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Commercial Dungeness crab season delayed until Dec. 16
wasting the resource.
Crab quality testing in
early November showed
a number of the test
areas did not meet the
criteria for a Dec. 1
opening.
The delayed opening
will allow crab to fill
with more meat.
A second round of
crab quality testing will
occur after Thanksgiving
and results will be used
to determine if the sea-
For the second year in
a row, the Dec. 1 com-
mercial Dungeness crab
season is delayed until at
least Dec. 16 for the
entire Oregon coast as
testing shows crabs are
too low in meat yield.
The ocean commer-
cial Dungeness crab sea-
son in Oregon, targeted
to open Dec. 1, can be
delayed to ensure a
high-quality product for
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son should open Dec.
16, be further delayed,
or be split into areas
with different opening
dates.
In partnership with
the Oregon Dungeness
Crab Commission and
the
commercial
Dungeness crab indus-
try, ODFW tests crab
out of Oregon’s six major
crabbing ports. Weekly
season opening updates
are posted online until
the decision to open the
season is made.
Crab were also tested
for domoic acid along
the entire coast, and all
samples were found to
be safe for human con-
sumption. However, due
to elevated levels of
domoic acid detected in
razor clams in some
areas,
testing
in
Dungeness crabs will
continue regularly north
of Cape Perpetua.
In conjunction with
the delayed ocean com-
mercial season, com-
mercial harvest of
Dungeness crab in
Oregon bays that are
currently open will close
at 12:01 a.m. Dec. 1 but
may reopen if the ocean
commercial
fishery
opens in December.
Recreational
Dungeness crab harvest
in the ocean off Oregon
opens Dec. 1 as sched-
uled in all areas.
Recreational crab har-
vesting is currently open
coastwide in bays and
estuaries, and on beach-
es, docks, piers, and jet-
ties.
Recreational crabbers
should always call the
Shellfish Hotline (800-
448-2474) or visit the
ODA
Recreational
Shellfish
Biotoxin
Closures webpage before
crabbing.
Fishing
limit for the Alsea River
is 1 wild Chinook per
day and 5 per year for
the 2020 season.
Cutthroat trout fishing
closed for the season on
Oct. 31. Last updated
11/4/20.
SALMON RIVER: Fall
Chinook
Fall Chinook fishing
continues to be slow on
the Salmon River with
the low and clear condi-
tions.
Cutthroat trout fishing
is closed.
NOTE: Reminder, the
Salmon River hatchery
remains closed to walk in
anglers. Anglers can use
access points upstream
and downstream of the
hatchery to access those
traditional fishing loca-
tions.
SILETZ RIVER:
Summer steelhead, fall
Chinook
Fall Chinook fishing
remains steady on the
Siletz River. There are
fish staging in the upper
estuary and lower river
waiting for rain to move
upriver.
The forecasted rain
this week will have these
fish on the move and cre-
ate good conditions for
the tail end of the fall
Chinook run on the
Siletz.
Due to low forecasted
returns for the 2020 sea-
son bag limits have been
reduced. The bag limit
for the Siletz River is 1
wild chinook per day and
5 per year for the 2020
season.
Cutthroat trout fishing
is closed.
The 4-mile bridge (aka
Steel Bridge) in the Siletz
gorge is open to motor-
ized vehicles on the
weekends only. Anglers
can walk/bike in the road
during the weekdays.
There is a parking area
located at the 1-mile gate
where anglers can walk/
bike upstream from
there. Last updated
11/4/20.
WILSON RIVER:
Chinook, steelhead
Fall Chinook fishing
slowed on the Wilson last
week, but this week’s
rains should bump the
river up enough to bring
in some new fish and get
holding fish back on the
move.
Above Jordan Creek,
the Wilson River is
closed to all salmon
angling (including catch
and release). Steelhead
fishing is open in the
upper river, but anglers
may not target salmon.
TENMILE LAKES:
Trout, warmwater species,
largemouth bass
Largemouth bass can
be found around any
submerged wood and can
be caught on spin-
ner-baits, jigs, or crank-
baits. As the water tem-
peratures continue to
cool down, bass will
move into deep water for
the winter.
Yellow perch fishing
continues to be very
good for anglers fishing
from a boat or fishing
from a dock this past
week.
Yellow perch have
been in 15-20 feet of
water and are biting on
small jigs or a worm on a
hook. If you fish and area
for 10-15 minutes with-
out a bite, it’s time to
move to another location.
The wild coho fishery
is open on Tenmile Lake
through Dec. 31.
Anglers are allowed to
harvest 1 wild coho per
day and 5 for the season
in aggregate with Siltcoos
and Tahkenitch lakes.
The Tenmile Lake level
is 6.4 ft at the outlet,
which is still too low to
allow a decent number of
coho to enter the lakes.
Last updated 11/11/20.
UMPQUA RIVER,
SOUTH: CLOSED
The entire South
Umpqua and tributaries
closed after Sept. 15 as
part of the annual closure
to protect salmon.
PACIFIC OCEAN and
BEACHES: Bottomfish,
salmon, halibut, surfperch
Bottomfishing is open
to all depths. The daily
bag limit for marine fish
was increased to 7
through the end of the
year.
But anglers must
release all cabezon, cop-
per, quillback and China
rockfish when fishing
from a boat.
Anglers are also
allowed 2 lingcod per
day.
Anglers may also
choose to fish the off-
shore longleader fishery
outside of the 40-fathom
regulatory line, which is
open year-round. The
longleader fishery has a
daily bag limit of 10 fish
made of yellowtail,
widow, canary, blue, dea-
con, redstripe, green-
stripe, silvergray, chilli-
pepper, and bocaccio
rockfish.
No other groundfish
are allowed and offshore
longleader fishing trips
cannot be combined with
traditional bottomfish,
flatfish or halibut trips.
Surfperch anglers are
having some success on
the beaches using sand
shrimp or Berkley Gulp
sand worms.
Ocean Chinook salm-
on fishing is now closed
until next year.
The Nearshore and All
Depth Halibut seasons
are now closed for the
season.
PACIFIC HALIBUT:
All areas are closed for
Pacific halibut for the
remainder of 2020.
The last two weeks of
data for the Pacific hali-
but are still being pro-
cessed, however there
were 28 pounds caught
in the Central coast sub-
area the week before the
season closed.
OCEAN SALMON:
All areas are closed for
ocean salmon fishing for
the remainder of 2020.
The area from Cape Fal-
con to Humbug Mt. will
reopen for all salmon-ex-
cept coho on March 15,
2021 (this opening could
be modified by in-season
action during the March
2021 Pacific Fishery.
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the forecasted rain. A
good shot of rain will
move more fish into the
lake and get them staging
in the creek arms waiting
to spawn. These fisheries
typically pick up in late
October, peak in
November, and fish well
into December. Last
updated 11/4/20.
ALSEA RIVER: Fall
Chinook
Reminder — The
deadline for salmon fish-
ing on the Alsea River is
River Edge boat ramp
located at river mile 28.
This is relatively low in
the system and is well
below Fall Creek and the
popular steelhead bank
access on the N. Fk. of
the Alsea River. Know
where you are on the
river before you start to
fish for fall Chinook.
Anglers are reminded
that due to low forecast-
ed returns for the 2020
season bag limits have
been reduced. The bag
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