Fall Chinook is picking up

Tillamook Bay - Bay City, OR (Tillamook County)


by OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Staff
9-17-2025
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Fall Chinook fishing continues to pick up in Tillamook Bay with fish being caught consistently thoughout the bay and tidwater. Tillamook Bay and the rivers that empty into it have reduced bag limits for wild fall Chinook this year. The limit for wild adults is 1/day and 2/ season as part of the daily salmon and steelhead bag limit. Check the regulation updates online for more details.

A wild coho salmon retention fishery opened in Tillamook Bay on September 10th. The Bay is open for wild coho three days a week (Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays) through October 26th. The bag limit is 1 wild adult coho per day and 3 for the season as part of the daily salmon/steelhead bag limit. See regulation updates online for more details. Coho fishing has been a little slow thus far but they should be showing up anytime now.

Sea-run cutthroat trout fishing in the bay and tidewaters is slow as most fish have moved upstream into the rivers, but there is still some opportunity.