2025 Recreational Bottomfish Season Set (Update)

Bag limits provided in detail below. Key changes include a 4-fish general marine bag limit January 1 through June 30 and a 1-fish sub-bag limit of canary rockfish for all anglers, year-round.

Bag Limits

• General Marine Species:
• 4-fish bag limit January 1 through June 30
• 5-fish bag limit July 1 through December 31
• Canary rockfish: 1-fish sub-bag limit
• Cabezon: 1-fish sub-bag limit
• Opens July 1, 2024
• 16-inch minimum size limit
• Lingcod: 2-fish bag limit
• 22-inch minimum size limit
• Flatfish: 25-fish bag limit
• Sablefish: 10-fish bag limit
• Longleader gear fishery: 10-fish bag limit
• Canary rockfish: 1-fish sub-bag limit
• For a 10-fish bag limit to apply, longleader gear must be used outside (seaward) of the 40-fathom regulatory line
• 10 midwater rockfish species only

Retention of yelloweye and quillback rockfishes remain prohibited.

The bottomfish fishery will again be open at all-depths year-round (no seasonal depth restriction).

Additional information on the recreational bottomfish fishery can be found on the ODFW sport bottomfish webpage.



2025 Recreational Pacific Halibut Season

On Friday, April 18, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission finalized the 2025 recreational Pacific halibut season and regulations.

The information below is summarized in the 2025 Pacific Halibut Sport Regulations Map.

Columbia River Subarea

All-Depth Season

• Daily bag limit: 1 Pacific halibut
• Quota = 18,587 pounds
• Open every Thursday, Friday and Sunday May 1 through June 29 or until quota is caught.
• Backup dates if quota remains:
• Mondays and Tuesdays added to the month of June (only)
• Open up again during the months of August and September (days of week to be determined later)

Nearshore Season (shore to the 40-fathom regulatory line off Oregon)

• Daily bag limit: 1 Pacific halibut
• Quota = 500 pounds
• Open every Monday through Wednesday May 1 through September 30 or until quota is caught

Central Oregon Coast Subarea

Spring All-Depth Season

• Daily bag limit: 2 Pacific halibut
• Quota = 207,768 pounds
• Open May 1 through July 31, seven days per week, or until quota is caught

Summer All-Depth Season

• Daily bag limit: 2 Pacific halibut
• Quota = 59,256 pounds
• Open August 1 through October 31, seven days per week, or until quota is caught

Nearshore Season (if either all-depth season closes early)

• Daily bag limit: 2 Pacific halibut
• Quota = 10,000 pounds
• Open May 1 through October 31, seven days per week, or until quota is caught

Southern Oregon Subarea

• Daily bag limit: 2 Pacific halibut
• Quota = 8,000 pounds
• Open May 1 through October 31, seven days per week, or until quota is caught

April 10, 2025

We'll stock millions of trout this year

And some will be for you! Each year, ODFW stocks millions of trout in the state's ponds, lakes and reservoirs for anglers to catch and keep. Check the trout stocking schedule and maps for locations near you.

Best bets for weekend fishing

With high water, steelhead fishing this weekend might be tough. But early spring trout fishing for holdover or stocked fish could be excellent.

• Be sure to check the regulations before heading out for Winter Steelhead. The runs are winding down and in several coastal locations, no fishing is allowed, however on May 22 fishing will open again for trout. The closure happens every year, to allow native steelhead spawning and out-migrating smolts to navigate the rivers.
• The ice has continued to melt on several SE Zone reservoirs – like Beulah, Chickahominy, Malheur and Pole Creek – and fishing the open water for holdover trout should be very good. However late season snow and ice means some lakes are still frozen and roads impassable. Call a local biologist to find out if you can access your favorite fishing hole.
• There's also plenty of open water on Howard Prairie, Hyatt Lake and Fish Lake, where early spring fishing for holdover trout can be good.
• Haystack Reservoir continues to yield trophy-sized and brood trout in the 16-17-inch range!
• Boats can now launch on Wallowa Lake – good news for trout and kokanee anglers.
• Redband trout fishing from bank and boat is fair on Upper Klamath and Agency lakes.
• Anglers are catching spring Chinook on the Columbia, Willamette and Lower Rogue rivers.
• Kokanee fishing continues to be excellent on Lake Billy Chinook with fish averaging 13 inches. Tips for catching more kokanee

These examples are for demonstration purposes only. Refer to the zone reports for more details and possibilities.

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