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Best score today · 7 AM · Sablefish

76/100Great

Now: 329 AM PDT
Best window: 5-9 PMEbb tide
Tide now: Low0.9 ft

Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + NDBC + ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine

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14-day forecast

Best days to fish

Best: today · 76

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Conditions · 9 AM · now

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Score32Fair

Tide0.9 ftLow

CurrentSlack0.0 kn

Wind4 kn SSEgusts 12 · steady

Sea stateCalm0.1 ft · 2 s

Air temp57°Mild

WeatherPartly cloudy58% chance of rain

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 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

Reid Harbor

Depth: 25-30 ftFlat bottom
Structure: Bay · Inner · ProtectedBay · flat bottom
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 Reid Harbor

Reid Harbor is a bay in Northern Inland Waters Including The San Juan Islands, Washington. Depth is 25-30 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads bay, inner water and protected.

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

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.
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.
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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