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Best score today · 9 AM · Sablefish
- Now
- 388 PM PDT
- Best window
- 8-10 PMEbb current
- Tide now
- Ebbing5.9 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 · rolling from now
Conditions · 8 PM · now
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
21Tide: EbbingCurrent: 2.0 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
85Wind: 1 kt WNWPressure: SteadyWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
62Water temp: 55°F, hotLight: DuskSolunar: Between periodsSeas: 1.4 ftSeason & habitat · Sablefish
Species seasonality
47Season: ShoulderHabitat: Usable structureDepth: Out of rangeRegulations: no rule on file
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
Marine Area 9 (Admiralty Inlet)
No rule for Sablefish is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with WDFW before you keep a fish.
Species rules here
- Chinook salmon Catch & release (No retention)
- Chum salmon Catch & release (No retention)
- Coho salmon Retention open (2 salmon combined per day)
- Lingcod Check regulations
- Pacific halibut Retention open (1 per day)
- Pink salmon Retention open (2 salmon combined per day)
- Rockfish Closed (No retention)
- Sockeye salmon Retention open (2 salmon combined per day)
Source: WDFW · 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
Keystone Spit
- Depth
- 15-80 ftDrop-off
- Structure
- Bar · Inner · Semi-exposedBar · drop-off
- Season
- Shoulder seasonSablefish
NOAA NCEI DEM, sampled Sep 14 on a 3.4 m grid. Depths are feet below NAVD 88, not chart datum (MLLW), so they can differ from a chart by a few feet. Not for navigation.
About this spot
Fishing Keystone Spit
Keystone Spit is a bar in Admiralty Inlet, Washington. Depth is 15-80 ft, with a drop-off. Its profile reads bar, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 11 species here; the best right now are Chinook salmon, coho salmon and Pacific halibut. It is peak season now for Chinook salmon and coho salmon, and shoulder season for Pacific halibut, lingcod, kelp greenling and cabezon. Chinook salmon peak from July through September. Coho 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Lovejoy Point73
Cape · 4.6 mi
Top: Chinook salmonPeak season- Chinook salmon 73
- Coho salmon 73
- Lingcod 55
1 kt WNWL 9:55 PM · 6.2 ftH 2:12 AM · 8.4 ft
- Keystone Harbor67
Bay · 0.1 mi
Top: Coho salmonPeak season- Coho salmon 67
- Chinook salmon 66
- Pacific halibut 53
1 kt WNWL 9:21 PM · 5.6 ftH 12:12 AM · 6.3 ft
- Admiralty Bay67
Bay · 1.3 mi
Top: Coho salmonPeak season- Coho salmon 67
- Chinook salmon 66
- Kelp greenling 57
1 kt WNWL 9:21 PM · 5.6 ftH 12:12 AM · 6.3 ft
- Midchannel Bank63
Bar · 3.5 mi
Top: Pacific halibutShoulder season- Pacific halibut 63
- Coho salmon 56
- Chinook salmon 55
1 kt WNWL 9:06 PM · 5.6 ftH 12:25 AM · 6.7 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 WDFW before you keep a fish.