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Crab's coming

Fresh Dungeness crab will be hitting Rogue Valley fish markets and restaurants within days, with Oregon's commercial crabbing season opening Monday.

Young bass-caster among the best again

A Jacksonville teenager picked up a $1,500 college scholarship Saturday by placing third in a national cast-off among the country's best bass-casters.

Chinook chasers back in business on the Chetco

Chetco River anglers are targeting fall chinook salmon after this week's rains swelled the river enough to open fishing for the first time this fall.

Wildlife group ponies up to test illegal shiners from Diamond Lake

A Portland-based outdoor nonprofit will foot the $4,000 bill for sensitive tests on illegally stocked golden shiners found in Diamond Lake and elsewhere, a key next move for police investigating this environmental crime.

Chetco closure meant to aid stranded chinook

BROOKINGS — Sport-fishing will remain closed indefinitely along most of the Chetco River as low stream flows continue to have chinook salmon kegged in a lower river hole, where they remain ripe for stress caused by fishing.

Diamond Lake reward offered in golden shiner release; 'bubble fishery' extended

A reward of up to $8,300 is being offered for helping police catch whoever released golden shiners in Diamond Lake this past spring, less than two years after the lake was poisoned to cleanse it of tui chubs.

Not making much splash

BROOKINGS — Long, sharp hooks fastened to thick lines pulled by the weathered hands of commercial fishermen like John Terebesi are necessities among Oregon's troll fleet when they ply the Pacific for Oregon's signature fish.

Bad weather threatens to shrink Chetco bubble fishery

BROOKINGS — State fish managers will decide as early as today whether to add more days to Southern Oregon's only ocean chinook salmon season this year, which has been threatened by foul weather.

Long lines expected for last-minute hunting licenses

Procrastinating hunters have until Friday night to buy tags for some of the more popular Western Oregon hunting seasons, including the general rifle season for black-tailed buck deer.

Steelhead rule-changer did it for others

One of the men responsible for allowing anglers next year to keep a wild Illinois River winter steelhead for the first time in 17 years says he won't take advantage of the new rule.

North coast anglers can keep cutthroats

FOREST GROVE — Trout caught in north coast rivers and streams can be keepers for the first time since 1997 under new sport fishing regulations for 2009.

New state rules allow Illinois River anglers to keep one steelhead a day

Winter steelhead anglers on a stretch of the Illinois River will be able to keep some wild steelhead for the first time in 17 years under new sport-fishing rules adopted Friday in Forest Grove.

Two-halibut limit this weekend may end all-depth season

Ocean anglers will be able to keep two Pacific halibut Saturday and Sunday and earn access to deep-water halibut grounds both days, which could become the final days for all-depth Pacific halibut fishing on the central coast this year.

Halibut catch this weekend is a twofer

Seats on Oregon's deep-water charter boats will be the hottest tickets on the Oregon Coast this weekend as anglers prepare to double their fun — and their catch — of Pacific halibut.

Take steps to prevent E-10 damage

The threat of damage to marine engines from ethanol-blended gasoline makes it more necessary than ever to winterize powerboats, authorities say.

He could be the best all-around outdoor dude

BROOKINGS — All Jeremy Scott wanted was a new pair of boots.

Two youth-only pheasant hunts are on tap in September

Young guns with an eye on the calender and a hand on their shotgun can have two special pheasant hunts beginning next week for less than the cost of a tank of gas.

Return of the halfpounder

GOLD BEACH — Standing in ankle-deep water on Dunkelberger Bar, Jerry Cornish notes the tell-tale wiggle on the end of his fishing rod that signals one of the 124,832 reasons to feel good about fishing the lower Rogue River again.

Record-setting reward being offered in elk-poaching case

GLENDALE — The largest reward ever offered for information in an Oregon big-game poaching case has yet to uncover the persons responsible for a string of elk-killings in the Glendale area.

Lucky angler lands dorado

BROOKINGS — Deckhand George Freitas was about to pull friend Jim Fuller's first tiny tuna onto the deck of the Summer Marie, when he inexplicably let go of the leader and started going berserk.

August 14, 2008