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 3 fish plus 2 lingcod with no retention of yelloweye or quillback rockfish. There is a one fish daily sub-bag limit for canary rockfish as part of the general marine bag limit. Anglers are allowed to harvest cabezon with a 1 fish daily sub-bag limit as part of the general marine bag limit.

The salmon daily bag limit in the Coos Basin increased from two to three fish in aggregate, one of which must be a hatchery salmon.

Anglers can harvest wild Chinook (maximum of 10 for the season) and hatchery Chinook . The wild coho season closed on October 10th. The limit increase applies to areas currently open to salmon fishing in the Coos Basin. For any questions on Salmon Fishing in the Coos or Coquille please call the Charleston office at 541-888-5515 (dial zero at the answer of the machine).

A few late running and relatively bright fall Chinook salmon may be caught, however, most fish have moved to the upper bay and rivers to spawn. The salmon bite is typically best a couple hours before and through the slack tide. Steelhead are just entering the main tributaries. Steelhead fishing is expected to improve with upcoming rain late the last week of November or early December in tradtional locations

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

Trout season closed Oct. 31.