Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Pacific Ocean Oregon fishing report. We’re working a soft early-summer pattern along the central and north coast. Offshore, the ocean’s laying down nicely this morning with light northwest wind and a 3–4 foot mixed swell; afternoon brings the usual northwesterlies and a bit more chop, so plan your run early. The marine layer’s hanging just offshore with patchy low clouds, but inland it’s clearing to partly sunny and cool. Daytime highs along the beaches are topping out in the upper 50s to low 60s, and water temps are hovering in the low 50s. Sunrise hit the water around a quarter after five, with sunset lined up a bit after nine tonight, so you’ve got a long light window. That first couple hours after sunrise and the last two before dark will be your money tides for active feeders, especially in the surf and estuaries. Typical coastal tide cycle today is running a higher morning tide easing off to a mid‑day low, then building back to an evening high. On these swingy days, focus your effort on the last half of the incoming and the first push of the outgoing, when current starts to move bait and the bite turns on in the bays and nearshore reefs. Fish activity’s solid across the board: Nearshore rockfish and lingcod outside Depoe Bay and Newport have been steady, with boats working 60–120 feet pulling nice mixed bags of blacks, blues, and the odd canary, plus a handful of keeper lings per rod on good drifts. Charter skippers have been leaning hard on lead‑head jigs tipped with herring strips or squid, plus medium‑sized swimbaits in motor‑oil, root beer, and green/black. Halibut action off the central coast has been fair but improving, with a slow pick of quality fish rather than limits flying over the rail. Most have come on classic bait setups: whole or plug‑cut herring, large salmon bellies, or squid on spreader bars parked in 180–250 feet, especially around soft breaks and edges where sand meets rock. A bit of glow and some scent goes a long way in that deeper water. In the surf, redtail surfperch are making a good showing along open sandy beaches near Yachats, Waldport, and south of Cannon Beach. Anglers tossing 2‑inch Gulp sandworms in camo or blood red on a simple high‑low rig with a 2–3 ounce pyramid sinker have been putting fish in the bucket. Natural sand shrimp and live sand crabs are top‑tier if you can get them. Work the first and second troughs during the flood when waves are a little smaller. Salmon-wise, ocean seasons and exact openings shift by area, but when and where it’s open, trollers running small chrome or green splatter‑back spoons behind flashers, or anchovy/plug‑cut herring rigs, are picking up scattered Chinook. Depth has been highly variable – some fish up in the top 30 feet early, then dropping deeper with the sun. Cover water until you find bait on the sounder. A couple of hot spots to put on your list: • Off Newport, that nearshore reef line just north and south of the jetty continues to produce for rockfish and lingcod. Slide in tight on the structure on a slower drift and work swimbaits close to the bottom. • Around Depoe Bay, the hard bottom and ledges within a couple miles of the harbor mouth have been consistent. Short drifts over marked structure with jigs or baited rigs are producing some of the better lingcod of late. Color and lure tips: in the relatively clear early‑summer water, keep rockfish gear natural—anchovy, herring, or brown/green patterns—and downsize if the bite gets picky. For lings, big profiles in darker colors with just a hint of flash are doing the damage. In the surf, stick with camo or red sandworm imitations; if the water muddies up with afternoon wind chop, bump up to brighter oranges and pinks. That’s the bite along the Pacific side of Oregon from your pal Artificial Lure. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a report. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn