Artificial Lure here with your Oregon Pacific Coast fishing report for Sunday, November 9th, 2025.

**Tide and Weather**
This morning at Pacific City, first light hit at 7:06am, and we’re looking at sunset around 4:52pm. Tides today started with a high at 3:43am (6.6 ft), swinging down to low at 8:49am (0.3 ft), then rising again to 2:15pm for a high water mark at 6.3 ft. Late season means quick transitions—ideal for timing your set-up during the mid-morning incoming tide. Weatherwise, we’ve got rain easing off and partly cloudy skies, with brisk southeast winds 15–25 knots out on the ocean. Offshore swells are still running 6–11 ft, so smaller crafts should play it safe and stick to estuaries or bays. The cold front moving in later today might push some fish into nearshore pockets, especially as the system brings colder air and high pressure overnight. According to the Ocean Prediction Center, look for calmer seas into Monday before the next round of low pressure heads in[5][8].

**Fish Activity & Recent Catches**
It’s coho season’s tail-end, but there’s still action. TheGuidesForecast.com notes a solid surge of coho after last week’s rains, and hatcheries clocked nearly 1,200 new returns, bringing totals up fast. Most bank and boat anglers reported decent hookups in the Sandy and Nestucca systems—just keep an eye on clarity, as snowmelt has dropped visibility in some spots. Chinook are also showing up, with some bright fish in the lower rivers, though the biggest runs have already shot upriver. Estuary anglers on the North Fork Nehalem pulled in 200 coho on Wednesday, and overall, Oregon’s midcoast rivers like the Siletz and Alsea are still open for wild coho retention through November.

Off the docks and party boats in coastal NorCal, folks bagged limits: the California Dawn II came through with 250 Dungeness crab and 250 rockfish for 25 anglers on November 8, and the Reel Addiction boats landed a few lingcod along with plenty of rockfish. Lingcod are popping steadily—when you can get out in between rough ocean stretches, they’re a solid bet for inshore jiggers.

**Best Lures and Bait**
Top-performing lures for November include tried-and-true patterns like *Spin-N-Glo*, *Flatfish*, and *Rooster Tail* for salmon species, especially in the river mouths and tidal stretches. For rockfish and lingcod, locals stick to big soft plastics in brown or motor oil, drop-shot setups with curlytail grubs, and jigs tipped with Berkley PowerBait swimbaits or squid imitations. Crabbers are having luck with Danielson Crab Trap Bait Pins loaded up with fish carcasses. If you’re targeting coho or chinook, smaller plugs and wobblers in chartreuse or metallic blue get those reaction bites when fish move through the tide.

Live bait is limited with colder water, but cut herring, anchovy, and sand shrimp are still the go-to for tracking down late salmon and big bottom fish. Sand shrimp can work in combo rigs with a Spin-N-Glo for steelhead if the rivers clear up a touch more.

**Hot Spots**
Here’s where the bite’s been best:

- Mouth of the Sandy River: Hatchery hole still producing coho and some late chinook.
- Tillamook Bay: Late-season crabbing and fair rockfish, best on calmer days.
- Nestucca River and Pacific City beaches: Coho still running, plus a solid lingcod and rockfish bite on the reefs when the surf allows.
- Nehalem Bay: Always a mid-fall staple, now with fresh coho in the system after last week’s rains.

For shellfish, always call the Shellfish Safety Hotline or check the ODA website before heading out to harvest.

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