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Best score today · 7 AM · Cabezon
- Now
- 4712 PM PST
- Best window
- 5-7 PMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing5.4 ft ▼
Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + NDBC + ECMWF · Waterlands engine
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14-day forecast
Best days to fish
24-hour conditions
Thursday, Nov 5 · 9 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: FloodingCurrent: 0.6 kn floodWind & pressure
ECMWF
87Wind: 5 kt ESEPressure: RisingWater temp & sky
NDBC
98Water temp: 53°F, primeLight: DawnSolunar: Major periodSeason & habitat · Cabezon
Species seasonality
48Season: ShoulderHabitat: Poor fitDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
No rule for Cabezon is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with ODFW before you keep a fish.
Source: ODFW · synced yesterday
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Cabezon is best here
Shoulder season for Cabezon · 25 more weeks at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- This week
Spot profile
Devils Elbow
- Depth
- 5-10 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Channel · Inner · ProtectedChannel · flat bottom
- Season
- Shoulder seasonCabezon
NOAA NCEI DEM, sampled Sep 14 on a 3.4 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 Devils Elbow
Devils Elbow is a bend in Columbia River Bar, Oregon. Depth is 5-10 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads channel, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 8 species here; the best right now are chum salmon, kelp greenling and lingcod. It is peak season now for chum salmon and kelp greenling, and shoulder season for lingcod, rockfish and cabezon. Chum salmon peak in November. Kelp greenling peak from October through November. Lingcod peak from April through June.
Tackle & technique
- Cabezon
- Cabezon sit in rock crevices, kelp beds and jetty boulders from the intertidal zone to about 100 feet and feed mostly on crabs and small fish. Fish a fish-finder rig with sand shrimp, squid or crab right on the bottom in the rocks, or drag a lead-head grub slowly through the kelp. Expect snags, and do not eat the roe, which is toxic.
- 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.
- Kelp greenling
- Kelp greenling are solitary bottom fish of rocky shores, jetties and kelp beds, usually in water shallower than 60 feet. Use a small number 4 to 6 hook with sand shrimp or marine worms, or a small lead-head grub, dropped to the bottom and reeled up slightly. Larger fish show in October and November when they spawn close to shore, and mornings tend to fish best.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Red Slough64
Gut · 4.0 mi
Top: Kelp greenlingPeak season- Kelp greenling 64
- Chum salmon 61
- Lingcod 61
6 kt ESEL 3:50 PM · 1.7 ftH 9:22 PM · 5.9 ft
- Prairie Channel62
Channel · 4.7 mi
Top: LingcodShoulder season- Lingcod 62
- Chum salmon 58
- Kelp greenling 57
6 kt ESEL 3:42 PM · 2.1 ftH 9:01 PM · 6.9 ft
- Clifton Channel61
Channel · 4.1 mi
Top: LingcodShoulder season- Lingcod 61
- Chum salmon 58
- Kelp greenling 58
6 kt ESEL 3:50 PM · 1.7 ftH 9:22 PM · 5.9 ft
- Jim Crow Sands (historical)57
Bar · 1.9 mi
Top: LingcodShoulder season- Lingcod 57
- Rockfish 57
- Kelp greenling 56
6 kt ESEL 3:36 PM · 2.2 ftH 8:53 PM · 6.3 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 ODFW before you keep a fish.