NED HICKSON , SPORTS EDITOR
❘ 541-902-3523 ❘
SPORTS @ THESIUSLAWNEWS . COM
SATURDAY EDITION
❘ JUNE 30, 2018 ❘
SECTION B
Siuslaw News
Sports & Recreation
Time
Out
Summer softball in full swing
S PORTS
Calendar
Upcoming:
By Lloyd Little
July 19-21
Retired teacher, coach
and game offi cial
• SHS Mini
Football Camp
at SHS
TBA
With more than55 years as an
athlete, coach, parent and
spectator, Lloyd Little has
gained some insights and
perspectives regarding athletic
s. In this weekly column, he
shares what he's learned about
sports from his multiple
points of view.
July 21
• Sand Master Jam
Sandbording
Sand Master park
2-5 p.m.
“It Ain’t Over”
T
he NFL, NBA,
WNBA and the
NHL all use time
to determine the outcome
of their games. Th ere have
certainly been some fantas-
tic fi n-ishes in games.
Th e New England Patri-
ots trailed the Atlanta Fal-
cons 28-3 late in the third
quarter before ultimately
winning 34-28 in overtime.
Th at was a great comeback.
Major League Baseball,
Aug. 4
• Rotary "Cool at
the Coast"
golf tourney
Aug. 6-10
SHS XC
Dunes Camp
East Woahink
Day Use Area
9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
See
On the
Bite
T IDE T ABLE
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
LITTLE 2B
A WEEKLY
Low Tide
FISHING REPORT FOR THE
June 30
1:27am / 7.0
3:06pm / 7.3
LOCAL REGION
8:29am /-0.9
8:26pm / 2.8
www.dfw.state.or.us/RR
PHOTOS BY NED HICKSON/SIUSLAW NEWS
July 1
2:03am / 6.7
3:43pm / 5.9
The Florence Adult Softball League is underway
and continues each Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. and
7 p.m. through August, with a two-day tourna-
ment Aug. 21 and 22. Games are played at Miller
Park on the south fields and are open to the
public. For more information, visit www.flor
enceadultsoftballleague.atomicleagues.com
9:39am /-0.7
9:07pm / 2.8
July 2
2:41am / 6.4
4:21pm / 5.9
9:39am /-0.5
9:52pm / 2.8
July 3
3:22am / 6.0
5:00pm/ 5.9
10:16am / -0.1
10:43pm/ 2.7
GOLFERS TO BE ‘C OOL AT THE
C OAST ’ A UG . 4
Money raised from annual event will go to worldwide campaign to end polio
July 4
4:09am / 5.7
5:40pm / 6.0
10:54am / 0.3
11:41pm / 2.5
July 5
5:05am / 5.2
6:23pm / 6.1
11:36am / 0.8
July 6
6:14am / 4.8
7:07pm / 6.4
12:45am / 2.1
12:24pm / 1.2
S IUSLAW
N EWS
148 Maple St.
Florence
541-997-3441
When golfers tee off at Ocean Dunes
for the Rotary Club of Florence’s ninth
annual “Cool at the Coast” golf tourna-
ment on Saturday, Aug. 4, they won't
just be playing golf; they will be partic-
ipating in a worldwide initiative to
eliminate polio from the planet.
Thanks to a global partnership
between the World Health Organization
(WHO), the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation and Rotary International,
polio has been nearly eradicated. Polio
cases have decreased by over 99 percent
since 1988, from an estimated 350,000
cases in more than 125 endemic coun-
tries then, down to 22 reported cases in
three countries in 2017.
In 1952, Jonas Salk first tested the
polio vaccine and mass immunizations
began to spread across the country. By
1957, the number of polio cases in the
United States dropped from 58,000 to
just 5,600. Polio has not been seen in
this country since 1979.
The Rotary Club of Florence’s ninth
annual golf event will raise funds for
the Rotary International’s “End Polio
Now Campaign” and many other
Florence community projects.
In addition to raising funds for good
causes, “Cool at the Coast” has gained a
reputation for a great day of golf, cool
prizes, good food and always spectacu-
lar weather.
Sponsors this year include: All State
Agency Owner, Bob Garcia, 2018 grand
“hole-in-one” sponsor; Oregon Pacific
Bank; PeaceHealth; Banner Bank;
Coldwell Banker/Coast Real Estate; Dr.
Brian Holmes and Dr. Justin Linton is
the event’s 2018 Platinum Sponsors.
The ninth annual “Cool at the Coast”
tournament will start with the
See
Beat the heat with
high lakes trout
fishing
Legal-size trout are still
being stocked in lakes at
high elevations — and cool-
er temperatures. In addi-
tion, ODFW stocks hun-
dreds of hike-in lakes for
backcountry anglers. Learn
more about high lakes fish-
ing.
Switch your fishing focus
to bass and warmwater
As water temperatures heat
up and trout become lethar-
gic, it’s time to focus on
some bass, walleye, bluegill,
yellow perch and other
warmwater species. Check
out the zone reports for all
the opportunities.
MID COAST LAKES:
Mid coast lakes stocking
schedule for this year is
posted online. Stocking of
mid coast lakes began in
February.
GOLF 2B
See
FISHING 3B
Daily fishing bag limit rsducsd starting July 1
NEWPORT — The daily bag limit
for general marine fish (rockfish,
greenlings, skates, etc.) will be reduced
from 5 to 4 beginning July 1.
“Participation in this fishery has
been really good so far this year with
effort higher than even record years
seen in two of the past three years,”
said Lynn Mattes, Project Leader,
ODFW. “Reducing the bag limit to 4
fish on July 1 is necessary to keep
black rockfish, other nearshore rock-
fish and yelloweye rockfish catches
within annual limits.”
Cabezon retention also opens on
July 1 with a 1-fish sub-bag limit
(meaning that of the 4-fish marine
bag, no more than 1 can be a cabe-
zon). Bag limits for lingcod, flatfish
and the longleader fishery remain the
same.
Anglers this year made 40,619 bot-
tomfish trips through May (17,750 in
May alone), compared to 24,080 for
January through May last year, which
until 2018 was the highest effort year
on record. Angler effort is only expect-
ed to increase as summer fishing
peaks.
Last year, recreational bottomfish
closed on Sept. 18 after the annual
quotas for several species were met
early, the first in-season closure since
2004. The closure disrupted coastal
charter businesses and anglers.
(Typically, recreational bottomfish
fishing is open all year, though effort
significantly drops off after early fall.)
ODFW has been working to avoid
another early closure this year by pro-
viding effort and catch rates at more
frequent intervals and modeling
impacts of various bag limit scenarios.
The Fish and Wildlife Commission
heard testimony from coastal sport-
fishing businesses before deciding on
the 5-fish bag limit when it set regula-
tions back in December, with the
understanding that in-season adjust-
ments could be necessary to keep the
season open through the end of the
year.
Get the latest on marine fishing
regulations and opportunities at www.
myodfw.com/recreation-report/fish-
ing -report/marine-zone.