Eel Tenmile STEP

If anyone has video or photos of the Coast Guard demonstration, please post them here.

Lunch served by Lakeside Women’s Club! Thank you!

Photo with fish, fish cleaning station, and grand prize: free rod and reel (and optional tackle box).

Off to the dock…but safety first - life jackets!!

Casting

Then the fish ID station.

Photos from Free Fishing Day, June 1, 2024. Stations included registration, fishing courtesy, knot tying.

Starts at 9 am today!

This Saturday, June 1st, starting at 9 am, bring your Kids and Grandkids to Tugman Park, north of Lakeside
for our near “guarantee” for kids to catch rainbow trout.
At the Jim Farmer Memorial Kids Free Fishing Day, kids and adults, after registering, will go through educational
stations and learn: fish ID, knot tying, fishing courtesy, spin casting, fly casting, water safety. And, be ready for the event
to be temporarily interrupted by United States Coast Guard with an awesome close-up helicopter/swimmer exercise in Eel Lake.
Then, Kids under 14yrs old can fish in a net pen full of hungry trout. Several are trophy sized.
IT’S NOT OVER YET. Once the kids have caught at least 1 trout, a photo station is next for folks who want smiling kid/fish pictures. Then attendees can visit the Fish Cleaning Station where hard-working volunteers will clean and put your trout in a bag of ice for the trip home. With bagged fish in hand, kids that have completed all the stations, will receive a FREE kid fishing rod or tackle box.

A barbequed hotdog/chips/water lunch and snacks will be for sale for hungry families after such an eventful morning.
This event is sponsored by the Oregon Parks and Recreation, Fish & Wildlife, Eel Tenmile STEP, TLBP, and many, many local businesses.
We wish everyone a safe Free Fishing Day Weekend and hope to
See you Saturday at Tugman Park!!
(Last registration at 1:30 pm).

Come one, come all!

Finally, the net was hung from the net pen and the pen was transported to the cove near the water plant, where it will stay until Free Fishing Day. It will be filled with smolt at the end of April. We will feed them until June 1st, at which time the pen will be moved to the fishing dock, where kids will be guaranteed to catch a fish out of it.

The net is not visible - it’s hanging underneath, in the water.

Next, ODFW upgraded the trap with fresh boards and converted the trap to a fish ladder.

We had our workday last Wednesday, April 10th. Here are photos of the net pen, which was pulled by boat to the boat ramp from across the lake, where it is stored/anchored most of the year. It needed a good scrubbing by power washer, as the lake birds had enjoyed it as a roost.

Monthly meeting this Thursday, 3/28. 5:30 pm potluck, 6:00 pm meeting.
204 N. 8th St in Lakeside, in the CFE bldg. Enter at east side of bldg.

Our smolt have arrived! Over 8,000 yearlings from Elk River Hatchery (south of Port Orford) have been raised and cared for since we spawned our fish last year.

Upcoming event.

Spawning Day at the trap, Feb 7, 2024

No trap work party tomorrow.

Paint party scheduled for tomorrow, Sat, Oct 7th, is postponed for now.

Come one, come all! Please join us for a painting party at the trap. This Saturday, Oct 7th at 9 am. We are trying to beat the rain coming in in a few days! Please bring a roller or a brush if you have one to spare and dress accordingly. If anyone has a safety step ladder, that would be appreciated, too. Painting the underside of the roof will be involved. We will be focusing on the covered area of the trap (not the shed yet), and the STEP signage.

We will try to have a work party every Wed morning at 10 am from now on.

Thank you everyone for participating in our first Trap work party in many years!! We are back!!

STEP meeting this Th, Sept 28th, 5:30 pm. Potluck then meeting. At TLBP office - 200 N 8th, Lakeside.

Salmon Derby Sept 9 and 10.