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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2017
‘Pounder’ trout stocked in Coos Bay area lakes
ROSEBURG — This week,
ODFW is stocking “pounders,”
rainbow trout averaging just
over a pound each, into Coos
Bay area lakes for a great fall
trout fishing opportunity.
The weather is cooling, but
the trout are still biting.
Within the city limits of
Coos Bay, Upper Empire Lake
Fishing
from 1B
around. Remember the limit
on streams and rivers is two
per day over 8-inches.
Anglers are reminded the
two-rod validation is only
valid while angling in standing
water bodies excluding coastal
lakes with wild coho seasons.
Two rods are prohibited on
all coastal rivers, tidewater,
estuaries and bays.
SALMON RIVER: Chinook,
trout
Fall Chinook fishing is
starting to pick up in the estu-
ary and upriver to the hatch-
ery. Trout season continues
and there should be some nice
cutthroat around. Remember
the limit on streams and rivers
is two per day over 8-inches.
Anglers are reminded the
two-rod validation is only
valid while angling in standing
water bodies excluding coastal
lakes with wild coho seasons.
Two rods are prohibited on
all coastal rivers, tidewater,
estuaries and bays.
SILETZ RIVER: Steelhead,
Chinook, trout
The Siletz River remains
open for fall Chinook and fish-
ing is starting to pick up in
tidewater.
Anglers are reminded the
two-rod validation is only
valid while angling in standing
water bodies excluding coastal
lakes with wild coho seasons.
Two rods are prohibited on all
coastal rivers, tidewater, estu-
aries and bays.
Trout remains open and
Finding
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d
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R
New
is getting 3,500 trout. Lower
Empire is choked with weeds
and has a low water level with
water temperatures too high to
safely stock rainbows. Those
fish instead will be split
between
Saunders
and
Butterfield lakes which will
each receive 1,200 trout.
Saunders Lake is about five
miles north of North Bend and
is an easily accessed place for
family fishing.
Next to the Oregon Dunes
National Recreation Area,
Butterfield Lake is accessed
through Riley Ranch County
Park. Anglers at Butterfield
Lake might also hook into a
warmouth, an unusual fish that
looks like a crappie with a bass
head
Bradley Lake, just three
miles south of Bandon and
Powers Pond are also being
stocked this week with these
pounders.
The lake rainbow trout har-
vest limit is five fish per day,
two daily limits in possession.
there should be some nice cut-
throat around. Remember the
limit on streams and rivers is
two per day over 8-inches.
WILSON RIVER: Chinook,
steelhead, trout
Fall Chinook fishing opened
on the Wilson River Sept. 16.
With the recent rains, there are
probably a few fish sneaking
in. Bobber fishing bait, back-
bouncing, back-trolling plugs
or divers and bait, or casting
spinners can all be effective
methods.
Anglers are reminded the
Wilson River is closed to
salmon angling until Dec. 31,
upstream of Jordan Creek
(River Mile 21.9).
Summer steelhead fishing
on the Wilson has been moder-
ate to slow, but there are good
numbers of fish throughout the
system.
Late September can be a
great time to target these fish
as cooler nights lower water
temps, and fish that have been
holding get more active.
Target riffles and the top of
pools during first and last
light, and concentrate on deep-
er 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 continues with
some cutthroat around, but
fishing for them in the
Wilson’s clear summer flows
can be tough. Remember, the
limit on streams and rivers is
two per day over 8 inches.
YAQUINA RIVER: Chinook,
trout
Chinook is open and with
the rain early this week fishing
is starting to pick up in tide-
water. 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.
Anglers are reminded the
two-rod validation is only
valid while angling in standing
water bodies excluding coastal
lakes with wild coho seasons.
Two rods are prohibited on all
coastal rivers, tidewater, estu-
aries and bays.
River. The bite was best a cou-
ple hours before the slack
tides.
