General Fish Reports from ODFW

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PACIFIC OCEAN AND BEACHES: The sport fishery for major groundfish species, including all rockfish, lingcod, and greenling, is closed due to the harvest target being reached. This closure applies to angling from the shore, in estuaries and the ocean. The sport fishery for cabezon closed Aug. 18. Anglers may continue to fish for tuna, flounder, sole, sand dabs, perch, herring, anchovy and striped bass . The ocean selective coho fishery from Cape Falcon to OR/CA border is closed. The ocean remains open for all salmon except coho through Oct. 31. Anglers may use no more than two single point, single shank, barbless hooks. The minimum size for chinook retention is 20 inches. The recreational Pacific halibut fishery between Cape Falcon and Humbug Mountain remains open inside the 40-fathom curve seven days a week (legal waypoints are available in the 2004 Oregon Ocean Salmon and Halibut Sport Fishing Regulation book). This fishery will remain open through Oct. 31. The daily bag limit is the first fish 32 inches or longer with an annual limit of six fish. Heavy bar conditions kept most halibut anglers off the ocean on Sept. 17 and 18. The next all-depth halibut openers are Oct. 1 and 2. Open dates for all-depth halibut openers can be confirmed on the NMFS hotline 1-800-662-9825. Boaters planning offshore trips need to be cautious of ocean and bar conditions.