REEDSPORT — A Douglas County Circuit Court judge has ordered a former Reedsport School District employee to pay back the remainder of $49,347, do community service and serve time for taking district funds.
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REEDSPORT — More room, more quiet and a sense of ownership.
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REEDSPORT — Highland Elementary fifth- and sixth-grade students recently gained a look at salmon life cycles, courtesy of local volunteers.
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REEDSPORT — Hundreds of family history centers across the United States welcome everyone with an interest in their roots and Reedsport has one as well.
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REEDSPORT — The city will host a “tsunami walkout” drill March 11 on the fifth anniversary of Japan’s tsunami and earthquake.
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Gardiner-Reedsport-Winchecter Bay S.T.E.P. member Frank Paula (right) helps Highland Elementary fifth grader Alleyna Rohde from Jennifer Wright’s class place a Fall Chinook fry in a travel container while sixth-grader Carmen Schulthess from Deanne Frazier’s class and Garrett Seeley, also from…
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Highland Elementary sixth-grader Garrett Seeley was among those participating recently in studies of salmon life cycles, including taking a field trip to the local Reedsport-Gardiner-Winchester Bay STEP hatchery.
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Willamette Valley – Spring Chinook are starting to fall with more regularity now. Recent precipitation however will put the Willamette out of shape but the mainstem Columbia is producing enough fish to create an early season frenzy. As is common, larger 5-year and even 6-year old fish show in the early portion of the run. This is evidenced by the 20 – 30-pounders hitting the deck this time of year. Of course these fish only make up a small portion of the run, catching one in early March and certainly February, is quite a treat! Springers have been reported from the gorge downstream to Longview. Do remember however, it’s early, so don’t go into it with high expectations.
We’re going to start reporting on Columbia River spring Chinook again so look for that new addition this week!
The big news is spring Chinook on the lower Willamette and that trollers and anchor fishers are catching a few every day.
Fly anglers will be able to catch some winter trout once the McKenzie starts to recover from precipitation this week With water high and rising on the North Santiam, it is not a good choice at this time.
Winter steelheading has been decent on the Clackamas and should continue although the water will be on the rise in the coming week.
Steelhead stalled on the Sandy with rainfall starting over the past weekend. It’s still high and rising at this writing.
Northwest Oregon – Steelheaders have had to endure high water conditions in recent days but the strong steelhead showing continues on in NW Oregon systems. The Wilson and Nestucca remain the busiest waterways, due to the late season hatchery option which continues to prove itself worthy this year. Action was good on the Wilson and Nestucca last weekend and early in the week and will likely produce good results again when flows subside.
Wild fish should start to show in better numbers on most other north coast streams with the Trask, Kilchis and Necanicum Rivers all good options, especially when the larger rivers such as the Wilson, Trask and Nehalem remain too big for good success.
Bank anglers should find success in any accessible river reaches. With the recent high flows, fish will be well distributed in all systems, well into the upper areas.
Another strong weather system will keep boats from recreating on the ocean this weekend and next week. Bottomfish will be readily available if the ocean ever cooperates.
Coastal estuaries won’t be all the pleasant to recreate on either. Bay crabbing is fair at best anyway.
Central & South Coast Reports – Rough offshore conditions are forecast for the coming week which will prevent offshore forays.
While winter is the time of year to think of surf perch fishing, it has continued whenever conditions allow over this winter.
Crabbing has been improving slowly on Winchester Bay but rainfall in the coming week won’t do the crabbers any good.
With spring Chinook starting up on the Umpqua, that is what most anglers are fishing for now.
Steelheaders are catching fish on the lower Rogue but now that the first spring Chinook of the year has been landed, their focus may change. The Grants Pass stretch has been producing winter steelhead.
Offshore anglers launching out of the Port of Brookings are doing well for bottomfish, particularly lingcod. The Chetco is expected to fish well once it recovers from the effects of passing storm fronts. The Medford newspaper reported the Diamond Lake has sufficiently frozen to once again allow ice fishing.
Central & Eastern – While wintertime trout fishing is a sport to test anyone’s patience, fishing for redsides on the lower Deschutes can be quite rewarding for fly anglers.
Winter fly anglers often fish the Metolius as it has a history of producing trout at this time of year.
