Anglers have been catching rockfish

Coos River - Coos Bay, OR (Coos County)


by OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Staff
5-21-2025
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Anglers have been catching rockfish around the jetties in the lower Coos Bay estuary, but you may need to move around to several spots to find actively biting fish. Best fishing is typically near slack tides with good fishing one day and fair fishing the next. A jig fished with a twister tail trailer is always a good option to catch bottomfish.

The 2025 daily general marine fish bag limit is 4 fish plus 2 lingcod with no retention of yelloweye or quillback rockfish. Anglers are not allowed to harvest cabezon until July.

Striped surfperch can be caught around the jetties and red-tail surfperch are being caught along the ocean beaches. Anglers have best success fishing with sand shrimp near the bottom.

Trout fishing opens in the Coos Basin rivers and streams on May 22. Anglers are restricted to fishing artificial flies and lures in streams and rivers above tidewater. The daily bag limit for trout fishing in streams is 2 trout over 8 inches per day.




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