Artificial Lure here with your November 8th, 2025, Pacific Ocean Oregon fishing report. Sunrise came at 7:04 am and we’re looking at sunset around 4:53 pm, so that’s your window for getting after it. A chilly marine layer hung off the coast this morning, with light winds and clouds holding steady, but overall it’s calm seas—perfect for getting on the water, as confirmed by the National Weather Service marine forecast and what I saw putting in at Pacific City this morning.

Today’s tidal swing is ideal for skinny-water action on the salt. In Pacific City, high tide peaked at 12:33 pm by 9.22 feet and drops out to a long, negative -1.51 ft low at 8:02 pm according to TidesChart. Nestucca Bay’s high topped out just a hair later, while the outgoing tide in the afternoon sets up excellent opportunities both in the surf and estuary edges. Work those outgoing flows around creek mouths and jetties for actively feeding fish.

Offshore, Dungeness crab and rockfish are lining coolers at a steady clip. Nor Cal Fish Reports relays impressive numbers—boats out of nearby ports seeing easy limits of both, with the occasional lingcod thrown in the mix. Locals are picking up healthy Dungeness in the 2–2.5 lb. range with chicken backs or fish carcasses in pots. For rockfish, the classic combo of shrimp flies tipped with squid and swimbaits in root beer or motor oil have been top producers. Lingcod are smashing white and blue paddle tails worked tight to rocky outcrops.

Surf anglers and jetty regulars are still finding late-run coho and a few bright chinook, especially on the high incoming this week. The Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife just extended wild coho opportunities in the Siletz, Yaquina, and Alsea—which has the fish moving—and ocean coho that make a detour up Nestucca sometimes take hardware. The best bet: 3/4-ounce spoons in chrome or orange, or chartreuse plugs for cast-and-retrieve. Early in the morning or on a flooding tide, you can hook up with a surprise chinook. Meanwhile, surfperch action is picking back up, with sand shrimp and Berkeley Gulp! camo sandworms taking plenty of slabs, especially just north of the Cape Kiwanda parking lot.

Most recent party boat trips offshore are still reporting plenty of black rockfish, canaries, and decent shots at lingcod. Some boats working from Depoe Bay south are even seeing Pacific halibut in the mix, especially those bouncing big white jigs off the bottom in 300 feet. It’s a transition month—expect more crabbing and bottom fishing action as salmon winds down in the salt, but don’t count out a late bright or two pushing up the estuaries on the tides this week.

If you’re itching for a hot spot, my picks today are:
- **Nestucca Bay South Jetty**: Early outgoing for coho or chinook with hardware, and the rocks for greenling and lingcod.
- **Cape Kiwanda Surf Zone**: Target surfperch just before the low at dusk, with Gulp! or sand shrimp doing the work.

Best lures: For salt, white curly tail jigs for bottomfish, chartreuse or red/white spinners or spoons for salmonids, and root beer or blue swimbaits for those aggressive lingcod. For crabbing, chicken or fish scrap in a weighted pot gets it done.

Reminder for everyone: Mussel harvesting has reopened coastwide as of yesterday, so if you’re looking to fill the cooler, now’s your chance according to Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife.

There’s still plenty of action if you pick your tides and mind the wind. Thanks for tuning in—make sure to subscribe for more local fishing intelligence. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

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