OUTDOORS BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Youth fishing event Saturday at Alton Baker Park Alton Baker Park is located in Eugene, Oregon, United States, near Autzen Stadium. It features duck ponds, bicycle trails, and a dog park, and directly touches the Ferry Street Bridge. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) is an agency of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon responsible for programs protecting Oregon fish and wildlife resources and their habitats. will stock the Alton Baker Park canoe canal with 1,500 rainbow trout rainbow trout Species (Oncorhynchus mykiss) of fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae) noted for spectacular leaps and hard fighting when hooked. It has been introduced from western North America to many other countries. for a Youth Angling Enhancement Program to be held there Saturday. ODFW ODFW Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife staff and volunteers will be on hand from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. to provide "loaner" fishing equipment and angling instruction. Anglers under the age of 13 can fish for free. A juvenile license is required for anglers 14-17 years of age. "This event is for kids, so while the standard fishing regulations will apply, we ask adults to leave the fishing to the young ones for a few days," ODFW biologist Erik Moberly said. Funding for the special trout release was provided in part by the Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation. Banff Mountain Film Festival tickets now available Tickets are now on sale for the 30th annual Banff Mountain Film Festival, to be held April 21-22 at Eugene's McDonald Theatre. Local sponsors for the collection of the year's best short films featuring mountain culture, environment and sport are the UO Outdoor Program, REI and Pepsi Bottling of Eugene. Screenings begin at 7 p.m. each night, and feature a different lineup of films. A description of films can be found at www.banffmountainfestivals.ca/tourhost/2005/na/films/. Tickets ($10 general admission; $8 UO students and OP Co-op members) are available at EMU tickets and REI Eugene. Tickets West also sells tickets but does not offer the UO discount. Prices at the door will be $2 more. FISHING, HUNTING & WILDLIFE VIEWING Trout stocking report Dorena Lake: Scheduled to be stocked this week with 6,300 legal-sized hatchery hatchery a commercial establishment dedicated to the hatching of bird eggs to provide day old chicks and poults to the poultry industry. hatchery liquid the contents of unfertilized eggs. Used in petfood manufacture. rainbow trout. Junction City Pond: Due to receive nearly 1,000 trout, including 125 of the larger- and trophy-sized hatchery fish. Carter and Cleawox lakes: Will be stocked with legal-sized trout this week. Other angling highlights Rivers and streams: The catch-and-release trout fishery on the lower McKenzie River should be good. Fair numbers of winter steelhead are showing up in the Siuslaw River between Wildcat Creek boat ramp and the Whittaker Creek Campground; Steelhead fishing is open in this section through Saturday. A few spring chinook Chinook, indigenous people of North America Chinook (shĭn  k`, chĭ–), Native American tribe of the Penutian linguistic stock. are being caught in the
Umpqua River around Scottsburg and in the lower Willamette River at
Portland. Striper and shad shad, fish, Alosa sapidissima, of the family Clupeidae (herring family), found along the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Florida and successfully introduced on the Pacific coast. The shad is one of the largest (6 lb/2. fishing is just beginning in the Umpqua and
should pick up through April.
Lakes and reservoirs: Cottage Grove and Dexter reservoirs were stocked with hatchery trout last week, as were the Cottage Grove, Creswell and Alton Baker ponds. All should still provide good opportunities to catch fish. Fishing for warm-water species in coastal lakes is starting to improve; Tenmile Lakes has seen some nice catches of bass. Marine zone: Boat anglers along the central coast report good catches of black, blue and yellowtail rockfish rockfish, member of the large family Scorpaenidae (rockfishes and scorpionfishes), carnivorous fish inhabiting all seas and especially abundant in the temperate waters of the Pacific. Rockfishes are found among rocks and reefs. and lingcod lingcod Commercially popular fish species (Ophiodon elongatus) that is strictly marine, found along the Pacific coast of North America. It is a voracious predator with a large mouth and caninelike teeth. . Fishing for lingcod, perch and rockfish is good this time of year from the jetties and rocky points. Wildlife viewing Best bets: Three species of garter snake occur in the Willamette Valley. Much variability in coloration exists in garter snakes, but the best identifying characteristic is a stripe down the middle of the snake's back. No other snake species in western Oregon has a stripe down the middle. A good place to see these harmless snakes harmless snakes see snake. is on gravel roads and trails through wetland areas. Wildlife areas in the Willamette Valley, including Fern Ridge and Finley, are good areas to see these beautiful animals. Best viewing conditions are on warm, sunny days. - Compiled from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Register-Guard reports. Updated information is available by logging on to www.registerguard.com/news/outdoors_front.php. CALENDAR To submit events The deadline for calendar event listings is 10 a.m. Monday. Submit