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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 Tied Oregon primary race decided by rolling dice ... Two drivers die in single-vehicle crashes ... Medford swim fans want indoor pool ... Tied Oregon primary race decided by rolling dice ... Two drivers die in single-vehicle crashes ... Medford swim fans want indoor pool ... FISHING REPORT Fishing Report: Friday, June 17 Comment MailTribune.com Writer Posted Jun. 17, 2016 at 12:01 AM Posted Jun. 17, 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 work fine for bottomfishing and a little bit of chinook salmon fishing for those giving it an early shot. Five-knot winds and two-foot swells are forecast for today, followed Saturday by 10-knot winds and four-foot wind waves Saturday. Sunday will see the wind increase to 20 knots and the wind waves top off at six feet. It's almost identical to last weekend, so set your bearings accordingly. 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. Jigging just off kelp beds and on rock humps is good throughout the South Coast. The halibut season out of Brookings is open south of Humbug Mountain. Catches in water around 200 feet and due west of the Thomas Creek bridge have been good for charters and private boaters using big jigs or large sardines bumped off the bottom. The ocean off Southern Oregon is open to chinook salmon fishing, but not much is happening yet. The fin-clipped coho season opens June 25, and that should draw some interest that first weekend. The ocean and bays are open to crabbing coastwide, but ocean crabbing has been slow. Nice morning minus tides are forecast all week for clammers, with the best tides today through Sunday. 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 and was listed Thursday at 86 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 in the beginning of the month, 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 was listed at five feet shy of full Thursday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is releasing 325 cfs of water, which is greater than the inflow of 172 cfs. DIAMOND: The lake is fishing very well 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 last week, and they all must be released unharmed. The tigers are undersized and should be handled as gently as possible. EMIGRANT: The lake was listed Thursday as 87 percent full. 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 69 percent full Thursday. Another 3,000 legal-sized trout were released this past week, as were 5,000 tiger trout that are undersized and must be released unharmed if caught. The algae bloom of earlier this month seems to have dissipated, and lake clarity has improved this past week. Fish PowerBait for a mix of holdover rainbows, landlocked chinook and tiger trout, which must be released unharmed. Fishing around the springs is best. 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 hair to 66 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 earlier this month. Bass fishing is very good. The lake has dropped a hair to 69 percent full. LOST CREEK: The lake is starting to drop now that inflows are outstripping outflows. Fishing is good for the 10,000 legal-sized trout and 1,075 trophy trout stocked there this past week. That's the last trout stocking scheduled for Lost Creek until October. 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 jumping around the mid-70s this week. 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 has improved after 3,225 legal-sized rainbows and 425 pounders were stocked earlier this month 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 earlier this month, and that's the last stocking scheduled for this summer. Use worms under bobbers, PowerBait and small spoons slowly retrieved. RIVER OUTLOOK ROGUE: Spring chinook fishing is slower than it should be river-wide, and early summer steelhead are still trickling in, but a good showing of big summers in the lower river is promising. The middle Rogue is dead, and the lower Rogue's late-run spring chinook fishing is a dud. That keeps the upper Rogue as the best bet, because the action isn't good enough to get more than a couple anglers fishing the Hatchery Hole dike each morning. That's a clear sign that springers are few and far between. But that doesn't keep the guides from hitting a few fish daily in the far upper Rogue, where Kwikfish and MagLip plugs are doing well for springers, but moss in the water is becoming more frustrating. Check the plugs regularly to keep them clean. Back-bouncing roe and sandshrimp or straight roe is working well, particularly in the tops of holes and the deeper inside turns on gravel bars. Bank fishing is slow. Flows in the upper Rogue are down to 2,400 cfs out of Lost Creek Lake. The best action is in migration lanes on overcast days, and this weekend's cooler, cloudier conditions should help catches. 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 2,660 cfs, with flows at the old Gold Ray Dam down to 2,550 cfs. Just 112 new springers reached Cole Rivers Hatchery in the past week, upping the total to date to a measly 1,019, well under half the 10-year running average. Another 50 summer steelhead reached the hatchery this past week, bumping the early-run total to 68 steelhead. That's still shy of what's needed to start targeting these fish. However, a good showing of summers in the lower Rogue shows they are coming. These early-run fish bolt to the upper Rogue, and a good percentage of them are 8- to 10-pound hatchery fish. In the lower Rogue, plunkers and boat anglers largely struck out again 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. Flows at Agness were down to 3,200 cfs Thursday. 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