Steelhead Returns Are Winding Down

Coos River - Coos Bay, OR (Coos County)


by OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Staff
4-24-2019
Website

Steelhead returns are winding down, and most of the steelhead will be dark and spawned out.  

American shad typically begin running in early May. The general folklore says to fish for them from Mother’s Day to Father’s Day. 

Conditions for crabbing and rockfish and lingcod angling in Coos Bay should be improving as the mud and heavy freshwater runoff subsides from recent storms. Using a jig with a twister tail has been a great bait for catching rockfish. Anglers have been catching lingcod with a herring floated under a bobber. 

Trout fishing in streams and rivers will open May 22, 2019, while lakes in the basin are open year-round.





More Reports

OR Department of Fish & Wildlife Reports
for Wednesday, April 24th, 2019
: Crappie Up To 15-Inches
Delintment Lake: Delintment Lake Report
Krumbo Reservoir: Bass Fishing Will Improve
Wood River: Fishing is Fair
Owyhee Reservoir: Fishing For Warmwater Species Has Been Fair
Mann Lake: Some Water and Fish Have Survived
Sprague River: River is Open To Fish
Phillips Reservoir: Phillips Reservoir Report
Klamath River - Middle: JC Boyle Reservoir is No Longer Spilling
Klamath River - Upper - CA:
Nestucca River: Few Early Summer Steelhead Showing Up


4-19-2019
The Commission adopted Pacific halibut and ocean salmon regulations at a meeting today in St Helens. Catch limits set by the...... Read More