4B | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
ODFW from B1
have good opportunities
this weekend.
• The following water-
bodies will be stocked with
trout this week: Hills Creek
Reservoir, Cottage Grove
Reservoir, Dorena Reser-
voir, Cottage Grove Pond,
Alton Baker Canoe Canal
and Dexter Reservoir.
• In the Coos and Co-
quille basins, the water has
been a bit high this week
for good fishing. However,
there are steelhead in the
systems and some loca-
tions could be fishable by
the weekend.
• There are good num-
bers of steelhead in the
South Umpqua and water
levels are dropping. Fishing
should be good this week-
end.
• Garrison Lake is a
good destination for native
trout, uncaught hatchery
trout and even a few lunk-
er, trophy trout!
• The trout bite con-
tinues to be good in the
Holy Water, the stretch of
the upper Rogue between
the hatchery and the Lost
Creek Lake spillway.
• Cooper Creek Reser-
voir was stocked with trout
last week for a kids’ fishing
event. Bet there’s still a few
of those fish around.
• A handful of popular
destinations in the Willa-
mette Zone are scheduled
to be stocked this week.
• Big ole brood trout
have been stocked recently
in Ochoco Reservoir and
the Bend Pine Nursery
Pond.
• Most of Thief Valley
Reservoir is ice-free and
anglers can launch boats
from the boat launch
(though the dock is not in
place).
• Ice conditions, and
fishing!, have been good
at Phillips and Wolf Creek
reservoirs.
• Ice fishing on Kinney
Lake and Magone Lake
has been good. Check out
14 tips for ice fishing in
Oregon.
SIUSLAW RIVER: winter
steelhead
Winter steelhead fishing
has picked up on the Siu-
slaw as the river is finally
back in shape after high
water and tough conditions
for the last few weeks.
Expect the fishing to re-
main fair to good through
February as more fish
move into the system each
day. The best fishing has
been around the Whitaker
Creek area.
Lake Creek opened for
winter steelhead fishing on
Dec. 1. Fishing has been
fair so far on Lake Creek
and there are fish out there
to be caught through the
month of February.
ICE FISHING SAFETY
With several water bod-
ies beginning to ice over,
anglers need to be cautious
during first-ice conditions.
Take the following pre-
cautions: use the “buddy
system,” wear a PFD in
case of thin ice, carry a
throw-rope, and use a
heavy metal staff to check
&
shoppe play
buy stay
for thin-ice. The Minne-
sota DNR has developed
guidelines for ice thickness
and other safety tips.
Remember, no drilled
ice hole should be larger
than 12 inches.
UMPQUA WINTER
STEELHEAD STUDY
If you harvest a hatchery
winter steelhead in the
Umpqua Basin, please turn
in the snouts from those
fish. Some of these snouts
contain small tags, which
are not externally visible.
Anglers who turn in snouts
with these tags are entered
into a raffle for a $50 gift
card.
Snout collection barrels
are located around the
basin, Sportsman’s Ware-
house in Roseburg, or the
Roseburg ODFW office.
Tags obtained from the fish
will inform ODFW on the
best hatchery release tim-
ing strategy to provide the
most fish back to anglers in
the future.
MAINSTEM UMPQUA
RIVER WILD SPRING
CHINOOK CLOSURE
The mainstem Umpqua
River is closed to retention
of all wild spring Chinook
in 2020. Harvest of hatch-
ery Chinook remains open.
The North Umpqua also
remains open to Chinook
under permanent rule. In
the North Umpqua, anglers
may harvest two wild Chi-
nook per day and ten per
year from Feb. 1 through
June 30.
Steelhead
New Chinook reg-
ulations for 2020. Jan.
1 – March 31 open for
hatchery Chinook reten-
tion only. Wild Chinook
harvest is permitted May
22 – Dec. 31. Please see
the 2020 fishing regulation
book for more details.
Steelhead have begun
to move into the river.
Fishing is open through
March 31; then May 22 –
Dec. 31. The wild steelhead
bag limits are 1/day and
3/year as part of a zone-
wide accumulative daily or
annual salmon/steelhead
bag limit.
To check current river
conditions, call 541-332-
0405.
UMPQUA RIVER,
NORTH: steelhead, trout
Fishing should be good
this weekend. The annual
steelhead Derby took place
last weekend and even with
less-than-ideal conditions,
anglers were successful.
The North is open to
Chinook fishing under
permanent rule. Anglers
may harvest up to 10 wild
Chinook per year and two
per day.
Some of the North
Umpqua and tributaries
are open for trout (those
above Slide Creek Dam):
check the fishing regula-
tions to see which areas are
closed.
Note that as of Oct. 1,
fishing in the fly water area
is restricted to the use of a
single, barbless, artificial
fly.
ELK RIVER: Chinook,
LMS wrestling takes
third at regional
tournament
Seven wrestlers place at dis-
tricts; fundraiser planned for
this weekend
By Ben Deatherage
Guest Contributor
The success of wrestling in the local area
begins with the athletes at Cottage Grove
High School, but it certainly doesn’t stop
there.
Lincoln Middle School wrestling capped
off their campaign for the 2019-20 season
on Saturday, February 8. The Tigers made
the short jaunt to Creswell High School for
the Valley League District Tournament. Fif-
teen grapplers qualified for the competition
via the South Regionals the weekend before,
where the Tigers took home a third-place
team finish.
Carter Bengtson (104-pound) was the
highest placer of the team with a sec-
ond-place medal in his weight class. Jeffery
Conklin (70), Seazar Ibarra (74), Micah
Spear (136), Rogelio Soto-Cruz (187) and
Zane White (265) were the five individu-
als to receive third-place awards. Nathan
Abrams (265) was the lone fourth-place fin-
isher on the team.
For the second year in a row, the Ti-
gers placed at the district tournament and
brought home a fourth-place trophy out of
the 16 total teams in the Valley League.
This Saturday, Feb. 15 the team will be
hosting a fundraiser at the Cottage Grove
Armory from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The
event is being billed as a Daddy/Daughter
Dance and Mother/Son Video Game Tour-
nament. It is a great way to spend time with
the family and support a great cause. Ad-
mission is $12 for adults and $10 for kids.
Concessions will be available for purchase.
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Keep it local.
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