
August 4-5. As of July 9,
there is 43 percent of the
Nearshore quota remaining.
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
is open and will remain open
until July 31 or until the
18,000 marked coho quota
has been met. Anglers have
reported catching both
Chinook salmon and hatch-
ery coho in the Charleston
area early last week.
As of July 9, there is 94
percent of the selective coho
salmon quota remaining.
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Quality Furniture, tools, surfboards,
Home décor, kitchenware.
Great selection!
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Fri-Sat 8/18-8/19
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3 B
closed along the entire
Oregon coast due to elevated
levels of domoic acid. This
includes all beaches and
bays.
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
• The Central Oregon
Coast Pacific halibut spring
all-depth fishery is now
closed.
• Mussels are closed from
Tillamook Head (just north
of Cannon Beach) to Cascade
Head (just north of Lincoln
City).
O CEAN S ALMON
Ocean Chinook fishing
effort and catch have been
slow so far this season; how-
ever, some ocean Chinook
were landed in Garibaldi,
Pacific City, Florence, and
Winchester Bay last week.
The Selective Coho (fin-
clipped) season between
Cape Falcon and Humbug
Mountain opened on June 24
and will run through the ear-
lier of July 31 or an 18,000
marked coho quota. The bag
limit is two salmon per day,
and all coho must have a
healed adipose fin clip.
Best success was observed
for anglers fishing out of
Florence, Winchester Bay
and Charleston. Most salmon
being encountered are coho
at all ports. Indications are
that coho salmon will be
moving up the coast in the
next few weeks with expecta-
tions for better catches in
more northerly ports from
Newport to Garibaldi.
B OTTOM F ISHING
Bottomfish fishing contin-
ues to be good out of most
ports along the coast. Anglers
were averaging close to one
lingcod and four rockfish per
trip. Remember to know and
understand the new bag lim-
its (see below).
New bag and sub-bag lim-
its for 2017: To stay within
Federal allocations, and try to
provide for year-round fish-
ing opportunities, there are
some changes to daily bag
limits. Canary rockfish has
been declared rebuilt and is
now part of the 7 fish marine
bag limit (no sub-bag limit).
Black rockfish have a sub-
bag limit of 6 fish (out of the
7 fish daily bag, no more
than 6 may be black rock-
fish). There is a 4 fish sub-
bag limit for blue/deacon,
China, copper, and quillback
rockfish combined (out of the
7 fish marine bag, no more
than 4 may be these species
combined).
P ACIFIC H ALIBUT
In 2017 vessels fishing for
or retaining 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 regulatory
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.
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