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Best score today · 10 AM · Sablefish
- Now
- 3411 PM PDT
- Best window
- 11 PM-12 AMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Ebbing10.7 ft ▼
Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + ECMWF · Waterlands engine
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Season & habitat · Sablefish
Species seasonality
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
Marine Area 13 (South Puget Sound)
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 Retention open (2 salmon combined per day)
- Chum salmon Catch & release (No retention)
- Coho salmon Retention open (2 salmon combined per day)
- Lingcod Check regulations
- Pacific halibut Closed (No retention)
- Pink salmon Retention open (2 salmon combined per day)
- Rockfish Closed (No retention)
- Sockeye salmon Retention open (2 salmon combined per day)
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
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- Shoulder
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Spot profile
Cannery Point
- Depth
- 9-20 ftNearest water
- Structure
- Point · Inner · ProtectedPoint · slope
- 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 Cannery Point
Cannery Point is a cape in Puget Sound and Hood Canal, Washington. Depth in the nearest water is 9-20 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads point, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 10 species here; the best right now are kelp greenling, chum salmon and cabezon. 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. Chum salmon peak in November. Cabezon peak from May through August.
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.
- Chum salmon
- Chum stage off stream mouths and hatchery beaches in late fall in Puget Sound and Hood Canal and in midsummer in Southeast Alaska. Fish from the beach or a skiff in 5 to 30 feet with a green or cerise jig under a float, a large fly or a spoon. They fight hard, so step up to 12 to 20 pound line.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
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- Chum salmon 62
- Cabezon 58
1 kt SSWL 4:03 AM · -1.0 ftH 11:44 AM · 14.7 ft
- Arcadia Point68
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Top: Kelp greenlingPeak season- Kelp greenling 68
- Chum salmon 62
- Cabezon 58
1 kt SSWL 4:03 AM · -1.0 ftH 11:44 AM · 14.7 ft
- Tuckapahwox Point67
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Top: Kelp greenlingPeak season- Kelp greenling 67
- Chum salmon 61
- Cabezon 57
1 kt SSWL 4:03 AM · -1.0 ftH 11:44 AM · 14.7 ft
- Hammersley Inlet67
Bay · 2.0 mi
Top: Kelp greenlingPeak season- Kelp greenling 67
- Chum salmon 65
- Lingcod 57
1 kt SSWL 4:03 AM · -1.0 ftH 11:44 AM · 14.7 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.