Port of Newport Public Pier
Public pier- Lands
- Dungeness & red rock crab, pile perch, winter herring.
- Best on
- Any tide; crab pull best on the flood and at slack.
- Access
- No boat; drop rings off the pier.
Places / Estuary / Bay
Newport · South Beach jetties
The flagship estuary: crab, the full bay-clam set, and jetty fish, with the only in-bay water-temp station on this stretch of coast.
Now · Thursday, September 3
Weather
59°F
Mostly clear · wind 16 mph
Water temp
57°F
50–60°F crabs best
Seas / safety
11.5 ft
Building seas · wind 19 kt
Next tide
Low 12:17 AM
next low 12:17 AM · 0.2′
Tide
When to go — crab feed on the slack
Go at 7:02 AMhigh slack · ~12h out
At Yaquina Bay, the peak is the high slack: the incoming carries the saltiest, cleanest water and the crab up the bay. Fish the last of the flood into it, along the channel edge.
Low-water windows ahead. Pick a day
Live · NOAA CO-OPS 9435380 · Open-Meteo · NDBC 46050. Clams and crab work best on the low.
Local provisions
NOAA station 9435380 gives tides AND water temp right in the bay, the only in-bay temperature read on this stretch of coast. The jetties hold greenling, rockfish, and rock sole; the flats hold the full bay-clam set; and the channel is prime Dungeness ground. Confirm the area is open before you clam.
Rocky structure: the South Jetty rocks and the Port public pier.
Also: black rockfish, lingcod, cabezon, redtail surfperch, and the winter herring run
Sand and eelgrass exposed on a minus tide.
Pots, rings, and trolling worked on the tide.
Also: fall Chinook staging in the lower bay
The actual places you stand: what each lands, when it turns on, and how you get on it.