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Lane Arts offering development workshops for artists
Lane Arts Council’s artist
professional development
program,
Professional
Practice returns this spring
with a series of three work-
shops and discussions.
The series focuses on on-
going collaborative learn-
ing with an artist cohort,
combining presentations
from regional and nation-
al experts with take-home
work and group discus-
sions.
This year’s virtual format
can be accessed by artists
throughout Lane County.
This year’s topics are ap-
plicable to visual artists,
musicians, actors, writers,
dancers, and all creatives of
all disciplines.
The series kicks off in
early March and will con-
tinue through the spring
with multiple workshops
and discussions. Artists are
highly encouraged to reg-
ister for the full series for
$65; single workshops are
$25.
Each session is held on
a Tuesday from 4:30 to 6
p.m.
• Creative Resilience for
Artists with Marie Schum-
acher, creative resilience
coach and founder of PDX
Vox: Reignite your motiva-
tion to create, freshen up
your routines and adopt
new habits, activate your
network of support, and
reconnect with why art
matters.
Discussion: March 16
• Financial Wellness
for Creatives with Brooke
Benson, Financial coach
and Founder of Not Starv-
ing Artists: Gain practical
tools and knowledge to
manage your money, plan
for your financial future
and reframe your mon-
ey mindset: moving away
from the “Starving Artist”
The cohort model allows
artists to build connec-
tions and learn with others
throughout the course of
the series.
Artists in Lane County
have had few opportunities
for professional develop-
ment and the skills need-
ed to build and strengthen
their businesses and their
creative practice.
Fishing
are still catching a few
fish. The Coos Basin steel-
head rivers are currently
dropping and at very fish-
able levels. The West Fork
Millicoma is currently low
and very clear, which will
make the steelhead
extremely spooky.
It looks like there are
very few 2-salt steelhead
returning this year, these
fish typically make up the
large portion of the run
each winter.
TENMILE LAKES/CREEK:
Steelhead, largemouth
bass,
Steelhead fishing con-
tinues to be slow on
Tenmile Creek. Eel Creek
is now open to steelhead
fishing.
Largemouth bass in
Tenmile Lakes can be
found in deeper water
around submerged cover.
Water temperatures have
been in the upper 40s so
anglers will want to slow
down their presentation.
UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH:
Winter Steelhead
Fishing seems to be
picking up and some real-
ly big fish are being
caught. Don’t forget to
turn in snout from hatch-
ery winter steelhead for a
chance to win a gift card
(see note below).
PACIFIC OCEAN and
BEACHES: Bottomfish, surf-
perch
Bottom fishing is open
to all depths. Fishing has
been good when anglers
can get out on the ocean
with anglers catching
some big lingcod. The
daily bag limit for marine
fish is 6 fish, which
includes a one fish sub-
bag limit for China, cop-
per, and quillback rock-
fish.
Anglers can still harvest
2 lingcod per day. Anglers
must release all cabezon
through June.
Anglers may also
choose to fish the offshore
longleader fishery outside
of the 40-fathom regulato-
ry 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, greenstripe,
silvergray, chillipepper,
and bocaccio rockfish.
No other groundfish are
allowed and offshore long-
leader fishing trips cannot
be combined with tradi-
tional bottomfish, flatfish
or halibut trips.
Fishing for surfperch is
starting to pick up on
many of the Oregon
beaches. Anglers have
been catching surfperch
when the ocean swells are
calmer using sand shrimp
or Berkley Gulp sand
worms.
• BOTTOM FISHING:
Fishing has increased
and the lingcod are on the
bite. Newport had full
lingcod bag limits of two
per angler and half of their
bottomfish bag limit,
which contained mostly
black rockfish. The fishing
out of Newport has been
better in the deeper waters
of around 80-90 feet.
• PACIFIC HALIBUT:
All areas are closed for
Pacific halibut. The 2021
season will begin opening
in May.