A few wild coho have been
caught lately. There is not a
wild coho season inside Coos
Bay this year so all wild coho
must be released but anglers
may keep an adipose fin-
clipped hatchery coho.
Salmon anglers are having
the best luck trolling cut plug
herring behind a flasher.
As of Sept. 18, fishing for
lingcod, rockfish, cabezon,
greenling or other bottomfish
are closed because the quotas
for several species have been
reached.
This includes the ocean
along with bays and estuaries.
Crabbing continues to be
good for those crabbing from a
boat and from the docks in
Charleston. Crabbing has been
best near Charleston but legal
crab can be caught all the way
up the bay to the BLM boat
ramp off of the North Spit.
There was a mixture of hard
and soft shelled legal
Dungeness crab.
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.
The recreational harvest of
razor clams is CLOSED from
Cascade Head to the
California Border for elevated
levels of domoic acid.
COOS COUNTY LAKES
PONDS: Warmwater fish,
AND
trout
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.
Rainbow trout are scheduled
to be stocked in P OWERS
P OND , B RADLEY L AKE ,
B UTTERFIELD L AKE , E MPIRE
L AKES , and S AUNDERS L AKE
during the month of October.
COOS RIVER BASIN:
Dungeness crab, bay clams,
rockfish, salmon
Streams and rivers are open
to trout fishing until Oct. 31.
Anglers are allowed to use bait
in streams above tidewater.
Anglers may harvest two
trout per day that are a mini-
mum of 8 inches long.
Anglers were catching
Chinook salmon from the
BLM boat ramp in the lower
estuary up through the Coos
River and South Fork Coos
Coho recovery topic of next
Siuslaw Watershed meeting
The Siuslaw Watershed
Council General Meeting will
be a free presentation to the
public at the Oregon Lakes
Association Conference at
Driftwood Shores Inn, 88416
First Ave., in Florence.
Executive Director Dan
Carpenter will explain efforts
local partners are taking, to
restore salmon habitat in the
Siuslaw River and coastal
lakes watersheds.
He will also provide an
overview of the work of the
Oregon Lakes Association to
promote the health of lakes in
the region and across the state.
The Siuslaw River and near-
by coastal lakes once support-
ed one of the largest wild coho
runs along the Oregon Coast.
Returns of hundreds of thou-
Vikings
from 1B
10 p.m. that night Should
Siuslaw remain ranked among
the top 24 (currently they are
ranked 21st), it could still
reach post-season play with a
road game late next week.
Today, Siuslaw will play at
Sailors
from 1B
Mapleton held at least a 6-
point lead through the first half
of the set, until the Eagles
went on a pair of scoring runs
that tied the match at 18-18,
then again at 20-20.
A pair of errors from the
Lady Sailors provided the
Eagles with their first lead,
sands of adult salmon each
year in the late 1800’s precipi-
tously reduced, to less than
1,000 during the 1990’s, trig-
gering a threatened
Endangered Species Act list-
ing.
Over the past century, habi-
tat conditions have been
severely modified and degrad-
ed attributed to: clearing of
riparian areas, splash dam log-
ging, building of streamside
roads, disconnection of flood-
plains, and ditching, diking
and other stream modification
for agricultural purposes.
The
Siuslaw
Coho
Partnership are local partners
with the goal of improving
watershed health for fishes and
promote livable, and economi-
cally resilient communities.
the Marshfield Invitational in
Coos Bay.
Final rankings will be post-
ed online at www.osaa.org/
activities/vbl/rankings after 10
p.m. on Tuesday.
Should the Lady Vikings be
ranked 25th or higher,
Siuslaw’s volleyball season
will officially end.
which they carried to a 25-21
win for the set and match.
Thursday, Mapleton fell at
McKenzie in three sets, 25-15,
25-5, 25-13.
Today, Mapleton will take
on Siletz Valley at 2 p.m., fol-
lowed by a rematch with
McKenzie at 6 p.m., with the
Lady Sailors’ opponents play-
ing each other between those
matches.
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