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Best score today · 7 PM · Sablefish
- Now
- 3010 AM AKDT
- Best window
- 4 PM-12 AMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Flooding6.8 ft ▲
Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + NDBC + ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine
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14-day forecast
Best days to fish
24-hour conditions · rolling from now
Conditions · 10 AM · now
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
59Tide: FloodingCurrent: 0.3 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
58Wind: 14 kt SSEPressure: RisingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
19Seas over the limit · capped at 30Water temp: 55°F, hotLight: Partly cloudySolunar: Near a majorSeas: 10.2 ftSeason & habitat · Sablefish
Species seasonality
48Season: ShoulderHabitat: Usable structureDepth: Out of rangeRegulations: no rule on file
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Sablefish 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 Sablefish is best here
Shoulder season for Sablefish · 1 more week at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Polka Rock
- Depth
- 90-100 ftDrop-off
- Structure
- Ledge · Outer · ExposedLedge · drop-off
- Season
- Shoulder seasonSablefish
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 Polka Rock
Polka Rock is a bar in Cross Sound, Alaska. Depth is 90-100 ft, with a drop-off. Its profile reads ledge, outer water and exposed.
Waterlands scores 9 species here; the best right now are Chinook salmon, chum salmon and coho salmon. It is peak season now for coho salmon and lingcod, and shoulder season for Pacific cod, Pacific halibut, rockfish and sablefish. Chinook salmon peak from May through June. Chum salmon peak from July through August. Coho salmon peak from August through September.
Tackle & technique
- Sablefish
- Sablefish live on soft bottoms along the continental slope, and sport anglers find adults in 700 to 2,000 feet. Fish a multi-hook deep-drop rig with glow squid skirts and squid or herring on circle hooks, using several pounds of weight and an electric reel. It takes a long run offshore and a calm day to keep the line near vertical, so most trips happen in summer.
- Chinook salmon
- Chinook hold near bait off points, kelp edges and tide rips, usually suspended 20 to 120 feet down and deeper as the sun gets higher. Troll slowly, under 2 mph, with a flasher and herring, hoochie or spoon on a downrigger, or mooch a plug-cut herring at the depth where the sounder shows bait. Winter blackmouth and feeder kings sit within 10 feet of the bottom in 60 to 200 feet.
- Chum salmon
- Chum stage off stream mouths and hatchery beaches in late fall in Puget Sound and Hood Canal and in midsummer in Southeast Alaska. Fish from the beach or a skiff in 5 to 30 feet with a green or cerise jig under a float, a large fly or a spoon. They fight hard, so step up to 12 to 20 pound line.
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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.