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Best score today · 9 AM · Sablefish

78/100Great

Now: 345 AM PDT
Best window: 7-10 AMFlood tide
Tide now: Flooding1.3 ft ▲

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Best days to fish

Best: today · 78

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Time5ANOW

Score34Fair

Tide1.3 ft ▲Flooding

CurrentSlack0.0 kn

Wind8 kn Ngusts 13 · easing

Sea stateModerate3.2 ft · 9 s

Air temp57°Mild

WeatherMostly cloudy55% cloud

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Current regulations

What you can keep here today

Marine Area 1 (Ilwaco)

IN EFFECT NOW

Sablefish

Retention open

Daily limit: 9 bottomfish combined per day
Possession: Not published
Size: Not published
Season: Mar 14 to Oct 17, 2026
Annual quota: Not published
Changes: Closed from Oct 18
Other: On all-depth halibut days with halibut on board, only certain bottomfish may be kept. Counts toward the 9 bottomfish daily limit. WDFW's page lists no separate limit for this species; check the pamphlet.

From WDFW Columbia River halibut and bottomfish seasons page, read Sep 13

Other species here

Cabezon Retention open (1 per day (9 bottomfish combined))
Chinook salmon Closed (No retention)
Chum salmon Closed (No retention)
Coho salmon Closed (No retention)
Kelp greenling Retention open (9 bottomfish combined per day)
Lingcod Retention open (2 per day (9 bottomfish combined))
Pacific cod Retention open (9 bottomfish combined per day)
Pacific halibut Retention open (1 per day)
Pink salmon Closed (No retention)
Rockfish Retention open (7 per day (9 bottomfish combined))
Sockeye salmon Closed (No retention)
Surfperch Retention open (12 per day)

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Source: WDFW · synced yesterday

Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed

When Sablefish is best here

Shoulder season for Sablefish · 1 more week at shoulder

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Spot profile

Peacock Spit

Depth: 25-30 ftFlat bottom
Structure: Bar · Outer · ExposedBar · flat bottom
Season: Shoulder seasonSablefish

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 Peacock Spit

Peacock Spit is a bar in Columbia River Bar, Oregon. Depth is 25-30 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bar, outer water and exposed.

Waterlands scores 11 species here; the best right now are coho salmon, Chinook salmon and Pacific halibut. It is peak season now for coho salmon and Chinook salmon, and shoulder season for Pacific halibut, rockfish, cabezon and kelp greenling. Coho salmon peak from July through September. Chinook salmon peak from July through September. Pacific halibut peak from May through July.

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.
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.
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.

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