OREGON & WASHINGTON FISHING MAP
Fishing Hot Spots
From Brookings at the California line up the Oregon coast past Port Orford, Bandon, Coos Bay, Florence, Newport, Depoe Bay, Pacific City and Tillamook to the Columbia River and Buoy 10, then up the Washington coast to Westport, La Push and Neah Bay, and in through the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Puget Sound and the San Juans. Tap any star or dot to see what it is and what to fish there.
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Parks & rules
Safety: these are planning references. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts and proper safety equipment before heading out.
Lake guides for this map
Month-by-month patterns, fish, ramps and rules for each water:
Fishing Hot Spots by area
Harbors, jetties, piers, points, bays and offshore banks. Tap one to fly to it on the map.
Salmon, halibut, lingcod and crab
Oregon and Washington are salmon country. Chinook and coho run along the coast in summer, into the bays and rivers in late summer and fall, and through the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound, where pink salmon show up in odd-numbered years. The Buoy 10 fishery at the mouth of the Columbia is one of the most famous salmon fisheries anywhere.
Black rockfish, lingcod, cabezon and greenling live on every jetty and rocky reef, and the charter boats from Brookings, Charleston, Newport, Garibaldi, Westport and Neah Bay run for bottomfish, Pacific halibut and, in warm summers, albacore tuna. Dungeness crab is in every bay.
You need an Oregon or Washington license, plus salmon, steelhead, sturgeon and halibut tags or catch record cards. Halibut and salmon seasons are short and change every year, and Oregon has five no-take marine reserves. Check ODFW and WDFW before you go, and always check the bar report before crossing a river bar.
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Map sources & checks
- Coverage
- Oregon & Washington. Mapped features come from public datasets and can be incomplete or out of date: a missing reef, ramp or wreck does not mean it is not there.
- Map data
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) — retrieved October 7, 2026
- World Database on Protected Areas (UNEP-WCMC & IUCN), Protected Planet — retrieved October 7, 2026 (license: Protected Planet terms)
- Hot spots
- 56 hot spots, each with its own source (tap any star to see it): OpenStreetMap mapped feature (36), Marine Regions gazetteer (15), OpenStreetMap marina or harbor (4), point on an OpenStreetMap river or lake line (general location) (1).
- Protected areas
- 24 protected areas from the official list above, drawn in dashed red. Fishing rules inside them are set by the managing agency; check with them before you fish.
- Chart layers (Charts button)
- GEBCO ocean depth and OpenSeaMap buoys, lights and markers, plus official NOAA nautical charts in U.S. waters. GEBCO and OpenSeaMap are useful references, not official navigation charts.
- Weather & tides
- See Weather & Tides for this area: NOAA/NWS forecasts, NOAA buoys and NOAA Tides & Currents, with Open-Meteo models where NOAA has no station.
- Dates
- This page last updated October 15, 2026. Each dataset keeps its own retrieval date, shown above.
⚠️ Planning reference only, not for navigation. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts, and proper safety gear before heading out.
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