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Rockfish, Lingcod, and Winter Ocean Windows - Your Oregon Pacific Fishing Report
This is Artificial Lure with your Oregon Pacific fishing report.
We’ve got a nice winter ocean window up and down the mid‑coast. According to the National Weather Service marine forecast out of Medford, nearshore winds are light this morning with a modest northwest swell building late tonight into tomorrow, so small boats have a decent shot close to the beach before conditions turn rowdier offshore.
Tide‑wise, Pacific City is the easy reference. Tides.net shows a low at about 1:00 a.m. around 1.7 feet, a solid morning high near 7:30 a.m. at about 7.4 feet, an afternoon low around 2:40 p.m. again near 1.7, and an evening high a little after 8:00 p.m. just over 5 feet. Sunrise is roughly 7:45 a.m. with sunset about 4:30 p.m., so your best bite windows are that morning flood push and the first of the evening rise.
Groundfish have been the bread and butter. Recent coastal reports and ODFW’s season updates say black rockfish limits are still being hit quickly on the nicer days, with plenty of canary and a good mix of lingcod in the 8–15 pound class. Ling numbers have been strong enough that the Commission just approved higher 2026 limits, which tells you how healthy that stock is.
For gear, keep it simple and local. Off Pacific City’s Haystack Rock and the reef complexes out to 120 feet, 4–6 ounce lead‑head jigs with 5–7 inch swimbaits in motor oil, white, or root beer are putting lings in the box. Black rockfish are chewing on 2–3 ounce metal jigs and small twitch‑style swimbaits; if they get picky, a strip of herring belly or squid on a chicken rig turns them right back on. For surf anglers working spots like Tierra Del Mar or the Lincoln City beaches, go with 2–3 inch sandworm plastics or Gulp sandworms in camo or motor oil on a Carolina rig, or plain old clam necks and sand shrimp when you can get them.
Hot spot number one: Pacific City/Haystack reef. Launch off the beach, run just outside the breakers, and focus on broken rock in 60–90 feet during that morning flood. Most boats that slide from spot to spot are stacking up rockfish fast and picking a couple of lings each pass.
Hot spot number two: the reefs off Depoe Bay. On the calmer mornings, the charter fleet has been coming in with mixed bags of blacks, canaries, and a sprinkling of keeper lings. If you’re running your own skiff, hug the inside structure and watch your drift; bounce a 4‑ounce jig just off bottom and hang on.
Fish activity today should pick up mid‑morning as the tide tops out, then again late in the afternoon as that evening high builds. With the short daylight, those transition periods are gold. Work fast‑moving metal and swimbaits when the current’s running, then slow it down with bait or lightly hopped plastics as the tide eases.
That’s your Oregon Pacific report from Artificial Lure. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a tide.
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
We’ve got a nice winter ocean window up and down the mid‑coast. According to the National Weather Service marine forecast out of Medford, nearshore winds are light this morning with a modest northwest swell building late tonight into tomorrow, so small boats have a decent shot close to the beach before conditions turn rowdier offshore.
Tide‑wise, Pacific City is the easy reference. Tides.net shows a low at about 1:00 a.m. around 1.7 feet, a solid morning high near 7:30 a.m. at about 7.4 feet, an afternoon low around 2:40 p.m. again near 1.7, and an evening high a little after 8:00 p.m. just over 5 feet. Sunrise is roughly 7:45 a.m. with sunset about 4:30 p.m., so your best bite windows are that morning flood push and the first of the evening rise.
Groundfish have been the bread and butter. Recent coastal reports and ODFW’s season updates say black rockfish limits are still being hit quickly on the nicer days, with plenty of canary and a good mix of lingcod in the 8–15 pound class. Ling numbers have been strong enough that the Commission just approved higher 2026 limits, which tells you how healthy that stock is.
For gear, keep it simple and local. Off Pacific City’s Haystack Rock and the reef complexes out to 120 feet, 4–6 ounce lead‑head jigs with 5–7 inch swimbaits in motor oil, white, or root beer are putting lings in the box. Black rockfish are chewing on 2–3 ounce metal jigs and small twitch‑style swimbaits; if they get picky, a strip of herring belly or squid on a chicken rig turns them right back on. For surf anglers working spots like Tierra Del Mar or the Lincoln City beaches, go with 2–3 inch sandworm plastics or Gulp sandworms in camo or motor oil on a Carolina rig, or plain old clam necks and sand shrimp when you can get them.
Hot spot number one: Pacific City/Haystack reef. Launch off the beach, run just outside the breakers, and focus on broken rock in 60–90 feet during that morning flood. Most boats that slide from spot to spot are stacking up rockfish fast and picking a couple of lings each pass.
Hot spot number two: the reefs off Depoe Bay. On the calmer mornings, the charter fleet has been coming in with mixed bags of blacks, canaries, and a sprinkling of keeper lings. If you’re running your own skiff, hug the inside structure and watch your drift; bounce a 4‑ounce jig just off bottom and hang on.
Fish activity today should pick up mid‑morning as the tide tops out, then again late in the afternoon as that evening high builds. With the short daylight, those transition periods are gold. Work fast‑moving metal and swimbaits when the current’s running, then slow it down with bait or lightly hopped plastics as the tide eases.
