2B | WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2019 | SIUSLAW NEWS
Three Rivers Casino to host inaugural ‘Dare To Care’ golf tourney
Three Rivers Casino will host
the first-ever “Dare To Care” golf
tournament Tuesday, Sept. 10, at
the Ocean Dunes Golf Course in
Florence.
All proceeds from the tourna-
ment will go to the Three Rivers
Fishing
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weekend. Anglers can
walk/bike in the road
during the weekdays. If
anglers do walk in they
can park at the one mile
gate and start from there.
Trout fishing is open on
the Siletz. Check the regu-
lations for open areas and
gear re-strictions.
WILSON RIVER:
Steelhead, Chinook, cut-
throat trout
The summer steelhead
run is starting on the
Wilson River and a few
fish have been caught.
There should be fish start-
ing to disperse throughout
the basin. The run will
improve through June, and
fish will be available
throughout the summer.
Sand
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are how many teenagers
that live here?” Beale asked.
“But something about
sandboarding
hasn’t
clicked with them. So, we
have to pull a lot of
pro-sandboarders from
other states. If you’re hav-
ing an international com-
petition, those guys would
probably just come to see
the level of competition at
the time. But I have
requests from the South
Americans to bring teams
up here. But we’re not at
that level yet. They would
come up here and say,
‘That’s not a pro event.’ So
we do it at the level that’s
desired.”
One reason is probably
the carefree culture of
sandboarders.
“They don’t want to have
all the stress and all the
pressure of having to com-
pete. … If you go down to
Honeyman in the middle
of summer, you’ll see 150
boards out on the dunes,
and everybody is riding.
But if you address anyone
of them about competing,
they say, ‘Nah, we’re just
having fun.’”
If there is one form of
competition that could
help catapult the sport into
a major player, it’s jumps.
Beale helped set up a
pro-level jump competi-
tion at Three Rivers Casino
Resort, “and the guys liked
that,” he said. “You need a
good location to have a
jump. That’s probably more
attractive than just doing
slalom or rail slides or what
we would do on our dunes.
“The jumps seem to be
more appealing to the pros
than anything else.”
As to bringing X-Games
to Florence for jump com-
petitions, Beale said that it
could be possible, but that
some work has to be done.
It couldn’t be done in state
parks due to restrictions,
and Sand Master Park
would not be able to house
it because of the size of the
Casino
Resort
Employee
Emergency Assistance Fund.
“We have incredible employees
at Three Rivers,” said Rich
Colton, director of marketing for
Three Rivers Casino. “This tour-
nament is just one way we are
working to make sure our
employees are supported in the
same way that they take care of
all our guests who visit Three
Rivers.”
The tournament is set to start
at 11 a.m. Teams, partial teams
and individuals can sign up using
the entry form online at www.
threeriverscasino.com.
Partial teams and individuals
will be put into full teams by the
tournament committee prior to
the start of the tournament.
In addition to the tournament,
participants will receive gift bags
and can enter into a 50/50 raffle.
For more information about the
tournament, course details and
tournament entry information,
visit www.threeriverscasino.com.
Bobber fishing with jigs/
bait/beads, casting lures,
and drift fishing are great
techniques to catch a sum-
mer steelhead.
The river is low and
clear, so fishing light tackle
and starting early are keys
to success in this fishery.
Trout fishing in streams
is open. Fishing should be
fair to good throughout
the river.
YAQUINA RIVER:
Cutthroat trout
Trout fishing in streams
has opened.
TENMILE LAKES:
Trout, warmwater species,
largemouth bass
Conditions should be
prime for bass, crappie,
bluegill, and brown bull-
head catfish fishing at this
time. Anglers also use
small jigs or a worm on a
hook fished near the bot-
tom to catch yellow perch.
The Tenmile Lakes have
been stocked with legal-
size rainbow trout.
Tenmile Lakes provide
some nice holdover trout
this time of year, and some
can measure over 17-inch-
es long. Try trolling slowly
with a spinner or spoon,
tipped with a worm, to
catch these larger trout.
