Mexican Fish Report

Fishing for bottom fish is open to All-depths. The 2023 daily general marine fish bag limit is 5 fish with no retention of quillback rockfish.  In addition, there is no retention of cabezon until July 1. Anglers are reporting good catches of rockfish and lingcod near Charleston and Bandon when the ocean swells are small.  

Anglers may also choose to fish the offshore longleader fishery outside of the 40-fathom regulatory line, which is open year-round. The longleader fishery has a daily bag limit of 10 fish made of yellowtail, widow, canary, blue, deacon, redstripe, greenstripe, silvergray, chillipepper, and bocaccio rockfish. No other groundfish are allowed and offshore longleader fishing trips cannot be combined with traditional bottomfish, flatfish or halibut trips. Find information about a longleader setup here.

Fishing for surfperch along the ocean beaches is starting to pick up for redtail surfperch on the sandy beaches like Horsfall Beach, Bullards Beach, and near Cape Blanco. Anglers have been catching surfperch when the ocean swells are calmer, using sand shrimp, mole crabs or artificial sand worms. Surfperch anglers are also catching striped surfperch along rocky shorelines.