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0 of 3 Premium Clicks used this month SUBSCRIBE Print + Online Subscriber Activation | Register x Forgot Password | Need an Account? e-edition | subscribe | newsletter | deals Classifieds Jobs Autos Real Estate FEATURED » NEWS NOW Blaze severely damages northwest Medford warehouse ... Concealed-gun ruling may fuel Oregon legislation in 2017 ... Medford builder Louis Mahar II arrested for assault ... Blaze severely damages northwest Medford warehouse ... Concealed-gun ruling may fuel Oregon legislation in 2017 ... Medford builder Louis Mahar II arrested for assault ... FISHING REPORT Fishing Report: Friday, June 10 Comment MailTribune.com Writer Posted Jun. 10, 2016 at 12:01 AM Posted Jun. 10, 2016 at 12:01 AM » Social News OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: The ocean off Southern Oregon will be calm today, and it will turn progressively windier and choppier as the weekend progresses, but that should be OK for bottomfishing. Five-knot winds and two-foot swells are forecast for today, followed Saturday by 10- to 15-knot winds and five-foot wind waves Saturday. Sunday has the same seas but winds up to 20 knots. Limits of lings are becoming a little harder to come by, but catches of them and black rockfish are still solid out of Coos Bay, Brookings and Gold Beach. Jigging just off kelp beds is very good. The halibut season out of Brookings is open south of Humbug Mountain, though effort has been somewhat light. Look for some early action north of Brookings in water close to 200 feet. The ocean off Southern Oregon is now open to chinook salmon fishing, but not much is happening yet. The fin-clipped coho season opens June 25. The ocean and bays are open to crabbing coastwide, but ocean crabbing has been slow. Today is expected to bring a decent morning minus tide for clammers, but that's the only one of the week. Razor clamming is closed south of Yahats because of domoic acid levels, but bay clams and butter clams are available coastwide. Mussels are open statewide as well. Before digging, check the shellfish hotline at 1-800-448-2474. LAKE OUTLOOK AGATE: The lake is dropping slowly but consistently and was listed Thursday at 89 percent full. Fishing is fair for a mix of bass, crappie and perch. No trout stockings are planned this year. Most of the boat action has been high up in the reservoir around submerged willows, especially on cloudy days. No gas motors are allowed. APPLEGATE: Fishing is very good for a mix of recently stocked, legal-sized rainbow trout and holdover trout running 16-plus inches. The lake got 8,000 legal-sized trout two weeks ago, and those are the last trout planned for the lake through summer. All the boat ramps are open and operational. Trollers and still-fishers off the bank high up in the reservoir are doing well. Bank anglers using worms under bobbers in the Seattle Bar area are seeing consistent action, but mostly for smaller rainbows. The lake is dropping consistently now and was listed at 3 feet shy of full Thursday as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers releases 325 cfs of water, which is greater than the inflow. DIAMOND: The lake is warming, and fishing is very good for rainbows, with PowerBait and worms out-fishing trolling. Fly-fishing chironomid patterns is working well for fly-fishers, especially on cloudy days. Use long leaders. The rainbows are spread out. Mornings are more productive, but fishing has been decent all day during cloudy days. Another 300,000 fingerlings are scheduled for stocking later this month. The first tiger trout were stocked Monday, and they all must be released unharmed. The tigers are undersized, as well. EMIGRANT: The lake dropped significantly this past week thanks to greater irrigation draws and was 90 percent full Thursday. The 1,000 legal-sized trout stocked there last month have dispersed, but the cove off the ramp is still the best bet for trout. Bass are starting to bite thanks to extremely warm weather. Fish crankbaits, plastic worms or grubs very slowly around structure on cloudy days. Fishing plastic worms, jigs or grubs is very good in and around the submerged willows of the Emigrant Arm. FISH: The lake was down to 72 percent full Thursday. Another 3,000 legal-sized trout are set for release here next week, and fishing has been best near the marina and the Forest Service boat ramp. However, a pretty large algae bloom has harmed water clarity. Fish PowerBait for a mix of holdover rainbows, landlocked chinook and tiger trout, which must be released unharmed. Fishing around the springs is best and will remain that way for most of the season, particularly during the algae bloom. HOWARD PRAIRIE: The lake is fishing well for people in anchored boats fishing rainbow or chartreuse PowerBait off the bottom near shore. Trolling has picked up with Triple Teasers, Tasmanian Devils and Wedding Ring lures. Lots of holdover trout in the 16- to 