Trout fishing may slow
down with warmer weath-
er, as the summer pro-
gresses.
UMPQUA RIVER,
SOUTH: Trout, bass,
warmwater
Some stretches of the
South are closed to fishing
still. Please consult the
fishing regulations for
more info. Trout fishing in
the entire basin is catch-
and-release only. Bass fish-
ing has been good
throughout.
WINCHESTER BAY:
Bottomfish, perch
Fishing in the Triangle
and South jetty has been
successful.
PACIFIC OCEAN
AND BEACHES:
Bottomfish, salmon, hali-
but, surfperch
Bottomfishing has been
good when the ocean lays
down and anglers have
been able to make it out.
Bottomfishing is
restricted to inside the
40-fathom regulatory line.
Fishing for lingcod and
rockfish has been good
when the ocean is calm
enough to fish. The daily
bag limit for ma-rine fish
is 5 plus 2 lingcod. The
retention of cabezon is
closed until July 2019.
Anglers may also
choose to fish the offshore
longleader fishery outside
of the 40-fathom regulato-
ry line, which is open
year-round. The longlead-
er fishery has a daily bag
limit of 10 fish made of
yellowtail, widow, canary,
blue, deacon, redstripe,
greenstripe, silvergray, and
bocaccio rockfish. No
other groundfish are
allowed and offshore long-
leader fishing trips can-not
be combined with tradi-
tional bottomfish, flatfish
or halibut trips. Find
information about a long-
leader setup here.
Ocean salmon fishing
for Chinook salmon from
Cape Falcon to Humbug
Mt is open. Chinook must
be a minimum of 24-inch-
es long. The ocean is now
open to fin-clipped coho
salmon.
RAZOR CLAMS:
For the Central Coast
area, diggers have been
able to harvest limits on
some specific sand-bars,
but until the beaches build
up through the spring, the
flat sandy areas with a
good abundance of clams
will be accessible only at
tide levels well below 0.0.
Diggers report mixed suc-
cess at Newport beaches as
well as difficulty seeing
shows at times.
CRAB:
Crabbing in the Coos
Bay estuary and lower
Coquille estuary have been
limited. Crabbing by boat
and setting pots near the
jetties yields the most crab.
dunes.
“My dunes aren’t that
big,” Beale said. “They’re
maybe 100 verticle feet.
When you have a pro com-
petition, you want to have
about 400 feet of run. That
allows you to get enough
gates in slalom, and enough
run off to a jump, and run
out. That’s critical, you
can’t just jump and land
flat, you need to land on a
slope to keep it safe.
“The dunes in city limits
are not big enough.”
The casino run could
work, if there was some
modifications.
“That would be some-
thing to sit down with the
casino and ask if they could
grow the slope and make it
a permanent sandboard
structure where people
could sandboard every day,
and have an event the mag-
nitude of X-Games,” Beale
said. “We have talked about
that in the past, but things
are constantly changing. If
they said, ‘Yeah, let’s do
something,’ we’d make it
happen.”
If Beale was able to get a
good location, he sees
Florence as being a hub for
competition in the U.S.
“I’d invite the South
Americans and the Middle
Easterns and Australians to
compete, and then I think
we could see that kind of
level of competition here in
Florence,” he said. But for
right now, Beale has a lot
on his plate.
He is still working to
make sandboarding a glob-
al sport, with particular
focus in the past few years
in the Middle East. In 2013,
the Egyptian government
hired Beale and his crew to
build a sandboard program
there, with sites set on
world class competitions
and championships.
“They’ve got plenty of
sand, so they wanted sand-
boarding,” he said. “So we
went over there for two
weeks. Met with the gov-
ernment, drew up some
plans. They took us every-
where. It was incredible.
We had an armed entou-
rage taking us all over
Egypt. We did that, it
looked really good. Picked
up a couple of customers,
and then, three months
later — the revolution hap-
pened and the whole thing
got dumped. Everyone was
overthrown, the people we
were dealing with lost their
jobs.”
