SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2017
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‘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
Viks
from 1B
When the rankings were
frozen Tuesday at 10 p.m.,
Hornung, assistant coach Dan
Bartlett and the rest of the team
feverishly checked the final
standings.
And the volleyball gods deliv-
Little
from 1B
1971 —The Pacific
University Boxers beat the
Linfield Wildcats. It was my
first game starting on defense
for the Boxers. Pacific has only
defeated Linfield one time
since then.
1973—I led the NAIA in
interceptions my senior year at
Pacific University. I received
letters to try out for the Dallas
Cowboys and the San Diego
Chargers. To this day they are
Dam
from 1B
Biologists, conservationists,
anglers and others hailed the
removal of Marmot Dam as a
victory for imperiled native
runs of Chinook and coho
salmon and steelhead. The hope
was that fish would benefit
from better flows, better water
quality and unrestricted access
to prime spawning grounds in
the trout are still biting.
Within the city limits of
Coos Bay, Upper Empire Lake
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.
ered.
Ranked No. 22 meant the
Lady Viks season would continue
with a trip to Cascade High
School today.
“Now it’s time to step things
up,” said Hornung. “We definite-
ly have the potential and ability.
The girls came into the season
feeling like they could win the
league title. When we didn’t, it
was tough. But they realize we
still have an opportunity to do
something that hasn’t been done
in quite a while, which is win a
play-in game.
“None of the girls on this team
have ever advanced beyond the
first play-in game of state.”
Cascade, ranked No. 12, went
11-7 overall this season and tied
for second place in the Oregon
Western Conference at 7-3 in
league play. While the win would
certainly be considered an upset
by most standards, Hornung said
the team has a solid chance if it
just does one simple thing.
“We just need to play our
game,” Hornung said. “We just
have to focus on what we do on
our side of the court and believe.”
With a win, Siuslaw would
advance to the second round of
state play-in competition for the
first time in nearly a decade —
most likely on the road at either
Sisters or Valley Catholic.
Considering that Cascade lost
to Philomath twice this season,
and Siuslaw played Philomath
tough earlier this season, “We
know we have the potential to do
something
special,”
said
Hornung.
And maybe give something
back to the volleyball gods.
First serve for today’s play-in
game at Cascade is set for 4 p.m.
my favorite professional foot-
ball teams.
1975—I sent to Sports
Illustrated faces in the crowd
statistics of one of my Spray
High School players. This sen-
ior scored touchdowns six dif-
ferent ways and passed for
another. Alas, they chose not to
honor his gridiron feats.
1977—I am coaching at
Siuslaw High School. It is mid-
September and I glanced
towards the gymnasium from
the practice field. I saw the
moon rising for the first time in
my football career that early in
the season.
I understood then the dedica-
tion required to wear the Blue
and Gold for Coach Lutero.
1981—The seniors on this
state championship team were
3-6 during their sophomore and
junior seasons. Their theme of
“WE” contributed to the shar-
ing of responsibility on the
field. Most of us remember the
state championship game
against South Umpqua; I
remember the comeback victo-
ry over North Valley as the path
to state. Trailing 7-24 at the
half, an opening second-half
kick-off return for a touchdown
woke the crowd up.
The defense shut-out the
Knights in the second half. The
offense scored two times in the
fourth quarter to complete the
come-from-behind win, 26-24.
1985-1989—The Vikings
dominate the Far West League
with five titles in a row. This
would be the longest string of
league titles in school history.
1987-90—I coached the
Siuslaw J.V. football team to 28
straight Far West League victo-
ries.
2001—The Vikings defeat
the Reedsport Braves at Hans
Petersen Memorial Field. The
last league game played on this
field and coach Tim Dodson’s
first — of many —league titles.
2006—The Vikings go unde-
feated for the state 4A title.
The Vikings defeated Sisters in
overtime. Coach Dodson now
has the distinction of winning a
state title as a player and coach
at Siuslaw.
2014—The Marshfield play-
ers tilted the field in Far West
League game on Oct. 10, 2014.
Their roster needed two pages.
The Vikings were defeated
that night 28-29 in overtime,
but three weeks later Siuslaw
traveled to Marshfield in a
rematch in the first round of the
state play-offs — and won 14-0
to make the quarter finals in
state.
the uppermost reaches of the
river.
So has 10 years of a free-
flowing Sandy River been good
for fish?
The answer is an unqualified
“yes,” according to Todd
Alsbury, ODFW district fish
biologist for the Sandy, and one
of the partners in the removal
of Marmot Dam.
For the past three years,
when other runs of salmon and
steelhead around the region
have been down, the Sandy has
been seeing increasingly strong
returns; in some cases, double
what they were a decade ago
before Marmot Dam was
removed.
“While not solely due to dam
removal, returns of wild spring
Chinook, winter steelhead, and
coho have increased signifi-
cantly as compared to their
abundance before the dam was
removed,” said Alsbury, who
noted that in the 10 years since
Marmot Dam was removed
ODFW has observed the largest
returns for all three species in
the 40 years.
For example, the number of
wild spring Chinook increased
from an average of 809 before
dam removal to 2,086 after-
wards.
Similarly, coho increased
from 784 returning fish before
dam removal to 1,959 after-
ward, and wild winter steelhead
increased from 898 to 2,757.
To really gauge how success-
ful removal has been, though, it
helps to look at how the fish
were doing prior to removal of
the dam. Wild spring Chinook
were nearly extirpated in the
1950s and ’60s by dam opera-
tions, habitat losses, and other
human impacts.
During this period, fishery
managers tried to rebuild the
population with hatchery
Chinook, which were intercept-
ed in a trap at Marmot Dam and
trucked to Sandy Fish
Hatchery, where the next gen-
eration of fish was spawned
and reared.
Fishing
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
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.
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
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. This
includes all beaches and all
bays.
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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.
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,
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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
COQUILLE RIVER BASIN:
Crab, trout, smallmouth bass,
salmon
Streams and rivers are now
open to trout fishing until Oct.
31. Anglers are allowed to use
bait in streams above tidewa-
ter. Anglers may harvest 2
trout per day that are a mini-
mum of 8 inches long.