listings to: Outdoor Editor, P.O. Box 10188, Eugene OR 97440 or e-mail: mstahlberg@guardnet.com. Unless otherwise noted, events are free. Adventure trips TODAY UO Outdoor Program: "Trip Initiator's Clinic" prepares participants to organize outdoor adventure trips using Outdoor Program vehicles and equipment, 5:30 p.m., Room 138 in the Erb Memorial Union basement. Details: 346-4365. Bicycling SATURDAY Greater Eugene Area RiderS (GEARS): The club is offering 30-, 60- and 80-mile ride options in the Mohawk/Brownsville area, 9 a.m., Alton Baker Park. The Obsidians: Sharon Ritchie will lead a 30-mile ride to Orchard Point. Details, sign-up at the Eugene Family YMCA YMCA in full Young Men's Christian Association Nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character among its members. , 2055 Patterson St. SUNDAY GEARS: 30-, 45- and 60-mile ride options are planned in the Deerhorn-Walterville-Mohawk area; 9 a.m. at Alton Baker Park. Birding SATURDAY Lane County Audubon Society: Jill Hubbard will lead a bird walk at Skinner Butte. Carpool car·pool n. also car pool 1. An arrangement whereby several participants or their children travel together in one vehicle, the participants sharing the costs and often taking turns as the driver. 2. from South Eugene High School South Eugene High School is a public high school located in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It was founded as Eugene High School around 1900, and was located at Willamette Street and West 11th Avenue in a brick building that later served as Eugene's city hall. , 19th and Patterson streets, at 8 a.m. Boating SATURDAY-SUNDAY G.I. Joe's: Boat Show featuring new and used boats, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., G.I. Joe's, 1030 Green Acres Road, Eugene. Fishing WEDNESDAY G.I. Joe's: Shane Groshong will conduct a seminar on sturgeon sturgeon, primitive fish of the northern regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Unlike evolutionarily advanced fishes, it has a fine-grained hide, with very reduced scalation, a mostly cartilaginous skeleton, upturned tail fins, and a mouth set well back on the fishing in the Willamette and Columbia rivers, 7 p.m., G.I. Joe's, 1030 Green Acres Road, Eugene. SATURDAY G.I. Joe's: Todd Hannah will be discuss tips and tactics for fishing the Umpqua River for salmon, steelhead, shad, sturgeon, striped bass striped bass moronesaxatilis. and smallmouth bass, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., G.I. Joe's, 1030 Green Acres Road, Eugene. Gear THURSDAY G.I. Joe's: GPS seminar by Magellan's factory representative Mike Ullock, 7 p.m., G.I. Joe's, 1030 Green Acres Road, Eugene. Hiking WEDNESDAY The Obsidians: David and Shelly Call will lead a 4.2-mile hike at Cape Perpetua. Details, sign-up at the Eugene Family YMCA, 2055 Patterson St. THURSDAY The Obsidians: Royal Murdock will lead a three-mile sunrise/moonset hike at Mount Pisgah. Details, sign-up at the YMCA, 2055 Patterson St. FRIDAY The Obsidians: Jane Hackett - seven-mile hike to Three Mile Lake. Details, sign-up at the YMCA, 2055 Patterson St. SATURDAY The Obsidians: Sherwood Jefferies and Janet Jacobsen - 4.8-mile Alsea and Green Peak Falls hike. Details, sign-up at the YMCA, 2055 Patterson St. SUNDAY The Obsidians: Barbara Revere Revere, city (1990 pop. 42,786), Suffolk co., E Mass., a residential suburb of Boston, on Massachusetts Bay; settled c.1630, set off from Chelsea and named for Paul Revere 1871, inc. as a city 1914. - 4.4-mile Kentucky Falls hike. Details, sign-up at the YMCA, 2055 Patterson St. MONDAY The Obsidians: Lana Landstrom - one-mile urban wildlife field trip with naturalist David Walp. Details, sign-up at the YMCA, 2055 Patterson St. TUESDAY The Obsidians: Dan Christiansen - seven-mile Mary's Peak hike. Details, sign-up at the YMCA, 2055 Patterson St. Mushrooming THURSDAY Cascade Mycological mycological pertaining to or arising from mycology. Society: Truffles will be the focus of a presentation by Matt Trappe, a co-author of "Truffles of North America," 7:30 p.m., Room 115 Science (Building 16) at Lane Community College, 4000 E. 30th Ave., Eugene. Details: Kyle Hammon, 463-5447. Nature SATURDAY Native Plant Society of Oregon: Rhoda Love will lead a one-mile wildflower wildflower Any flowering plant that grows without intentional human aid. Wildflowers are the source of all cultivated garden varieties of flowers. A wildflower growing where it is unwanted is considered a weed. walk, 10 a.m. at the Mount Pisgah Arboretum The Mount Pisgah Arboretum (85 ha / 209 acres) is a non-profit arboretum and botanical garden located within the Howard Buford Recreation Area (930 ha / 2,300 acre), between the Coast Fork of the Willamette River and the slopes of Mount Pisgah near Eugene-Springfield, Oregon, Visitors' Center, located off Seavey Loop Road. Donation requested: $3. Details: 747-1504. Paddle sports TODAY UO Outdoor Program: Kayak pool practice session, 7:30 p.m., Gerlinger Pool on campus. Cost: $5 public, $3 UO students and OP members. Call 346-4365 to reserve a spot. SUNDAY Oregon River Sports Paddle Club: Plans an Easter paddle from Siltcoos Lake to the ocean. Details, RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. : Oregon River Sports, (541) 334-0696. Shooting sports MONDAY Fort Umpqua Muzzleloaders: Planning for the annual Frog Holler Rendezvous will be among the items discussed at the group's monthly meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Dorris Ranch in Springfield. Details: Allyn Wilson, 935-8528 (evenings). |
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