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Best score today · 6 PM · Sablefish

75/100Great

Now: 353 PM PDT
Best window: 6-8 PMEbb tide
Tide now: Flooding7.5 ft ▲

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14-day forecast

Best days to fish

Best: Sat · 77

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Conditions · 3 PM · now

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Time3PNOW

Score35Fair

Tide7.5 ft ▲Flooding

CurrentFlood0.5 kn · toward ESE

Wind2 kn NNEgusts 12 · steady

Sea stateCalm0.3 ft · 9 s

Air temp57°Mild

WeatherMostly cloudy86% chance of rain

Water55°FObserved

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Current regulations

What you can keep here today

Marine Area 6 (East Juan de Fuca Strait)

IN EFFECT NOW

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 Catch & release (No retention)

Always check with WDFW ↗Fishing license ↗

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

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Spot profile

Discovery Bay

Depth: About 150 ftSlope
Structure: Bay · Inner · Semi-exposedBay · slope
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 Discovery Bay

Discovery Bay is a bay in East Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca, Washington. Depth is about 150 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads bay, inner water and semi-exposed.

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

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.

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