19-inch range are getting caught, with another 5,000 legals set for stocking there next week. The lake has dropped a smidge to 67 percent full. HYATT: Trout and bass fishing has improved. The lake got its first 6,000 legals and 400 trophy trout last month at the BLM boat ramp, and another 5,000 legals made it into the lake at the BLM ramp last week. Bass fishing is very good. The lake has dropped a hair to 71 percent full. LOST CREEK: The lake is starting to drop now that inflows are outstripping outflows. Fishing is good for the 10,000 recently stocked legal-sized trout and 800 trophy-sized rainbows stocked there last month. Another 25,000 legal-sized rainbows and 1,075 pound-sized rainbows were released three weeks ago. And next week the lake will get 10,000 legals and 1,075 pounders. Fishing is good with worms in the area where the Rogue flows into the lake above Peyton Bridge. Trollers should start with green Wedding Ring lures with a piece of worm. Landlocked salmon have been holding deeper than the trout. The lake's surface temperature is 69 degrees and should stay steady or drop this weekend. Fish largemouth in the submerged willows and smallmouth off rocky points. Smallmouth are also aggressively eating salmonflies dropping onto the surface near the dam, particularly around dusk. LAKE OF THE WOODS: The lake was fishing very well for a mix of rainbows, brown trout and perch near the resort with worms under bobbers and PowerBait off the bottom. WILLOW: Trout fishing is improving after 3,225 legal-sized rainbows and 425 pounders were stocked two weeks ago at the county boat ramp. Most of this weekend's catches will be around the county ramp where the stocking truck stopped. The lake is dropping. EXPO: The pond near the outdoor stage got another 1,000 legal-sized trout two weeks ago and that's the last stocking scheduled for this summer, so that will have to sustain the fishing there. Catches are good with worms under bobbers, PowerBait and small spoons slowly retrieved. RIVER OUTLOOK ROGUE: Spring chinook fishing is still slower than it should be river-wide because a small run of fish this season, and early summer steelhead really aren't showing themselves quite yet. That keeps the upper Rogue as the best bet by default, because the action isn't good enough to keep people interested at normally crowded locales like Casey State Park and the Hatchery Hole. In the upper Rogue, the spring chinook bite for driftboaters was decent this past week despite extremely hot weather. Algae continues to break off and clog hooks, and that's not a welcome adversary. Flows in the upper Rogue are holding at 2,850 cfs out of Lost Creek Lake. Some boat anglers are using Mag Lip 3.5 or K-15 Kwikfish lures with pink and chartreuse on them, while others are back-bouncing roe and sandshrimp combinations. Live sandshrimp are best. The best action is in migration lanes on overcast days, and this weekend's cooler, cloudier conditions should help catches. Focus on deeper water where you can't see bottom on the inside turns of gravel bars. As the water drops, it can be best to stay in a productive migration lane and wait for the chinook to come to you. All wild spring chinook must be released upstream of Fishers Ferry boat ramp. Downstream of the ramp near Gold Hill, anglers can keep wild chinook as part of the two-fish daily limit. But there is very little interest among anglers in that stretch. Flows Thursday afternoon at Dodge Bridge were hovering around 3,330 cfs, with flows at the old Gold Ray Dam site up a tick to 3,136 cfs. Spring chinook migration is something of a mystery. The light returns to date are likely a combination of three years of drought, previously poor ocean conditions and a die-off of smolts at Cole Rivers Hatchery four years ago that mostly would have returned this year. Just 82 new springers reached Cole Rivers Hatchery in the past week, upping the total to date to a measly 907. The 10-year running average is 2,250 fish by this week. Another 17 summer steelhead reached the hatchery this past week, but there aren't enough in the river yet to really start targeting them. In the lower Rogue, plunkers and boat anglers have largely struck out this past week. A few boats have been trolling for late-run spring chinook in the bay, and a few fish are getting caught daily. Early summer steelhead fishing also is light in the lower Rogue. Flows at Agness have remained pretty steady and were right at 3,819 cfs Thursday. APPLEGATE: The river is open to trout fishing. All wild trout must be released unharmed. No fin-clipped rainbows are stocked there. CHETCO: The river is open to trout fishing. Look for some sea-run cutthroat in tidewater. MailTribune.com Writer Posted Jun. 10, 2016 at 12:01 AM » Comment or view comments Reader Reaction » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. Southern Oregon Directory Featured Businesses Loading... 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