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Best score today · 7 AM · Pacific halibut
- Now
- 526 PM PDT
- Best window
- 6-9 PMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Flooding3.8 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 · 6 PM · now
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS + Open-Meteo Marine
85Tide: FloodingCurrent: 0.2 knWind & pressure
ECMWF
100Wind: 4 kt WPressure: SteadyWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
45Water temp: 63°F, hotLight: DuskSolunar: Between periodsSeas: 5.7 ftSeason & habitat · Pacific halibut
Species seasonality
51Season: ShoulderHabitat: Structure unmappedDepth: Out of rangeRegulations: no rule on file
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
Marine Area 2 (Westport-Ocean Shores)
Pacific halibut
Retention open- Daily limit
- 1 per day
- Possession
- 2 in possession
- Size
- No minimum size.
- Season
- Aug 8 to Sep 30, 2026
- Annual quota
- 6 halibut per year
- Changes
- Closed from Oct 1
- Other
- Annual limit 6 halibut. Record each halibut on your WDFW catch record card right away. Only one daily limit may be on board the vessel. The fishery can close early when the quota is taken. Annual limit 6. Vessels fishing for bottomfish or halibut must carry a descending device rigged for immediate use.
From WDFW emergency rule: Summer halibut fishery 2026 (Aug. 5, 2026), read Sep 13
Other species here
- Cabezon Retention open (1 per day (9 bottomfish combined))
- Chinook salmon Catch & release (No retention)
- Chum salmon Retention open (2 salmon combined per day)
- Coho salmon Retention open (2 salmon combined per day)
- 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)
- Pink salmon Retention open (2 salmon combined per day)
- Rockfish Retention open (7 per day (9 bottomfish combined))
- Sablefish Retention open (9 bottomfish combined per day)
- Sockeye salmon Retention open (2 salmon combined per day)
- Surfperch Retention open (12 per day)
Source: WDFW · synced today
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Pacific halibut is best here
Shoulder season for Pacific halibut · 1 more week at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Grenville Bay
- Depth
- 2-10 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · Semi-exposedBay · flat bottom
- Season
- Shoulder seasonPacific halibut
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 Grenville Bay
Grenville Bay is a bay in Grays Harbor Bar, Washington. Depth is 2-10 ft, with a flat bottom. 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, surfperch, Pacific halibut and lingcod. Chinook salmon peak from July through September. Coho salmon peak from July through September. Kelp greenling peak from October through November.
Tackle & technique
- Pacific halibut
- Halibut sit on sand and gravel bottoms near drop-offs, bars and pinnacles, most often in 90 to 500 feet in Alaska and on the shelf off Washington, Oregon and far northern California. Anchor up-current of a likely edge and fish herring, squid, octopus or a salmon head on a circle hook with 24 to 32 ounces of weight, or bounce a large jig on the bottom. The best bite usually comes in the hour around slack tide.
- 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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4 kt WH 10:16 PM · 7.1 ftL 4:49 AM · 0.5 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.