Ride a small Zodiac with a naturalist captain for close views of gray whales and local marine life off Depoe Bay
Learn from a marine biologist and spot gray whales with Koda the dog
Ride a 13-passenger Zodiac with a naturalist captain to look for gray whales
Fish nearshore reefs off Newport with light tackle on a 5-hour trip
Fish for Pacific halibut offshore and add ocean crabbing
Retrieve ocean-set crab pots and take home your catch
Fish for Coho salmon on a 6–7 hour charter with room for up to 12 anglers
Fish offshore rockfish grounds with a 10-rockfish per-person limit
Split your day between Coho salmon and rockfish on Yaquina Bay
Target Pacific flatfish with crew guidance and a 25-fish limit
Explore offshore reefs for rockfish and summer lingcod
Clarity is geology, not luck: quartz sand, seagrass filtration, and how close the Gulf Stream runs. Thirteen beaches, and the trade-off each one asks of you.
Florida issues no boating license at all. What the marina checks is a safety education card, and whether you need one comes down to one date: January 1, 1988.