Montana Fish Report

Anglers are catching rockfish around the jetties in the lower Coos Bay estuary, but you may need to move around to several spots to find actively biting fish. 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. There's a lot of wind in this week's forecast which makes fishing the lower estuary very difficult.

The 2025 daily general marine fish bag limit is 4 fish plus 2 lingcod with no retention of yelloweye or quillback rockfish. Anglers are not allowed to harvest cabezon until July.

Catch Striped surfperch around the jetties. Catch red-tail surfperch along the ocean beaches. Anglers have best success fishing with sand shrimp near the bottom.

Trout fishing opened in the Coos Basin rivers and streams on May 22. Anglers are restricted to fishing artificial flies and lures in streams and rivers above tidewater. The daily bag limit for trout fishing in streams is 2 trout over 8 inches per day. Water levels in the local rivers and streams are low for this time of the year but the water temperatures in the smaller streams are still cold. Trout fishing will be best in the mornings and late evenings.