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68 °F Forecast | Road Cams Monday, June 28, 2004 Today's News | Classifieds | Autos | Homes | Jobs | Tempo | Health | Community | Home Delivery SECTIONS Home Page Local News Sports Business Obituaries Life Opinion - Politics Tempo AP News Weather Classified Archives Site Map SPECIAL SECTIONS Since We Asked Outdoor Journal Prime Times Wellness Connection Readers' Choice Real Estate Showcase Joy Magazine Homelife Magazine Wedding Guide Rogue Valley's Finest EXTRA Newspaper in Education Personals Movie Times TV Times E The People MARKETPLACE Find a Car Find a Home Find a Job Classifieds Place an ad eSouthernOregon Automotive Communities Entertainment Publications Recreation Calendar CUSTOMER SERVICE Frequent Questions Advertising Information Home Delivery Employment Contact Us Media Kit Network Affiliate Oregon Road Conditions & Cams Email Story to a Friend June 24, 2004 Leftover big-game tags will be hot commodity July 1 Outdoor Notes By MARK FREEMAN Mail Tribune About 800 hunting tags that no one wanted this spring will be the hottest ticket in Oregon next Thursday during the state’s annual close-out sale on leftover big-game tags. Hunters will line up at point-of-sale licensing outlets across Oregon to participate in the annual sale of tags not allocated during the controlled-hunt process. Familiar hunts remain on the list of hunts with leftover tags available on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 10 a.m. Thursday. Tags that make it into the leftover sale historically are in low-desired hunts, usually because of access problems or because there are more tags than interested hunters. However, all the tags sell out by lunchtime in the leftover sale, and this year should be no different, says Anne Pressentin Young, spokeswoman for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Advertisement Last year, about 1,000 tags were offered, Pressentin Young says. Hunters can buy just one leftover tag per hunt series. However, people can buy tags either for themselves or for one other person. The leftover tags are in addition to the regular controlled or general-season tags in the same hunt series. Here are the hunts and available tags: 100 Series Buck Deer No. 142. Hood Unit: 240 tags, 33 maximum for non-residents. No. 144 Columbia Basin: 73 tags, 0 non-residents. 200 Series Elk No. 226A1. Powers Unit #1: 47 tags, 14 maximum for non-residents. No. 254X Mt. Emily Unit #1: 366 tags, 20 maximum for non-residents. 255X Walla Walla #1: 38 tags, 0 for non-residents. 600 Series Antlerless Deer 625T. North Sixes Youth: 25 tags, 4 maximum for non-residents. OREGON’S HALIBUT-LOVERS will get two bonus deep-water fishing days this week thanks to a quota leftover attributed to poor catches during bad weather this spring. The International Pacific Halibut Commission has allowed fishing Friday and Saturday in waters past the 40-fathom curve between Cape Falcon near Manzanita and Humbug Mountain near Port Orford. The commission allowed the extra days because more than 61,000 pounds remains on the spring halibut quota for this year’s deep-water fishery. The all-depth fishing days are highly prized by Oregon’s halibut anglers because it allows fishing in the deeper areas where more and larger halibut are found. The limit remains the first halibut more than 32 inches long a day, and up to six a year. Anglers are reminded that no canary or yelloweye rockfish can be kept while fishing in Oregon waters, and possession of groundfish like lingcod, rockfish or sablefish is banned June through September in waters outside of 40 fathoms while people are fishing. If this weekend’s anglers don’t gobble up the remainder of the quota, look for the following days to be added, in order, until the quota is depleted. The dates are: July 9, 10, 23 and 24. Any open days will be announced on the NOAA-Fisheries fishery hotline at (800)662-9825. Regardless of the deep-water rules, halibut fishing remains open seven days a week inside the 40-fathom curve from Cape Falcon to the Oregon/California border. Reach reporter Mark Freeman at 776-4470, or e-mail [email protected] Mail Tribune Home Local News | Sports | Business | Obituaries | Life Opinion - Politics | AP News | Archives | Site Map E Southern Oregon | Classified Copyright © 1997-2004 Mail Tribune. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions Website Feedback ADVERTISERS A D V E R T I S E R S RESOURCES Oregon Road Conditions & Cams SPECIAL SECTIONS Auto Finder Job Finder Home Finder Joy Magazine Homelife Magazine Tempo Readers' Choice Real Estate Showcase Since We Asked Food for Thought Wellness Connection Outdoor Journal Moving to Southern Oregon? Volunteer Opportunities Prime Times