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Best score today · 8 PM · Sablefish
- Now
- 324 PM PDT
- Best window
- 8-10 PMSlack current
- Tide now
- Ebbing7.9 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
Thursday, Oct 1 · 7 PM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
95Tide: EbbingCurrent: 0.4 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
95Wind: 3 kt SSEPressure: RisingWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
56Water temp: 49°F, hotLight: DuskSolunar: Near a majorSeason & habitat · Sablefish
Species seasonality
38Off season · capped at 35Season: Off seasonHabitat: Usable structureDepth: Out of range
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
Scow Cove
- Depth
- 15-60 ftNearest water
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · ProtectedBay · 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 Scow Cove
Scow Cove is a bay in Stephens Passage, Alaska. Depth in the nearest water is 15-60 ft, with a drop-off. Its profile reads bay, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 9 species here; the best right now are chum salmon, coho salmon and lingcod. It is peak season now for coho salmon and lingcod, and shoulder season for Pacific cod, Pacific halibut, rockfish and sablefish. Chum salmon peak from July through August. Coho salmon peak from August through September. Lingcod peak from July 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
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- Lingcod 35
- Pacific cod 35
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- Taku Inlet35
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- Lingcod 35
- Pacific cod 35
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- Sunny Cove35
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- Coho salmon 35
- Lingcod 35
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- Cherokee Flats35
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Top: Coho salmonPeak season- Coho salmon 35
- Lingcod 35
- Pacific cod 35
12 kt SEL 4:32 PM · 7.6 ftH 10:14 PM · 11.9 ft
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.