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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 Pioneer Mike II dedication Saturday ... Transient who made racist comments known to Ashland police ... 18 students fraudulently earned certification at Abdill ... Pioneer Mike II dedication Saturday ... Transient who made racist comments known to Ashland police ... 18 students fraudulently earned certification at Abdill ... FISHING REPORT Fishing Report: Friday, July 1 Comment MailTribune.com Writer Posted Jul. 1, 2016 at 12:01 AM Posted Jul. 1, 2016 at 12:01 AM » Social News OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: The ocean off Southern Oregon will be quite surly this weekend, starting with 35-knot winds and eight-foot wind waves today. Things will get better but still not good Saturday, with 15-knot winds and six-foot wind waves. Sunday will bring 20-knot winds. Limits of ling cod are harder to come by, but catches of lings and black rockfish are still good out of Coos Bay and Brookings. Jigging just off kelp beds and on rock humps is good along the South Coast. Anglers can keep one cabezon a day beginning today. More anglers are starting to shift over to ocean salmon fishing now that the chinook are starting to show themselves, and the coho season is in full swing. Anglers are catching plenty of coho around Brookings, but only fin-clipped coho can be kept as part of the two-salmon bag limit. The chinook are biting deeper in the water column and are more prevalent from Brookings south to the California border. Be careful not to stray into California waters. The halibut season out of Brookings is open south of Humbug Mountain. Catches in water around 200 feet deep 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. Tuna fishing was hot earlier this week out of Charleston, where anglers running 25 to 30 miles out were averaging 7.5 tuna apiece. A few tuna have been caught out of Newport as well this past week. Look for water 58 degrees and warmer. Current shift daily. The ocean and bays are open to crabbing coastwide, and ocean crabbing has improved along the South Coast. Males are molting now, so meat density can be low. Early-morning minus tides start today and get progressively later in the morning, but their intensities will drop off. That still bodes well for Fourth of July weekend clamming. Razor clamming is closed south of the Siuslaw River 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 and was listed Thursday at 79 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, but electric trolling motors are fine. APPLEGATE: Fishing has been good for a mix of recently stocked, legal-sized rainbow trout and holdover trout running 16-plus inches. The lake hasn't received any new trout since 8,000 legal-sized trout were released in the middle of the reservoir in early June. That hasn't deterred anglers, particularly off points high in the reservoir and in the Seattle Bar area. 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 10 feet shy of full Thursday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continues to release 325 cfs of water, and that led to a three-foot drop in elevation this past week. DIAMOND: The lake is fishing very well for rainbows, with PowerBait and worms out-fishing trolling. Fly-fishing chironomid patterns with long leaders is working well, especially on cloudy days. Use long leaders. The rainbows are spread out. Mornings are more productive, but fishing has been decent all day on cloudy days. Another 300,000 fingerlings were stocked recently and should be avoided until they are of legal eight-inch size. Also be careful when releasing tiger trout, all of which must be released unharmed. EMIGRANT: The lake was listed Thursday at 81 percent full, dropping 3 percent in the past week. 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 or up in the cool waters of the Emigrant Arm. Bass are biting. 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 submerged willows in the Emigrant Arm. FISH: The lake dropped a hair in the past week and was at 68 percent full Thursday. Another 3,000 legal-sized trout were released two weeks ago, as were 5,000 tiger trout that are undersized and must be released unharmed if caught. The algae bloom of earlier this summer seems to have dissipated, allowing for very good clarity throughout the lake. Fish PowerBait for a mix of holdover rainbows, landlocked chinook. Tiger trout as big as 18 inches have been caught. Fishing around the springs is best. HOWARD PRAIRIE: The lake is fishing well for people in anchored boats using 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 being caught, but rainbows eclipsing 20 inches continue to be caught with regularity in deeper water. The lake has dropped a hair to 64 percent full. HYATT: Trout and bass fishing has improved, with bass fishing far better than trout fishing because bass out-number trout. Anything red works for bass, especially around the Orchard and in the bay near the BLM ramp. Not much size to these largemouth, though. The lake dropped slightly this past week to 66 percent full. LOST CREEK: The lake is starting to drop rather significantly now that inflows are well below outflows, but there is still plenty of water for the July Fourth weekend. Fishing is good for the 10,000 legal-sized trout and 1,075 trophy trout stocked there two weeks ago. 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 still jumping around the mid-70s. Fish for largemouth in the submerged willows and for smallmouth off rocky points. The lake was listed Thursday at 22 feet below full pool, four feet lower than last week. LAKE OF THE WOODS: The lake is 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 improved after 3,225 legal-sized rainbows and 425 pounders were stocked last month at the county boat ramp. The lake is dropping but water clarity remains very good. EXPO: The pond near the outdoor stage got 1,000 legal-sized trout last 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 still slow and frustrating, but the return of wild springers to the keeper category today downstream of Dodge Bridge will help there, while the middle Rogue remains slow for salmon and steelhead, and the lower Rogue has just started to turn on for early-run fall chinook in the Rogue bay. That makes the upper Rogue the best bet for a mix of late-run spring chinook and early-run summer steelhead. Downstream of Dodge Bridge will get the most attention beginning today because of the ability to keep wild chinook. Three out of four chinook caught so far this season have been wild upstream of Fishers Ferry. Now the upper deadline is Dodge Bridge. Those fishing smaller Kwikfish or MagLip lures like 3.5 or even 4.5 will have the best bet for catching either a springer or an early-run summer. Back-bouncing roe and sandshrimp is also a good bet. Flows in the upper Rogue are down to 1,950 cfs today out of Lost Creek Lake, and the flows get dropped to 1,650 cfs Sunday. That will drop the flow at Dodge Bridge to under 2,000 cfs, and slightly less as you progress downstream thanks to irrigation withdrawals. Flows at Agness will be down to around 2,250 cfs. Another 223 new springers reached Cole Rivers Hatchery in the past week, the highest to date in a pretty vapid run that numbers just 1,395 fish. That's well under one-third of the 10-year running average and by far the worst in at least a decade. The nine springers recycled to Gold Hill last Friday doesn't rate as helping. Another 115 summer steelhead reached the hatchery this past week, bumping the early-run total to 251 steelhead. That's well above the 10-year average of 151 fish to date and the best in three years. That's enough to get some anglers fishing worms, plugs and large flies for them. Early-run summer steelhead are some of the biggest fish in the run, with hatchery fish in the 8- to 10-pound range somewhat common. With a few 19-inchers, though, the early run also brings some of the smallest mature summer steelhead in the Rogue. In the lower Rogue, anglers were somewhat surprised to start running into bonafide fall chinook in the bay last Friday, and catches have inched up daily. Trolling the Rogue Blade set-up with smaller anchovies has been working well. Most of the catches have been lower in the bay. Another 2,375 legal-sized trout were stocked this week in several locations in and around Union Creek along the far upper Rogue. These releases will continue weekly through Labor Day. 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 and far upper tributaries. 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