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The Oregon Tuna Classic finished up last weekend in Garibaldi, and local team Green Lightning Laundry didn’t fare well enough to take home the top prize – an invitation to the International Game Fish Association’s Offshore World Championship. But 48 teams brought back 6,414 pounds of tuna to donate to Tillamook County food banks. Top anglers in [...] 0

NEWPORT (AP) — As the Dungeness crab season wraps up on the Oregon coast, crabbers are celebrating a good season. Fishermen have hauled in more than 23 million pounds in the past eight and a half months. That’s the fourth time in the past decade that landings have exceeded 20 million pounds. By the time crabbers [...] 0

The Coos Basin Amateur Salmon Derby is approaching, and tickets are on sale now. The derby kicks off from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 10, with a barbecue and silent auction to be held for contestants and ticket holders at Menasha Forest Products Corporation, 1515 Sheridan Ave., North Bend. The derby, which runs that Saturday [...] 0

The Oregon Tuna Classic reeled in thousands of pounds of tuna last weekend, producing happy fishermen along with happy food banks. Thirty-seven teams caught 4,045 pounds of tuna last Saturday during the third leg of the tournament in Charleston, and food banks along the South Coast can also expect an additional 2,100 pounds of fish that [...] 0

My fellow clam diggers, I will get straight to the point.  There is absolute no reason for clam diggers to accept the posting of inaccurate reports on the Shellfish Hotline or the ODFW Recreational Report’s websites. The postings on both the Shellfish Hotline  and on the Recreational Reports during the last series of low tides were [...] 2

SALEM (AP) — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will close sport fishing for chinook on the Snake River just before midnight on Aug. 4. Biologists from Idaho and Oregon cooperatively manage the fishery. They recommended the closure because the harvest quota of 2,000 hatchery chinook has been met. 0

My grandsons and I had a great time crabbing from the Old Coast Guard pier on Friday afternoon using 2 Crab Max crab traps. Our catch mostly females and short males mirrored the catch of most of the other crabbers on the dock. However, one crabber caught an exceptionally large Dungeness crab and two boys [...] 0

Clam Diggers complained about the danger posed to boaters at the Gardiner boat ramp.  A clam digger who used the ramp this week as a meeting point for his family and friends brought the threat that the build up of soft sediment poses to boaters and children to the attention of the CDAO.  The depth [...] 0

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will host an educational event for saltwater anglers from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 10, near the public boat ramp in Gold Beach. One participant will win a free four-hour bottom fishing trip donated by Five Star Charters. The trip is for one [...] 0

Learn to dig clams or take crabs at the ODFW Seminar listed on the flyer 0

Recreational crabbing in the Ocean has been great since the season opened on 12/01 but rough ocean conditions have kept most crabbers at home. Dungeness Crabs are common to areas of the ocean with a sandy bottom and in areas with extensive eel grass beds.  Crabbing conditions inside of Oregon’s estuaries this spring have been [...] 1

POWERS – The 20th annual Kids Fishing Derby will be held at the Powers County Park on Saturday. Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. at the Blue Shelter, and an awards ceremony will follow the derby. The derby is open to kids 16 years and under. Prizes donated by local businesses will be awarded [...] 0

The opening of the ocean Chinook salmon fishery was disappointing, but it was to be expected. Most of the commercial salmon anglers were fishing far offshore and quite deep, conditions not easily duplicated by salmon sport anglers. That said, there were a few salmon caught and one was huge. Lee Baker, fishing [...] 0

Mitigation Letter Coos Bay - Click on Mitigation Letter to view our letter to the Corp. Mitigation for loss of recreational opportunity is the burning question at the heart of industrial use of public lands. Is mitigation required? No! Does mitigation occur? Rarely! The decision to mitigate the loss of recreational opportunity is left up to the [...] 0

Recreational crabbing in the ocean is open from December 1st of the current year thru October 15 of the following year. Be sure to double check the opening and closing dates in the synopsis. Crabbing in Oregon’s Bays is open all year. Crabbing has be slow in Coos Bay this summer but as the calendar turns to August [...] 0