That’s your Oregon Pacific report from Artificial Lure. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a tide.
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
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By Inception Point AiThis is Artificial Lure with your Oregon Pacific fishing report.
We’ve got a nice winter ocean window up and down the mid‑coast. According to the National Weather Service marine forecast out of Medford, nearshore winds are light this morning with a modest northwest swell building late tonight into tomorrow, so small boats have a decent shot close to the beach before conditions turn rowdier offshore.
Tide‑wise, Pacific City is the easy reference. Tides.net shows a low at about 1:00 a.m. around 1.7 feet, a solid morning high near 7:30 a.m. at about 7.4 feet, an afternoon low around 2:40 p.m. again near 1.7, and an evening high a little after 8:00 p.m. just over 5 feet. Sunrise is roughly 7:45 a.m. with sunset about 4:30 p.m., so your best bite windows are that morning flood push and the first of the evening rise.
Groundfish have been the bread and butter. Recent coastal reports and ODFW’s season updates say black rockfish limits are still being hit quickly on the nicer days, with plenty of canary and a good mix of lingcod in the 8–15 pound class. Ling numbers have been strong enough that the Commission just approved higher 2026 limits, which tells you how healthy that stock is.
For gear, keep it simple and local. Off Pacific City’s Haystack Rock and the reef complexes out to 120 feet, 4–6 ounce lead‑head jigs with 5–7 inch swimbaits in motor oil, white, or root beer are putting lings in the box. Black rockfish are chewing on 2–3 ounce metal jigs and small twitch‑style swimbaits; if they get picky, a strip of herring belly or squid on a chicken rig turns them right back on. For surf anglers working spots like Tierra Del Mar or the Lincoln City beaches, go with 2–3 inch sandworm plastics or Gulp sandworms in camo or motor oil on a Carolina rig, or plain old clam necks and sand shrimp when you can get them.
Hot spot number one: Pacific City/Haystack reef. Launch off the beach, run just outside the breakers, and focus on broken rock in 60–90 feet during that morning flood. Most boats that slide from spot to spot are stacking up rockfish fast and picking a couple of lings each pass.
Hot spot number two: the reefs off Depoe Bay. On the calmer mornings, the charter fleet has been coming in with mixed bags of blacks, canaries, and a sprinkling of keeper lings. If you’re running your own skiff, hug the inside structure and watch your drift; bounce a 4‑ounce jig just off bottom and hang on.
Fish activity today should pick up mid‑morning as the tide tops out, then again late in the afternoon as that evening high builds. With the short daylight, those transition periods are gold. Work fast‑moving metal and swimbaits when the current’s running, then slow it down with bait or lightly hopped plastics as the tide eases.
That’s your Oregon Pacific report from Artificial Lure. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a tide.
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
We’ve got a nice winter ocean window up and down the mid‑coast. According to the National Weather Service marine forecast out of Medford, nearshore winds are light this morning with a modest northwest swell building late tonight into tomorrow, so small boats have a decent shot close to the beach before conditions turn rowdier offshore.
Tide‑wise, Pacific City is the easy reference. Tides.net shows a low at about 1:00 a.m. around 1.7 feet, a solid morning high near 7:30 a.m. at about 7.4 feet, an afternoon low around 2:40 p.m. again near 1.7, and an evening high a little after 8:00 p.m. just over 5 feet. Sunrise is roughly 7:45 a.m. with sunset about 4:30 p.m., so your best bite windows are that morning flood push and the first of the evening rise.
Groundfish have been the bread and butter. Recent coastal reports and ODFW’s season updates say black rockfish limits are still being hit quickly on the nicer days, with plenty of canary and a good mix of lingcod in the 8–15 pound class. Ling numbers have been strong enough that the Commission just approved higher 2026 limits, which tells you how healthy that stock is.
For gear, keep it simple and local. Off Pacific City’s Haystack Rock and the reef complexes out to 120 feet, 4–6 ounce lead‑head jigs with 5–7 inch swimbaits in motor oil, white, or root beer are putting lings in the box. Black rockfish are chewing on 2–3 ounce metal jigs and small twitch‑style swimbaits; if they get picky, a strip of herring belly or squid on a chicken rig turns them right back on. For surf anglers working spots like Tierra Del Mar or the Lincoln City beaches, go with 2–3 inch sandworm plastics or Gulp sandworms in camo or motor oil on a Carolina rig, or plain old clam necks and sand shrimp when you can get them.
Hot spot number one: Pacific City/Haystack reef. Launch off the beach, run just outside the breakers, and focus on broken rock in 60–90 feet during that morning flood. Most boats that slide from spot to spot are stacking up rockfish fast and picking a couple of lings each pass.
Hot spot number two: the reefs off Depoe Bay. On the calmer mornings, the charter fleet has been coming in with mixed bags of blacks, canaries, and a sprinkling of keeper lings. If you’re running your own skiff, hug the inside structure and watch your drift; bounce a 4‑ounce jig just off bottom and hang on.
Fish activity today should pick up mid‑morning as the tide tops out, then again late in the afternoon as that evening high builds. With the short daylight, those transition periods are gold. Work fast‑moving metal and swimbaits when the current’s running, then slow it down with bait or lightly hopped plastics as the tide eases.
That’s your Oregon Pacific report from Artificial Lure. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a tide.
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