Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Bright Chinook should continue to pulse in over the next few weeks. The cutthroat trout fishery is over for the season. Coos County lakes: Stocked trout fishing has been excellent. Coos River Basin: Trout fishing is closed until next s...
 1.5K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 70.0 Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Rains are moving fish into upper tidewater and fresh fish are expected to pulse in soon. The last day to fish for cutthroat trout is today. Coos County lakes: There was an additional stocking of both trophy- and legal-size trout last w...
2.4K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 141.0 Bandon Fishing report
Local lakes: Last week, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife restocked Empire Lakes in Coos Bay with the last of its two-pound trophy trout and legal-sized rainbow trout. The reports I received from the Bites on Tackle shop in Empire were o...
3.5K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 70.0 Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Fall Chinook anglers are having fair success in mid to upper tidewater as recent rains have moved fish. The cutthroat trout season is open through October. Coos County lakes: Empire Lakes, Bluebill Lake and Butterfield Lake have been s...
1.6K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 70.0 Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Fall Chinook anglers are having fair success in mid to upper tidewater as recent rains have moved fish. The cutthroat trout season is open through October. Coos County lakes: Empire Lakes, Bluebill Lake and Butterfield Lake have been s...
1.6K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 70.0 Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Chinook anglers are having better success as fall rains helped move fish into the lower river. Fishing for cutthroat trout is fair to good. Coos County lakes: Rainbow trout were stocked last week in Empire Lakes, Bradley Lake, Powers P...
3.2K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 70.0 Storms affect fishing and hunting
Salmon fishing on the Lower Rogue River in Gold Beach still is producing good numbers of coho and jack Chinook. Adult Chinook are returning to the Indian Creek area with larger numbers being caught this past week. Most of the salmon being caught on t...
3.7K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 70.0 Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Chinook anglers are having better success as fall rains helped move fish into the lower river. Fishing for cutthroat trout is fair to good. Coos County lakes: Rainbow trout were stocked last week in Empire Lakes, Bradley Lake, Powers P...
3.2K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 70.0 Storms affect fishing and hunting
Salmon fishing on the Lower Rogue River in Gold Beach still is producing good numbers of coho and jack Chinook. Adult Chinook are returning to the Indian Creek area with larger numbers being caught this past week. Most of the salmon being caught on t...
3.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 70.0 State OKs shellfish harvest on South Coast
SALEM (AP) Health officials have reopened Pacific coastal beaches for recreational razor clamming from the south jetty of Yaquina Bay down to the California border. The state Monday also approved recreational mussel harvesting from Bastendorff Beac...
0.8K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 423.0 Chowder crown heads to Brookings
Chowder fans queued up for more than 45 minutes on Saturday to get a taste of this year s clam chowder at the Oregon Coast Professional Chowder Cookoff. This year six restaurants participated in the event, held during Chowder, Blues and Brews in Flor...
1.1K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 282.0 Take advantage of good crabbing
Salmon fishing on the Coquille River still is producing good catches of both coho and Chinook, and we ve taken about 35 percent of our quota of wild coho in this fishery. The bite is short lived and seems to be the best about an hour or so before hig...
3.9K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 70.0 Bandon Fishing Report
Local lakes: Bass anglers are reporting an increase in largemouth bass action on local lakes and ponds. Anglers fishing early mornings and evenings have gone back to using top-water baits to catch aggressive bass. Two anglers told me they have been ...
3.3K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 70.0 Clam harvesting is OK in bays
The Oregon Department of Agriculture has reopened recreational and commercial clam harvesting in all bays along the entire Oregon Coast, from the mouth of the Columbia River to the California border. However, all recreational and commercial razor cla...
1.8K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 846.0 Recreation Report
SIUSLAW RIVER: Fall Chinook anglers are having slow to fair success. Anglers are catching coho, but only adipose fin-clipped coho may be retained. Fishing for resident and sea-run cutthroat trout is fair to good. COOS COUNTY LAKES: Fishing for largem...
4.3K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 70.0 Bandon Fishing report
Local lakes: Fishing for largemouth bass should continue to get better as the days get shorter and water temperatures in area lakes cool down. Look for these fish to become more aggressive in their feeding habits as winter approaches. Fishing top-wat...
3.4K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 282.0 Three rivers closed for wild coho
The first wild coho season in 15 years was a success and the quotas have been met on three of the four rivers. The season is now closed on the Yaquina, Nehalem and Coos rivers and the Coquille remains open until the quota of 1,500 adult fish is met. ...
3.7K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 70.0 Oregon clam chowder
Local shellfish expert Bill Lackner has sent us a unique recipe for Oregon Clam Chowder. Here it is: Oregon s clams specifically the use of gaper clams or razor clams distinguishes Oregon s Clam Chowder from other well known styles of clam chowders. ...
7.3K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 1000.0 Toxins shut mussel, clam
PORTLAND (AP) The state Department of Agriculture has closed the entire Oregon coast to recreational mussel and clam harvesting, because of the risk of toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning. Agency spokesman Bruce Pokarney said Monday tha...
1.0K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 846.0 Toxins shut mussel and clam harvesting
PORTLAND (AP) The state Department of Agriculture has closed the entire Oregon coast to recreational mussel and clam harvesting because of the risk of toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning. Agency spokesman Bruce Pokarney said Monday that...
1.0K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 846.0 | 
