FISHING REPORT (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Notable catches: Otis Darnell , bluecat, 40 pounds; William Brown , 2 bluecats, 44, 46; Erik Nunnelley (Chester) bluecat, 58; Eddie Mall , 2 bluecats, 43.5, 51.5; Dan Fisher (Chesterfield), crappie, 2-8.Mini-series tournament April 15 results: 1. Charles Kline / David Davis , 9.75 pounds; 2. Bill Gibble / Gerald Lip cek , 8.67, big fish, 4.32; 3. Brad Sanderson / Louis White , 8.34.

Oregon Trooper Hits Speeding Ticket Jackpot (CNN)
Oregon State Trooper David Petersen pulled over six high performance sports cars -- four Ferraris, a Lamborghini and an Acura NSX. The drivers said they were on an annual road trip. "They just were all good little soldiers and pulled right over," a police spokesman said.

Where To Fish For Trout In Oregon In 2009 (KVAL Eugene)
Trout season opens in most parts of Oregon on Saturday. Here's the outlook for all of Oregon, searchable by region and alphabetized by lake and river.

Central Coast Fly Fishers More Than Just A Fishing Club (Newport News-Times)
Surf fishing along the Oregon coast isn't a common sight, and it's even rarer to see a dozen neoprene clad fly fishermen braving the icy Pacific waters in April to fling tufts of hair and feathers into the waves.

Speed Racing Group Stopped By Police In Oregon Coast Range (KTVB Boise)
HOOD RIVER, Ore. – Oregon State Police gave out a number of speeding tickets to a group of sports car racers in Oregon Thursday. Troopers said they spotted the cars speeding and passing in no-pass lanes on Highway 18 near Grand Ronde.

Oregon Trooper Reels In Line Of Ferraris, Lamborghini (CNN)
Stop, speed racers, stop.

Increasing Insurance Costs Could Curb Horse Rides On Oregon Beaches (Insurance Journal)
Once, stable owner Terry Swigart recalls, people could ride horses through the surf along Oregon's beaches with few restraints -- "a free-spirit-type thing.'" These days, though, the practice ...

New Apple IPhone Application Takes Cell Phone Owners To The Beach (PRWeb)
Get swept away by the sights and sounds of the world's top beaches directly on an Apple iPhone. Grab a few minutes solace no matter where you are and enjoy the waves lapping gently on the shores of picturesque places like Maui, Fiji, Cancun, or the Caribbean. Travel mentally when you can't travel there physically via a new iPhone app. (PRWeb Apr 22, 2009) Read the full story at ...

Seafood, Wine Blend On Northern Coast (Salem Statesman Journal)
Experience wine and seafood on the northern Oregon coast at the 27th Astoria Warrenton Crab, Seafood & Wine Festival from 4 to 9 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds, 92937 Walluski Loop in Astoria.

Geologists: 10- To 14% Chance Of Major Quake At Oregon Coast (KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Geologists say there is a 10 to 14 percent chance of a major earthquake and tsunami hitting the Oregon Coast within the next 50 years.

Danger Of Oregon Coast Tsunami Highter Than Thought (KTVB Boise)
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Scientists studying earthquakes off the Oregon Coast think there’s a 10-14 percent chance one could cause a tsunami within 50 years.

JUNKride Focuses Attention On Plastic Debris In Ocean (Newport News-Times)
The world's most enormous landfill isn't on land at all. It floats in the middle of the northern Pacific Ocean in two massive areas of ever-accumulating trash collectively known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Coast Residents Say No Offshore Oil' (Fort Bragg Advocate-News)
When Fort Bragg Mayor Doug Hammerstrom stood up to speak against increased ocean commercialization at a federal hearing in San Francisco last week, he asked local residents to stand with him.

Flight Risk (Metro Santa Cruz)
When word came to Moss Landing-based WildRescue that California brown pelicans were showing up in the mountains or wandering on roads far from the sea, wildlife paramedics set out to find them. They saw dozens of dead ones in the greater Monterey Bay area, said WildRescue founder Rebecca Dmytryk.

Roughing It For The Fun Of It In Costa Rica (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
My trip to the Osa Peninsula, a remote part of southern Costa Rica, was out of character. My foreign travels had been in pursuit of art, history and education.

(04/22) ENVIRONMENT: RESTORE THE SHORE (Surfline)
The growing presence of seawalls on San Diego coastlines is causing beaches to disappear

Women's Track Team To See West Coast Teams In Oregon (Central Michigan Life)
The women's track team will send 12 athletes to the west coast this weekend to compete in the Oregon Relays. The rest of the team will stay in Michigan for the Hillsdale Relays. Both meets are two-day events beginning Friday and concluding Saturday. The athletes traveling to Oregon will see competition from across the western United States and head coach Karen Lutzke said it is a great motivator.

'Bad Boy' Orcas Have Arrived Off The Oregon Coast (The Oregonian)
Killer whales make their annual appearance - bad news for other whales, seals and sea lions

âPolitics Of Sand' Documentary Will Be Shown May 3 At Hatfield (Newport News-Times)
A free showing of the documentary, “Politics of Sand: The Battle to Save Oregon's Beaches for the Public,� is scheduled for 2 p.m., Sunday, May 3, at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport.

Pacific Halibut Season Begins May 1 On Coast (Newport News-Times)
Pacific halibut season opens on the Oregon coast Friday, May 1. The central coast fishery, from Cape Falcon just north of Manzanita to Humbug Mountain near Port Orford, is a very popular fishery among Oregonians.