While the salmon fishing has been disappointing so far for many anglers, a few anglers are enjoying consistent success on the Umpqua River. The most consistent bite has been on the or near the Umpqua River Bar, but that area has been crowded to the point where some anglers are choosing to fish elsewhere. A few anglers have been fishing upriver of the Umpqua River Bridge at Reedsport.
Not many cohos were caught during the first few days of the nonselective ocean coho season. Quite a few salmon were hooked at Half Moon Bay and Osprey Point by shoreline bound spinner flingers and virtually all the salmon landed have been Chinooks. If the coho salmon show up in any numbers, this fishery could really improve – although the only cohos that will be legal to keep in the river will be finclipped ones.
As the salmon fishing improves and the crabbing stays productive, the South Jetty/Triangle area, although fishing well, will become increasingly overlooked.
Mardon Resort, on Potholes Reservoir, reported that a three pound bluegill was caught last week, but was not weighed on a certified scale for state record consideration. If it had, it would have replaced the current Washington state record of 2.33 pounds taken from a Yakima County pond 32 years ago. Potholes gives up bluegill in the two pound class yearly.
Oregon’s Siltcoos Lake has produced four bluegills over the last three decades that weighed at least two and a half pounds – all heavier than the current state record bluegill of two pounds five and a half ounces – but none of them were officially weighed. Presently, the bluegill population in the lake is very low.
I barely had time to savor the feeling of catching my first smallmouth bass out of Woahink Lake when the ex-logger from Florence, who first told me about the lake’s smallmouths stopped by where I worked. I had no sooner informed him that I had finally broke my Woahink Lake smallmouth jinx, than the gentleman with him, Terry Austen, informed me that he had caught a 19-inch smallmouth the previous evening while casting a spinnerbait at Woahink. Terry was quite vague about the exact location on Woahink where he caught the lunker smallie.
Despite being seriously one-upped, I’m still happy to have caught my first Woahink Lake smallmouth after scores of largemouths. At only a half-pound, it hit hard and fought valiently on my ultralight tackle. I definitely have no complaints, but I do intend to catch a much larger smallie out of Woahink.
One of my favorite fishing techniques is to drive along Highway 101 and to fish every dock that is adjacent to a launching ramp. I usually make two casts parallel to both side of each dock and then move on to the next dock. While I have caught bass as heavy as five pounds doing this, my usual bass will weigh about a pound. If you can limit yourself to no more than four fishless casts per dock, you can cover quite a few spots in a two hour period – and sometimes catch a half dozen or more bass. The key is to fish the shallow water where the dock meets the boat ramp.
Hopefully, you will practice catch and release so others can catch bass from these overlooked spots.
More info about the data breach in the Washingon state licensing system is that the breach also occurred, to a lessor extent in Oregon and Idaho and the people that could be affected created “customer profiles” before July 2006. The at-risk information includes: names; addresses; dates of birth; the last four digits of social security numbers and drivers license numbers (if provided). No credit card or other financial data was exposed.
from Pete’s Blog – PeteHeley.Com
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