• OCEAN SALMON:
All areas are closed for
ocean salmon fishing. The
area from Cape Falcon to
Humbug Mt. will reopen
for all salmon-except coho
March 15 (this opening
could be modified by
in-season action during
the March 2021 Pacific
Fishery Management
Council meeting).
All other seasons for
2021 will be under devel-
opment through the
Pacific Fishery
Management Council’s
annual process that is
expected to conclude on
from 1B
is typically the peak for
Siletz steelheading.
The 4-mile bridge (aka
Steel Bridge) in the Siletz
gorge is open to motorized
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.
WILSON RIVER: Steelhead
The Wilson dropped
into shape late last week
and actually had decent
fishing Thursday and
Friday. The bite slowed
over the weekend but has
been slow to fair the last
couple days.
It will fish through the
weekend. Conditions
won’t be the best the next
week, but there are fish
and the opportunity to
catch them throughout the
basin.
YAQUINA RIVER: Winter
steelhead
Winter steelhead will
start to show up in the
Yaquina/Big Elk in
December and typically
peak from January to
March.
COOS RIVER BASIN: Marine
perch species, steelhead
Fishing for rockfish and
lingcod in lower Coos Bay
estuary has been good for
anglers fishing along the
jetty and sub-merged rock
structures. Smaller jigs
with a twister tail or
1-ounce jigging spoons
have been working to
catch rockfish.
The daily bag limit for
marine fish is 6, which
includes a one fish sub-
bag limit for China, cop-
per and quillback rock-
fish. Anglers can still har-
vest 2 lingcod per day.
The winter steelhead
fishing has been slower
than normal but anglers
trope and towards finan-
cial freedom.
Workshop: March 30
Discussion: April 13
• Developing Your Dig-
ital Presence with Ceylon
Mitchell II, Founder and
Co-owner of M3 | Mitch-
ell Media & Marketing,
LLC: Learn how to effec-
tively use digital marketing
strategies to improve your
brand, website, and social
media identity.
Workshop: April 27
Discussion: May 11
Most learning is focused
on developing an artistic
practice, but artists are of-
ten left in the dark when it
comes to business and fi-
nancial planning, building
audiences, connecting with
venues, presenting their
work, or pursuing other
professional opportunities.
To help meet this need,
Lane Arts Council has
been providing profes-
sional development work-
shops for over 10 years,
leveraging local, regional,
and now national experts
and consultants to support
artists of all disciplines in
their creative endeavors.
More information and
registration at lanearts.org/
workshops. Professional
Practice is presented by
Lane Arts Council, and
sponsored by City of Eu-
gene Cultural Services and
Columbia Bank.
April 15.
• SHORE and
ESTUARY FISHING
Surfperch are available
in the surf year-round
along sandy beaches and
rocky shore, with the best
fishing (and safest fishing)
occurring when swells are
small. Learn about ocean
surfperch fishing.
• BAY CLAMS:
During fall and winter,
low tides generally occur
in the evening. While you
can still harvest clams,
make sure you are familiar
with the area before ven-
turing out on the mudflats
in the dark. Stay safe by
clamming with a buddy,
bringing a light, and keep-
ing an eye on the tide.
Always call the ODA
shellfish safety hotline at
1-800-448-2474 or ODA
shellfish closures website
before harvesting for the
most current information
about shellfish safety clo-
sures.
• RAZOR CLAMMING:
The recreational harvest
of razor clams is closed
from the Columbia River
to the California border.
ODA recommends you
discard and do not eat any
razor clams dug from
these areas on or since
Monday, Nov. 16 as this is
when samples were dug.
• CRABBING:
Recreational crabbers
must mark all floating sur-
face buoys with a name
and other identifying
information. Crabbing
reports for each bay are
not available year-round.
As they are available
during the year, updates
will be posted.
Recent storms and high
tides resulted in lower
crabbing effort in many of
Oregon’s bays in recent
weeks. Crabbers re-port
moderate catch of hard-
shelled crab.
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