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Best score today · 7 PM · Sablefish

78/100Great

Now: 371 AM PDT
Best window: 11 AM-9 PMFlood tide
Tide now: Flooding6.1 ft ▲

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Best days to fish

Best: today · 78

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Score37Fair

Tide6.1 ft ▲Flooding

CurrentSlack0.1 kn

Wind0 kn Sgusts 2 · steady

Sea stateLight chop0.5 ft · 3 s

Air temp56°Mild

WeatherOvercast92% cloud

Water54°FObserved

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Current regulations

What you can keep here today

Marine Area 7 (San Juan Islands)

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 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

Guemes Channel

Depth: 30-80 ftDrop-off
Structure: Channel · Inner · Semi-exposedChannel · 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 Guemes Channel

Guemes Channel is a bay in Northern Inland Waters Including The San Juan Islands, Washington. Depth is 30-80 ft, with a drop-off. Its profile reads channel, inner water and semi-exposed.

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

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