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Steelhead, smallmouth fishing picks up
Anglers have begun looking to harvest summer steelheads on the north Umpqua River, and Smallmouth bass fishing has been steady on the main Umpqua.
Crawfish, crankbaits and worms have been the best bets for anglers on the Umpqua. Sturgeon fishing near the Umpqua Estuary has slowed.
Following is the weekly fishing report, compiled by fisheries and biologists associated with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and posted every Wednesday on its Web site:
SOUTHWEST ZONE
AGATE RESERVOIR: Fishing for largemouth bass and panfish should be good. At Agate, flies, crappie jigs and bait all work for crappie.
ALL SPORTS POND: Fishing for and bass and panfish should be good.
APPLEGATE RESERVOIR: Applegate Reservoir is stocked with rainbow trout.
Berkshire Trout Hatchery to stay open
NEW MARLBOROUGH This is a fish story with a happy ending. Yesterday afternoon, a representative from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service signed a Memorandum of Understanding with representatives from the Berkshire Trout Hatchery Foundation to allow the foundation to run the hatchery, keeping it open for the foreseeable future. The Berkshire Trout Hatchery, in the village of Hartsville, is, in many ways, one of the most important places in Berkshire County, not to mention one of the least known. It is one of the oldest trout hatcheries in the United States, created in 1914 through a gift from the John Sullivan Scully family. But the hatchery was privately owned for several years before that, according to LeRoy Thorpe, a member of the foundation's board of directors. "It's more than 100 years old, easily," he said.
Fishing Notebook: Most trout are not keepers
Pennsylvania anglers release well over half the trout they catch, according to a new study by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and Penn State University, which compared anglers fishing stocked streams for the first eight weeks of the 2005 trout season with those fishing wild trout streams mid-April to Labor Day in 2004. The stocked stream anglers averaged more than one fish per hour and released 63.1 percent of their catch, while the wild trout anglers averaged one brook or brown trout every two hours on large streams and two brook trout per hour on small streams, and released 92.7 percent of their catch. They preferred large over small streams by a ratio of 57.5 percent to 42.5 percent. More than 21 percent of the 2.1 million stocked stream trips were made on opening day weekend.
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