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October 4th Pacific Ocean and Oregon Coast Fishing Report
Published 6 months, 3 weeks ago
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This is Artificial Lure bringing you your October 4th, 2025 fishing report for the Pacific Ocean and Oregon Coast—where autumn’s chill is settling in but the fish are still biting from Astoria to Brookings and all the saltwater hot spots between.
Low clouds and fog opened the morning along most of the nearshore, with a northwest wind forecast to freshen through the late morning—so keep an eye on sea conditions if you’re running a dory or smaller craft. A weak front is moving through, but there’s still plenty of fishable windows before the wind pushes up by afternoon. Sunrise this morning was 7:22 AM, with sunset coming at 6:50 PM. That’s plenty of daylight for those hungry rockfish and salmon making their fall push.
For tides, around Coos Bay and most central coast ports, your morning low fell just after 6:40 AM at 0.3 feet, with a healthy high rolling in near 1:00 PM right at 7.2 feet. With afternoon swaps from high to ebb tide, bottom fishing and crabbing should turn on from that midday peak all the way to dusk, especially on outgoing flows, when bait gets flushed and fish feed most aggressively, according to Tide-Forecast.com.
Now for what’s biting: salmon fishing picked up around the mouth of the Chetco and into nearshore Pacific waters right before this week’s rain according to Oregon Fish Reports. Fresh fish are pushing into bays, and trollers working the seams with natural baits—anchovy or herring—have found success, though the bite can run hot-and-cold. Early fish have also been taken around the deeper holes inside Tillamook and Nehalem Bays as those Chinook climb the ladder for the fall run. Pacific City Fishing shared that dory trips this week found the action good and steady, with plenty of mixed-bag rockfish, a handful of keeper lingcod, and limits of Dungeness crab in the pots.
Halibut season’s winding down, but a few flat ones are still being plucked just off the reefs in 200-300 feet of water on large herring, salmon belly, or glowing swim baits—like those Hyper Glow or Gulp Sandworms tipped with a sweetener. Berkley Gulp Alive Sandworms and PowerBait swim baits in natural and glow colors, sized 5–6 inches, are consistently taking bottom fish for both charters and kayakers alike.
For tuna, things are quieting down, but persistent crews making the 30-40 mile runs off Charleston are still running into scattered albacore in breaks where water pokes up over 59°F. Typical spread includes cedar plugs and colored jets, but when they’re finicky, swap to smaller chrome divers and soft plastics.
Best baits right now remain fresh anchovy, herring, and sand shrimp at river mouths and inside the bays. Offshore, large curly-tail grubs and glow swim baits work for lings and big black rockfish—Seafood News notes new 2025 regs are tightening up tuna reporting, but recreational remains mostly unchanged.
A couple of hotspots to check:
- **Pacific City’s Haystack Reef**—great for a mixed bag and easy runs for dory anglers;
- **Coos Bay South Jetty**—producing solid crabbing, rockfish, and perch action, especially at slack tide;
- **Depoe Bay’s outer reefs**—easy limits of black rockfish plus some keeper cabezon and lingcod reported by locals.
If you’re working beaches, try sand shrimp, clams, or Gulp sandworms in red-brown or camo for surfperch and stubborn greenlings.
That’s your report for today. Thanks for tuning in and be sure to subscribe for more coast-to-coast updates—this has been Artificial Lure, reminding you to keep your lines wet and your hooks sharp.
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Low clouds and fog opened the morning along most of the nearshore, with a northwest wind forecast to freshen through the late morning—so keep an eye on sea conditions if you’re running a dory or smaller craft. A weak front is moving through, but there’s still plenty of fishable windows before the wind pushes up by afternoon. Sunrise this morning was 7:22 AM, with sunset coming at 6:50 PM. That’s plenty of daylight for those hungry rockfish and salmon making their fall push.
For tides, around Coos Bay and most central coast ports, your morning low fell just after 6:40 AM at 0.3 feet, with a healthy high rolling in near 1:00 PM right at 7.2 feet. With afternoon swaps from high to ebb tide, bottom fishing and crabbing should turn on from that midday peak all the way to dusk, especially on outgoing flows, when bait gets flushed and fish feed most aggressively, according to Tide-Forecast.com.
Now for what’s biting: salmon fishing picked up around the mouth of the Chetco and into nearshore Pacific waters right before this week’s rain according to Oregon Fish Reports. Fresh fish are pushing into bays, and trollers working the seams with natural baits—anchovy or herring—have found success, though the bite can run hot-and-cold. Early fish have also been taken around the deeper holes inside Tillamook and Nehalem Bays as those Chinook climb the ladder for the fall run. Pacific City Fishing shared that dory trips this week found the action good and steady, with plenty of mixed-bag rockfish, a handful of keeper lingcod, and limits of Dungeness crab in the pots.
Halibut season’s winding down, but a few flat ones are still being plucked just off the reefs in 200-300 feet of water on large herring, salmon belly, or glowing swim baits—like those Hyper Glow or Gulp Sandworms tipped with a sweetener. Berkley Gulp Alive Sandworms and PowerBait swim baits in natural and glow colors, sized 5–6 inches, are consistently taking bottom fish for both charters and kayakers alike.
For tuna, things are quieting down, but persistent crews making the 30-40 mile runs off Charleston are still running into scattered albacore in breaks where water pokes up over 59°F. Typical spread includes cedar plugs and colored jets, but when they’re finicky, swap to smaller chrome divers and soft plastics.
Best baits right now remain fresh anchovy, herring, and sand shrimp at river mouths and inside the bays. Offshore, large curly-tail grubs and glow swim baits work for lings and big black rockfish—Seafood News notes new 2025 regs are tightening up tuna reporting, but recreational remains mostly unchanged.
A couple of hotspots to check:
- **Pacific City’s Haystack Reef**—great for a mixed bag and easy runs for dory anglers;
- **Coos Bay South Jetty**—producing solid crabbing, rockfish, and perch action, especially at slack tide;
- **Depoe Bay’s outer reefs**—easy limits of black rockfish plus some keeper cabezon and lingcod reported by locals.
If you’re working beaches, try sand shrimp, clams, or Gulp sandworms in red-brown or camo for surfperch and stubborn greenlings.
That’s your report for today. Thanks for tuning in and be sure to subscribe for more coast-to-coast updates—this has been Artificial Lure, reminding you to keep your lines wet and your hooks sharp.
This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
This episode includes AI-generated con