After the revolution
occured, Egyptians came
to Florence for a summer,
learning about sandboard-
ing. They took that infor-
mation back and began
building
international
competitions.
“We’ve seen the sport
growing in Egypt since the
revolution,” Beale said.
“Their competitions are
bigger than ours.”
The sport is also grow-
ing in Saudi Arabia, which
Beale is also consulting
with.
“We’ve had quite a few
Saudi representatives come
out over the past 20 years
and see what the sand-
boarding thing is all about,”
said Beale. “Usually, they
take a lesson and we show
them a little about what’s
going on. The buzz of
sandboarding has been
going back and forth for
the past two decades with
the Saudis.”
But when the sport
began making ground in
Egypt, Saudi interest grew,
particularly with cities that
are being developed.
“They said they’re build-
ing three mega cities, the
biggest one is Neom. It’s a
smart city where technolo-
gy, medicine, arts and
sports can just excel. It’s
going to be self sufficient,
and its own sovereignty.
They’re going to make
their own laws and their
own taxes. But they’re sur-
rounded by dunes. They’re
right on the Red Sea.
They’re incorporating that
because they realize that
the second biggest resource
is all that — sand. They
want to analyze it, rate it
and watch out for it.”
Beale and his crew were
actually invited to move to
the new city to head up the
program, but he declined.
“I thought, ‘No, this is
my home, my baby. I’m
staying here. I’ll go back
and forth, but I don’t want
to move there.’”
Instead, Beale is focus-
ing on the move to his new
location. Located just south
of the original park, the
new location will actually
end up being better, with
closer parking and the
same acreage of dunes. The
full transition is scheduled
to take place by the end of
the year.
The biggest change will
be Beale’s move to bring
full sandboard manufac-
turing to the area. Right
now, the prototype of the
boards are made in
Florence.
“We can test them the
same day we make them,”
he said. “And we have pro
riders. I say, ‘Guys, take
this one out. I want to
know how good it turns
left,’ or whatever. I want to
know how well it acceler-
ates, so we actually have a
radar gun that clocks these
boards so we know how
they’re accelerating and
how they’re working the
same day they make it.
“It worked out really
sweet. When you have a
new design and put the
board out, it’s already been
out 300 times. We know if
it’s going to hold up.”
Once the design is set,
they hire companies in
Utah or Los Angeles to
press the actual board,
since it’s cheaper than what
can be done in Florence.
The base boards are sent
back here, where Beale fits
the boards with foot straps
and other components.
“The idea is to bring full
manufacturing here to
Florence,” he said. “If we
actually had an automated
press, we could make them
at a comparable price to
the big board press compa-
nies. And that’s what we
want to do here — we want
it to make sense for us to
do 6,000 boards a year,
rather than contract it out.”
But his main focus will
still be on ensuring guests
of Sand Master Park have
the best experience possi-
ble.
“If you want to just have
fun, don’t worry about it.
Just take a board and have
fun,” said Beale. “If you
want to learn to sandboard,
take a lesson. My instruc-
tors are all certified. Most
of them are current or for-
mer national champions.
When they’re that good, we
hire them. Of course, when
they work there every day,
they get good anyway. But
we take individuals out, all
the way up to groups of
180, and teach them to
sandboard. They always
have a good experience.”
And it’s that good expe-
rience that keeps Beale in
the game.
“I’ve always been moti-
vated to do a good job,” he
said. “Whether it’s Saudi or
Florence or Southern
California, I want to do a
good job. I want to make
sure we’re giving it 100 per-
cent, and we’re doing it for
the right reasons. It’s never
about the money. My bank
account will show that. But
when you have 50 people a
day coming into your store
and saying, ‘That’s the
most fun I ever had, this is
the best vacation we’ve ever
had, and it was a blast’ —
You feel really good about
that. They’re going to take
that memory with them for
the rest of their life.
“We like that, it feels
good.”
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