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Wiggins Head
48.75°N · 122.89°W · Cape · Northern Inland Waters Including The San Juan Islands
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Best score today · 5 AM · Sablefish
- Now
- 359 PM PDT
- Best window
- 9-11 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing7.1 ft ▼
Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine
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14-day forecast
Best days to fish
24-hour conditions
Tuesday, Nov 10 · 1 AM
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Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
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Wind & pressure
ECMWF
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Water temp & sky
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Season & habitat · Sablefish
Species seasonality
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
Marine Area 7 (San Juan Islands)
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 Closed (No retention)
- Chum salmon Closed (No retention)
- Coho salmon Closed (No retention)
- Lingcod Check regulations
- Pacific halibut Closed (No retention)
- Pink salmon Closed (No retention)
- Rockfish Closed (No retention)
- Sockeye salmon Closed (No retention)
Source: WDFW · synced today
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Sablefish is best here
Out of season for Sablefish · the off season starts in 22 weeks
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Wiggins Head
- Depth
- 10-300 ftDrop-off
- Structure
- Point · Inner · Semi-exposedPoint · drop-off
- Season
- Not here nowSablefish
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 Wiggins Head
Wiggins Head is a cape in Northern Inland Waters Including The San Juan Islands, Washington. Depth is 10-300 ft, with a drop-off. Its profile reads point, inner water and semi-exposed.
Waterlands scores 10 species here; the best right now are kelp greenling, cabezon and lingcod. It is peak season now for kelp greenling and chum salmon, and shoulder season for cabezon, lingcod and rockfish. Kelp greenling peak from October through November. Cabezon peak from May through August. Lingcod peak from April through June.
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.
- Cabezon
- Cabezon sit in rock crevices, kelp beds and jetty boulders from the intertidal zone to about 100 feet and feed mostly on crabs and small fish. Fish a fish-finder rig with sand shrimp, squid or crab right on the bottom in the rocks, or drag a lead-head grub slowly through the kelp. Expect snags, and do not eat the roe, which is toxic.
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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.