Hey folks, Artificial Lure here, your go-to Oregon coast fishing guru. It's a crisp winter morning on the Pacific off Oregon, with sunrise at 7:55 AM and sunset around 4:38 PM per Tide-Forecast.com for spots like Barview and Newport. Tides are prime today: high at 5:31 AM hitting 7.23 ft at Barview, dropping to low 2.23 ft by noon, then evening high 5.4 ft at 5:24 PM and overnight low 1.54 ft—perfect for surfperch and lingcod chasing the moving water, says Tide-Forecast.com.
Weather's holding steady with light winds and chilly temps in the 40s, no big storms rolling in from ocean.weather.gov briefs. Fish are active post-holiday; ODFW just stocked thousands of trout in coastal lakes like Siltcoos, Woahink, and Cleawoux near Newport—1,000 to 3,000 legals each—great for bank anglers. Ocean reports whisper solid surfperch hauls, some rockfish limits, and Dungeness crab pots filling up out of Newport, per local deckhand chatter. Salmon and steelhead are slow but winter runs picking up in rivers feeding the Pacific.
For lures, hit 'em with jig spinners mimicking sprats for sea trout and mackerel, or Strike King Redfish Magic spinnerbaits on medium-heavy spincast combos—irresistible in the surf. Soft plastics like grub-shaped Maxie Waxie or Swim'n Caffeine Shad shine for bassy types. Live bait? Sand shrimp or cut herring rules; pileperch love it.
Hot spots: Yaquina Bay jetties in Newport for perch on the incoming tide, and Rockaway Beach for surf action—tides peaking 7.8 ft early. Bundle up, check regs.
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