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Coho salmonPeak seasonBar · Alaska
Fountain Rock
59.53°N · 146.35°W · Bar · Central and Eastern Prince William Sound
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Best score today · 8 AM · Coho salmon
- Now
- 521 PM AKDT
- Best window
- 7-10 PMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing7.5 ft ▼
Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine
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14-day forecast
Best days to fish
24-hour conditions · rolling from now
Conditions · 1 PM · now
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS + Open-Meteo Marine
49Tide: EbbingCurrent: 0.5 knWind & pressure
ECMWF
71Wind: 14 kt NNEPressure: SteadyWater temp & sky
Open-Meteo Marine
75Water temp: 53°F, primeLight: OvercastSolunar: Between periodsSeas: 4.4 ftSeason & habitat · Coho salmon
Species seasonality
63Season: PeakHabitat: Poor fitDepth: In rangeRegulations: no rule on file
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Coho salmon is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with ADF&G before you keep a fish.
Source: ADF&G · synced today
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Coho salmon is best here
Last week of peak season for Coho salmon · shoulder season next
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Fountain Rock
- Depth
- 100-110 ft
- Structure
- Ledge · Outer · Exposed
- Season
- Peak seasonCoho salmon
NOAA NCEI DEM, sampled Sep 14 on a 11132000 m grid. Depths are feet below the DEM vertical datum, not chart datum (MLLW), so they can differ from a chart by a few feet. Not for navigation.
About this spot
Fishing Fountain Rock
Fountain Rock is a bar in Central and Eastern Prince William Sound, Alaska. Depth is 100-110 ft. Its profile reads ledge, outer water and exposed.
Waterlands scores 9 species here; the best right now are lingcod, Pacific cod and Pacific halibut. It is peak season now for lingcod and coho salmon, and shoulder season for Pacific cod, Pacific halibut, rockfish and sablefish. Lingcod peak from July through September. Pacific cod peak from June through August. Pacific halibut peak from June through August.
Tackle & technique
- Coho salmon
- Coho feed in the top 30 to 50 feet along tide rips, kelp edges and bait schools, and often hit within a few feet of the surface. Troll faster than for Chinook, 2 to 4 mph, with a small flasher and hoochie, bucktail fly or herring, or cast spinners and flies from beaches near stream mouths as fish stage in late summer. The hour around a tide change is often the best window.
- Lingcod
- Lingcod ambush prey from rock outcrops, reef edges and kelp where current runs, most often in 30 to 300 feet, and males move shallow to guard nests in winter. Drift over the reef bouncing a lead-head swimbait or metal jig on the bottom, or fish herring or squid on a heavy leader, since their teeth cut light line. From jetties and rocky shore, work bait or jigs along the rocks on the incoming tide.
- Pacific cod
- Pacific cod school over mud, sand and gravel bottoms and shelf edges, moving shallower than 300 feet in summer and deeper to spawn in winter. Drop a heavy metal jig or a lead-head with a herring or squid strip to the bottom in 100 to 300 feet and work it a few feet up. They often come up on the same drifts as halibut, and a school can mean fast fishing once you find it.
Scores and forecasts are for planning only and can be wrong. Conditions on the water change fast; check the marine forecast before you go. Regulations change during the season, so confirm limits and closures with ADF&G before you keep a fish.