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Best score today · 7 AM · Cabezon
- Now
- 614 PM PDT
- Best window
- 4-10 PMEbb tide
- Tide now
- Flooding12.2 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 · 4 PM · now
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
100Tide: FloodingCurrent: 0.7 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
100Wind: 3 kt SPressure: SteadyWater temp & sky
NDBC
75Water temp: 57°F, primeLight: OvercastSolunar: Between periodsSeason & habitat · Cabezon
Species seasonality
48Season: ShoulderHabitat: Poor fitDepth: In rangeRegulations: no rule on file
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
Marine Area 13 (South Puget Sound)
No rule for Cabezon 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 Cabezon is best here
Shoulder season for Cabezon · 31 more weeks at shoulder
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- This week
Spot profile
Wycoff Shoal
- Depth
- 8-40 ftSlope
- Structure
- Shoal · Inner · ProtectedShoal · slope
- Season
- Shoulder seasonCabezon
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 Wycoff Shoal
Wycoff Shoal is a bar in Puget Sound and Hood Canal, Washington. Depth is 8-40 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads shoal, inner water and protected.
Waterlands scores 11 species here; the best right now are Chinook salmon, coho salmon and kelp greenling. It is peak season now for Chinook salmon and coho salmon, and shoulder season for kelp greenling, cabezon, lingcod and surfperch. Chinook salmon peak from July through September. Coho salmon peak from July through September. Kelp greenling peak from October through November.
Tackle & technique
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Carr Inlet75
Bay · 1.7 mi
Top: Chinook salmonPeak season- Chinook salmon 75
- Coho salmon 74
- Kelp greenling 61
3 kt SH 4:59 PM · 12.6 ftL 11:09 PM · 5.0 ft
- Hogan Point75
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Top: Chinook salmonPeak season- Chinook salmon 75
- Coho salmon 73
- Kelp greenling 69
3 kt SH 5:06 PM · 12.9 ftL 11:16 PM · 4.9 ft
- Floyd Cove71
Bay · 1.0 mi
Top: Chinook salmonPeak season- Chinook salmon 71
- Coho salmon 70
- Kelp greenling 68
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- Pitt Passage71
Bay · 1.1 mi
Top: Chinook salmonPeak season- Chinook salmon 71
- Coho salmon 70
- Kelp greenling 68
3 kt SH 5:06 PM · 12.9 ftL 11:16 PM · 4.9 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.