Rougher weather/waves warrant caution when fishing along the jetties, however, some rockfish can still be caught 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.

Chinook salmon have moved through the bay and have spawned in tributaries or been spawned at the Morgan Creek and Noble Creek hatcheries and are no longer available to be caught. The limit through 2025 remains three fish, one of which must be a hatchery fish, thus no more than two wild/natural fish in the bag. The limit increase applies to areas currently open to salmon fishing in the Coos Basin. The wild coho season closed on October 10th. 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).

On occasion stray feeder Chinook from the ocean may be caught in the lower Coos Bay. The salmon bite is typically best a couple hours before and through the high slack tide. Steelhead are now showing up at typical locations, (W.F. Millicoma River, S. Coos River) . Steelhead fishing is expected to improve notably if rains continue and should be available to be caught in December in traditional locations

Coho spawning is at peak in the Coos Basin. it is a good time to go out to spawning streams for viewing of fish with family/friends. Please be protective of fish and keep sufficient distance when viewing spawning coho to avoid disturbing them. Medium sized streams including Marlow Creek, Glenn Creek, Daniels Creek, and W.F. Millicoma R. upstream of Joes Creek are good locations for viewing.

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. Last updated 12/17/25

Trout season closed Oct. 31.

STARTING IMMEDIATELY THERE MAY BE A TEMPORARY DOCK MOORED TO THE CHANDLER BRIDGE TO ALLOW FOR BRIDGE MAINTENANCE. BOATERS IN THIS REACH OF RIVER NEED TO BE AWARE OF THIS BOATING RISK.