Wallowa River steelheaders report that the river is in good conditions and producing summer steelhead.
Kokanee fishing is quite good at Odell where anglers also have a chance to catch large lake trout.
Lake Billy Chinook has continued to produce fair to good numbers of kokanee as well as the occasional smallish bull trout.
SW Washington – The Cowlitz River remains the main target for late-run winter steelhead for district anglers. No recent reports of spring Chinook and action for salmon likely won’t pick up until later this month.
Other systems such as the Kalama and Lewis are only putting out an occasional steelhead. Returns to these rivers in recent years have been depressing.
The commercial smelt fishery only harvested a little over 4,700 pounds. That’s about 1/4 of the poundage caught in the previous 2 years.
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The trout stocking schedule for Coos County has changed. It seems that the 16-inch trophy rainbows originally slated to be planted this week in several Coos County waters will instead be planted during the fourth week of March when Bradley Lake is scheduled to receive 200 of the jumbo rainbows and Empire Lakes 500 (250 each in Lower Empire and Upper Empire. At that time, Johnson Mill Pond will receive 50 trophy rainbows it previously was not scheduled for while Saunders Lake (150); Butterfield Lake (150) and Powers Pond (100) will not be getting the trophy rainbows they were slated to receive this week. However, the current stocking schedule for this week, while not including trophy trout plants for this week in the appropriate column, still includes them in the totals of trout scheduled to be planted. Which means I’m as confused as anyone else.
This week’s Coos County trout plants will consist of 3,000 legal rainbows each for Bradley Lake; Upper Empire Lake; Lower Empire Lake; Saunders Lake; Johnson Mill Pond and Powers Pond.
Roseburg-area lakes sceduled to be stocked this week include Plat I Reservoir with 1,000 legal rainbows, while Ben Irving Reservoir; Galesvill Reservoir and Loon Lake are each slated to receive 2,000 legal rainbows. Cooper Creek Reservoir, which was stocked with 400 legal and 100 14-inch rainbows last week is also slated to receive 2,000 legal rainbows this week. Lake Marie will receive 2,000 legal rainbows during the third week in March.
The Florence-area lakes, some of which have been stocked twice this season , are not scheduled for additional stocking until the third week in March when virtually all of those lakes that receive plants will receive additional trout.
The Lower Umpqua Flycasters’ annual Flyfishing Expo was held at the Reedsport City Hall last Saturday and as usual, it was one of the best free events any fishing addict could hope to attend – and if you missed it, you’ll have to wait until the last Saturday in February of next year to truly know what you missed.
It won’t be free – admission is ten dollars – but the Northwest Fly Tyer and Flyfishing Expo will be held at the Linn County Expo Center in Albany on March 11th and 12th. With demonstrations from more than 200 fly tyers and 50 exhibitors, the event bills itself as “the largest fly tying event west of the Mississippi.”
During the last couple of weeks, bassfishing has been surprisingly productive at many of the lakes along the Oregon coast despite water temperatures and fishing conditions that haven’t been all that great. Tenmile Lakes is the only fishing spot along the Oregon coast receiving much bassfishing pressure and soft plastics are usually the most popular baits. But when it’s windy, spinnerbaits, chatterbaits and crankbaits are easier to fish.
As good as Oregon’s bassfishing has been, California’s has been much better. It seems like the entire state has been redhot with many double digit largemouths taken including a 15 pound 12 ouncer from central California’s Camanche Lake.
Also well worth an extensive road trip are the hefty lahontan cutthroat trout in western Nevada’s Pyramid Lake. This winter fishery produces cutts weighing from 15 to 20+ pounds every week.
Crabbing success has been very slowly improving. Weather and bar conditions have ruled out ocean crabbing during most days and very few people have been crabbing in the “Triangle” – which usually offers fair to good winter crabbing.
Most of the fishing pressure on Winchester Bay’s South Jetty has been directed at striped surfperch, but lingcod should be available for anglers willing to cast large lures or baits for a long enough period of time to give them a chance to work.
Both sand shrimp and nightcrawlers have been working well for the striped surfperch.
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REEDSPORT — City staff were notified in the early afternoon on Feb. 23 of a sewer leak just past the lift station in Bicentennial Park.
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