Tackle Shops Across Oregon

5 shops — hours, live bait, and directions.

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Oregon's coast runs a little over 360 miles from the Columbia River bar down to the California line, and the tackle shops along it stock for a fishery built on bottomfish, salmon, crab, and a short, intense summer tuna run. The backbone is rockfish and lingcod over the nearshore reefs, open under Oregon's seasonal bottomfish rules, with Pacific halibut a prized target on the early-season all-depth days. Chinook and coho salmon move through the bays and the lower Columbia — the Buoy 10 fishery at the river mouth near Astoria is one of the biggest salmon shows on the West Coast every August. Dungeness crab is a year-round institution off the docks and jetties, and albacore tuna run offshore in warm-water summers.

What that means for gear: most of these shops are general bait-and-tackle counters or marina stores that cover bay crabbing, bar fishing, and nearshore bottomfish, rather than the offshore-iron specialists you find in Southern California. One thing to plan around — Oregon's bait market runs to fresh-dead and frozen: herring, anchovy, and IQF product are the norm, and true live bait is rare on this coast, so call ahead if you need it. Several of the shops here are marina stores that also rent crab rings and sell licenses.

Select a region or scroll the map to find the shop closest to where you'll fish.

Shops in Oregon

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