Siuslaw River: Fishing above tidewater is closed and will reopen for trout season on May 28.
Arizona Pond: Anglers are catching a mix of trophy and legal trout.
Coos County lakes: There should be lots of trout available all spring.
Angling success for warmwater species such as bass and bluegill is picking up as day length and warmer weather increases.
Jeremiah Pruit, 6, smiles as Chris Claire from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife holds up the rainbow trout Jeremiah caught last Saturday as part of a rainy Family Fun Day at John Topits Park. The ODFW was teaching young children how to fish at Middle Empire Lake.
COOS BAY – Rain certainly didn’t stop some young anglers from heading to John Topits Park last Saturday.
In a steady downpour, children and their parents were lining up at Middle Empire Lake for Family Fun Day – where Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials and volunteers were teaching young kids how to fish.
ODFW stocked rainbow trout in an enclosure, making it easier for kids to catch a fish. The event went along with a carnival, face painting and lunch that raised awareness for the prevention of child abuse, run by the Child Abuse Prevention Intervention Center.
ODFW has been participating for years, and had a turnout of about 300 children armed with small fishing poles (though some also were available to borrow).
“I wasn’t sure how it would turn out,” said Mike Gray, a fish biologist for ODFW. “But we’ve had people lined up over there all morning.”
Arizona Pond: Trout fishing is good and will get better as ODFW will have stocked the lake this week.
Coos County lakes: To try a new trout stocking program, Mingus Park was stocked with 9-inch rainbows this week. Butterfield, Empire and Tenmile lakes were also stocked with legal rainbows.
Angling success for warmwater species is picking up as day length and warmer weather increases.
Coos River Basin: Steelhead fishing closes after April 30.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will host three public meetings in coastal communities later this month to solicit input on regulations for the fall Chinook salmon and coho seasons in Oregon bays ad coastal rivers.
Meetings are scheduled in North Bend, Newport and Tillamook, and discussions will include sport and commercial Chinook seasons in terminal ocean areas off Tillamook, Elk and Chetco rivers, sport Chinook fisheries in all coastal rivers and sport wild coho fisheries in select rivers and lakes.
ODFW will also be seeking input on proposed wild coho fisheries in 10 rivers (Nehalem, Tillamook, Nestucca, Siletz, Yaquina, Alsea, Siuslaw, Umpqua, Coos and Coquille) and Tenmile Lakes.
Siuslaw River: The basin including Lake Creek is closed to steelhead fishing, and will reopen on May 28.
Arizona Pond: Anglers are catching a mix of trophy and legal trout.
Coos County lakes: There should be lots of trout available all spring, as most of the popular lakes are stocked every few weeks through early June.
Siuslaw River: The basin including Lake Creek now is closed to steelhead fishing. A short section from Whittaker Creek to Wildcat Creek remains open to adipose fin-clipped steelhead through April 15.
Arizona Pond: Anglers are catching a mix of trophy and legal trout. Anglers are reminded that angling is limited to youth 17 and under.
Ben Irving Reservoir: In addition to trout, anglers should also try fishing for some of the large crappie that are available.
Siuslaw River: Winter steelhead angling has been fair to good when river conditions have allowed. Anglers should look to fish the falling river level or try plunking during the higher turbid flows.
Chetco River: Water flows are high.
Coos County lakes: Warmwater fish such as bass and bluegill should start to bite well as spring temperatures warm and day lengths increase.
Siuslaw River: Winter steelhead fishing around Whittaker Creek down to the lower Lake Creek area should be productive over the next week or two.
Arizona Pond: Trout fishing was excellent last weekend. Anglers were catching a mix of trophy and legal trout.
Ben Irving Reservoir: It received its first stocking of 1,000 trout this week.
Siuslaw River: Winter steelhead angling is fair to good. Recent rains have moved and activated the fish. Fishing around Whittaker Creek down to the lower Lake Creek area should be productive over the next week or two either bank fishing or drifting from a boat.
Chetco River: Increased flows this week should bring in some fresh steelhead, even though March is getting to the end of the run. March is an excellent month for anglers that like to fly fish, run plugs, jigs, or cast spinners.
A truck unloads thousands of trout into Empire Lakes. This week, many local lakes were stocked with trout, with more lakes and ponds scheduled to be stocked in the near future.
This past week and next week, large trucks carrying thousands of trout will make their way to local lakes.
Do you know what that means? Time to dust off your trout fishing gear.
With packed lakes, trout fishing will be abundant in Empire Lakes, Bradley Lake, Powers Pond, Johnson Mill Pond and Saunders Lake in the Coos and Coquille Watershed District.
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