Friday, June 20th, 2025 Oregon Fishing Report: Salmon, Halibut, Rockfish, and Surf Perch

Good morning, anglers—this is Artificial Lure with your Friday, June 20th, 2025, Pacific Ocean Oregon fishing report.

Sunrise hit at 5:36AM and you can expect the sun to stick around until 9PM, giving us a big window to get out there and enjoy these long coastal days. Tidal swings today at Coos Bay are notable: the early low at 3:46AM (0.83 ft), high at 9:45AM (4.76 ft), another low at 3:11PM (1.59 ft), then coming up strong for a late high at 9:48PM (7.38 ft). Plan your surf or jetty trips around those swing points—especially that big evening push for a dusk bite, which is always hot for rockfish and surfperch according to Tide Forecast.

Weather’s classic June: cool mornings warming quickly, a little northwest wind building in the afternoon, and patchy marine layer likely to burn off by late morning. Dress in layers and keep an eye on sea conditions, as ocean weather last week provided only a handful of fishable days across most of the coast, per Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife.

Salmon action is picking up steam, and the ocean Chinook salmon season is currently open from Cape Falcon down to the Oregon/California border. The daily bag is two salmon (no coho retention at the moment), but there’s also a mark-selective coho season open in the ocean through August 24th or until quotas fill. Reports out of Brookings and Garibaldi show coho catches improving, and boats out of Depoe Bay averaged over one fish per angler last week—a real positive sign for summer trolling. Trolling with hoochies, cut plug herring, or green-and-blue flashers behind a diver has been the ticket for both kings and silvers, with most fish caught just outside the surf break or near river mouths.

Pacific halibut remains open daily on the Central and Southern Oregon coast, with plenty of quota left—74 percent in most places per ODFW’s June 18 update. Catch rates vary, but Depoe Bay stood out with better than one keeper per rod last week. Your best bets here: big herring, octopus, or glow grubs on spreader bars, especially during the slack tides.

Bottomfish are open all depth. Lingcod and rockfish remain steady, particularly after weather laydowns. Charter boats out of Brookings have reported full limits of lingcod and healthy rockfish hauls when the seas behave, using lead-head jigs with large swimbaits or live bait. For surfperch, it’s prime time along Bullard’s Beach, Horsfall, and Cape Blanco. Try sand shrimp, mole crabs, or Gulp! sandworms on a dropper rig right at the first gut.

A couple of hot spots for today:
- Depoe Bay for halibut and rockfish with its high catch rates and decent seas.
- The surf zone near Horsfall Beach for redtail surfperch—morning incoming tide is best.

That’s the pulse for your Friday run along the Oregon coast. Thanks for tuning in—remember to subscribe for daily updates and fresh intel. This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease dot ai.