Artificial Lure here with your Oregon Coast Pacific Ocean fishing report for Monday, October 27, 2025. Let’s kick off with today’s conditions and then dive into the latest bite, baits, and the go-to spots locals are buzzing about.

The sun rose at 7:47 AM with sunset set for 6:00 PM, so we’ve got a solid 11 hours of daylight to work the water. Tides are moderate, with a low around 8:39 AM and a strong afternoon high rolling in at 2:37 PM, peaking near 8.5 feet at Pacific City. You’ll want to time your surf launches or jetty shots for late morning through mid-afternoon when the moving water will get the fish feeding. Tidal coefficients today are sitting average, starting at 50 and tapering down into the 40s by sunset, so expect steady, fishable current without wild swings—ideal for both structure and surf anglers. Weatherwise, bundle up: temps are crisp, hovering in the upper 40s to low 50s with classic coastal overcast, and light westerly winds expected to pick up by noon.

Fish activity is right in the fall sweet spot, with the last week yielding strong numbers for surfperch, rockfish, and lingcod as the autumn transition kicks in. There’s also good news for jetty and nearshore trollers: several charters out of Garibaldi and Newport reported solid catches of big black rockfish—many boats limiting before lunch and pulling in the occasional hefty ling. Surf anglers have been raving about above-average redtail surfperch, especially on fresher sandcrab beds near the mouth of the Nestucca.

For bait, fresh shrimp bits, sandworms, and sandcrabs are best in the surf, while clouser-style bucktail jigs and 3- to 5-inch swimbaits in white, motor oil, or root beer are crushing it from the jetties and rocky points. For those trolling just outside the breakers, small cut plugs and herring have enticed the odd coho or chinook, though salmon numbers are tapering off. According to the Farmers’ Almanac, fishing is fair tonight but look for a spike in bite activity by tomorrow evening—so put in the extra casts near high tide today for the best shot.

Hot spots today include the Pacific City South Jetty—productive at high slack for both perch and lingcod on swimbaits—and the rocky flats just north of the Nestucca River mouth, which produced several limits of surfperch and a couple of fine cabezon this weekend. If you’re headed south, consider Otter Rock near Newport: locals reported quick rockfish limits on curly tail grubs tipped with squid, and a few bonus greenling in the pockets.

Those fishing from a kayak or small craft just outside the break at Cape Kiwanda took home mixed bags of black rockfish and kelp greenling, mostly on metal jigs bounced on the drop-off. If you’re looking for crab, the word out of Netarts and Tillamook is fair numbers but lots of smalls—stick to chicken backs in shallower traps.

For gear, brands like Z-Man, Strike King, and Gulp soft baits have been top producers; color-wise, stick with natural if the water’s clear, or go bright (chartreuse, orange) if it’s stirred. And don’t neglect topwater early or late, especially near estuary mouths on a rising tide.

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