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Best score today · 7 AM · Sablefish
- Now
- 3912 AM PDT
- Best window
- 5-9 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Flooding6.9 ft ▲
Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + NDBC + ECMWF · Waterlands engine
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14-day forecast
Best days to fish
24-hour conditions · rolling from now
Conditions · 12 AM · now
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
83Tide: FloodingCurrent: 0.4 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
100Wind: 6 kt SSWPressure: SteadyWater temp & sky
NDBC
4Water temp: 57°F, hotLight: NightSolunar: Between periodsSeason & habitat · Sablefish
Species seasonality
22Season: ShoulderHabitat: Poor fitDepth: Out of rangeRegulations: no rule on file
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
Marine Area 11 (Tacoma-Vashon Island)
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 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 yesterday
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Sablefish is best here
Shoulder season for Sablefish · 1 more week at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- Not here
- This week
Spot profile
Quartermaster Harbor
- Depth
- 6-45 ftSlope
- Structure
- Bay · Inner · ProtectedBay · slope
- 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 Quartermaster Harbor
Quartermaster Harbor is a bay in Puget Sound and Hood Canal, Washington. Depth is 6-45 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads bay, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 11 species here; the best right now are coho salmon, kelp greenling and cabezon. It is peak season now for coho salmon and Chinook salmon, and shoulder season for kelp greenling, cabezon, lingcod and surfperch. Coho salmon peak from July through September. Kelp greenling peak from October through 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Neill Point69
Cape · 3.0 mi
Top: Coho salmonPeak season- Coho salmon 69
- Chinook salmon 67
- Kelp greenling 61
6 kt SSWH 2:57 AM · 9.2 ftL 9:23 AM · 1.1 ft
- Piner Point66
Cape · 2.0 mi
Top: Coho salmonPeak season- Coho salmon 66
- Chinook salmon 64
- Kelp greenling 61
6 kt SSWH 2:57 AM · 9.2 ftL 9:23 AM · 1.1 ft
- Point Heyer64
Cape · 4.0 mi
Top: Coho salmonPeak season- Coho salmon 64
- Chinook salmon 61
- Kelp greenling 60
5 kt SSWH 2:54 AM · 9.3 ftL 9:21 AM · 1.1 ft
- Tramp Harbor62
Bay · 3.3 mi
Top: Kelp greenlingShoulder season- Kelp greenling 62
- Coho salmon 61
- Cabezon 60
5 kt SSWH 2:54 AM · 9.3 ftL 9:21 AM · 1.1 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.