Anglers can catch rockfish around the jetties in the lower Coos Bay estuary. Best fishing is typically near slack tides with good fishing one day and fair fishing the next. A jig fished with a twister tail trailer is always a good option to catch bottomfish.

The 2024 daily general marine fish bag limit is 5 fish plus 2 lingcod with no retention of yelloweye or quillback rockfish. Anglers are allowed to harvest 1 cabezon per day as part of the general marine fish bag limit.

Although fishing remains open for Chinook salmon in the Coos estuary, the run is now on the spawning grounds above tidewater with few fish left to be caught in tidewater. Winter steelhead usually arrive around Thanksgiving and will be available when river conditions are favorable from December through March. Anglers should be advised that coho salmon are in spawning areas and may be hooked when steelhead fishing. Harvest of wild coho is closed for the season.

Boat anglers are catching walleye, surfperch and pile surfperch using sand shrimp along old pilings or along the edges of eel grass beds.