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The fjord — summer chum, coho off Hoodsport, and glassy morning water.
Coho per angler on Sep 5, 2026
0.97
across 39 anglers
Coho caught
38
in the same report
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73°
Clear · feels 71°
Sun
Good
73°/53°
wind 7 kt · 8% rain
Mon
Good
62°/52°
wind 6 kt · 18% rain
Tue
Good
77°/50°
wind 6 kt · 1% rain
Wed
Favorable
83°/51°
wind 5 kt · 0% rain
Thu
Good
78°/49°
wind 7 kt · 4% rain
Fri
Favorable
65°/47°
wind 3 kt · 19% rain
Sat
Good
71°/46°
wind 6 kt · 14% rain
North of Ayock Point(see exception for Tarboo Bay below) (see A for Dosewalips River, B Duckabush River, and C Hamma Hamma River mouth closures)
Salmon — Aug. 1-Oct. 15
No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release Chinook, chum, and sockeye.
Tarboo Bay
Salmon — Aug. 1-Sept. 15
No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release Chinook, chum, and sockeye.
South of Ayock Point(see exception for Skokomish Mouth Area below) (see D for Skokomish River and E Dewatto River mouth closures)
Salmon — July 1-Sept. 30
Chinook - min. size 20”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 4. Release chum, sockeye, and wild Chinook. Anglers may fish with two poles with Two-Pole Endorsement.
Hoodsport Hatchery Zone (see below for boundaries)
Salmon — July 1-Sept. 30
No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release chum, sockeye, and wild Chinook. Night closure. Anglers may fish with two poles with Two-Pole Endorsement
Skokomish Mouth Area
Salmon — July 1-Sept. 30
Chinook - min. size 20”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 4. Release chum, sockeye, and wild Chinook. Anglers may fish with two poles with Two-Pole Endorsement. Fishing from a floating device only.
▸ Trout — Year-round: Catch-and-release.
▸ Steelhead — Year-round: Daily limit 2 hatchery steelhead.
▸ Sturgeon — Year-round: Catch-and-release.
▸ Mackerel — Year-round: CLOSED to fishing for, retaining, or possessing.
▸ Herring, Anchovy, Sardine, Sand Lance, and Smelt — Year-round: CLOSED to fishing for, retaining, or possessing.
▸ Pacific Halibut — CLOSED: CLOSED to fishing for, retaining, or possessing.
▸ Other Food Fish — Year-round: CLOSED to fishing for, retaining, or possessing.
▸ All Other Fish — CLOSED: CLOSED to fishing for, retaining, or possessing.
North of Ayock Point(see exception for Tarboo Bay below) (see A for Dosewalips River, B Duckabush River, and C Hamma Hamma River mouth closures)
▸ Salmon — July 1-July 31:
REGULATION UPDATE — Marine Area 9 (Admiralty Inlet), Marine Area 12 (Hood Canal) shellfish beaches update
Action: Rescinds biotoxin-related closure of public shellfish beaches in Dabob and Quilcene bays and at Belfair State Park; and opens oyster harvest
published Sep 3 · read the full rule ↗
A window is the hour either side of a tide change. Fish feed on moving water, so the turn itself is the classic bite, and the bigger the swing between one turn and the next, the harder the water pushes through it. A window that also lands on sunrise or sunset scores highest of all — that overlap is the one anglers plan a trip around. Wind then decides whether the window is fishable at all, and rain nudges it.
Only legal hours are considered — one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset — so a turn in the middle of the night is left out entirely, and a window running past the boundary is trimmed to the part you may fish.
Times come from NOAA and Open-Meteo, counts from WDFW. The ranking is ours — it is a read on conditions, not a promise of fish, and it does not account for regulations. Check the rules for the section you are fishing before you go.
3 mph
WNW · gusting 6 mph
next 12h: gusts to 16 mph · holding or building
wind mph gusts
now
9.4′
falling ↘
next high
9.7′ · 11:57 pm
next low
8.3′ · 8:06 pm
▸ Salmon — Aug. 1-Oct. 15: No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release Chinook, chum, and sockeye.
▸ Salmon — Oct. 16-Oct. 31: No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release Chinook.
▸ Salmon — Nov. 1-Nov. 30: No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release Chinook and coho.
Tarboo Bay
▸ Salmon — July 1-July 31: CLOSED.
▸ Salmon — Aug. 1-Sept. 15: No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release Chinook, chum, and sockeye.
▸ Salmon — Sept. 16-Nov. 30: CLOSED.
South of Ayock Point(see exception for Skokomish Mouth Area below) (see D for Skokomish River and E Dewatto River mouth closures)
▸ Salmon — July 1-Sept. 30: Chinook - min. size 20”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 4. Release chum, sockeye, and wild Chinook. Anglers may fish with two poles with Two-Pole Endorsement.
▸ Salmon — Oct. 1-Oct. 15: No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release Chinook and chum.
▸ Salmon — Oct. 16-Oct. 31: No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release Chinook.
▸ Salmon — Nov. 1-Nov. 30: No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release Chinook and coho.
Hoodsport Hatchery Zone (see below for boundaries)
▸ Salmon — July 1-Sept. 30: No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release chum, sockeye, and wild Chinook. Night closure. Anglers may fish with two poles with Two-Pole Endorsement
▸ Salmon — Oct. 1-Oct. 15: No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release Chinook and chum. Night closure.
▸ Salmon — Oct 16-Oct. 31: No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release Chinook. Night closure.
▸ Salmon — Nov. 1-Nov. 30: No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release Chinook and coho. Night closure.
Skokomish Mouth Area
▸ Salmon — July 1-Sept. 30: Chinook - min. size 20”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 4. Release chum, sockeye, and wild Chinook. Anglers may fish with two poles with Two-Pole Endorsement. Fishing from a floating device only.
▸ Salmon — Oct. 1-Oct. 15: No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release Chinook and chum.
▸ Salmon — Oct. 16-Oct. 31: No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release Chinook.
▸ Salmon — Nov. 1-Nov. 30: No min. size. Daily limit 4. Release Chinook and coho.
▸ : See definition.
▸ Flounders, Sole, and Sanddabs — Year-round: Open north of a true east line from the mouth of Turner Creek to the Toandos Peninsula in waters shallower than 120’ (20 fathoms). Daily limit is a total of 15. Descending device required onboard vessels.
▸ Lingcod — CLOSED: CLOSED to fishing for, retaining, or possessing.
▸ Surfperch — CLOSED: CLOSED to fishing for, retaining, or possessing.
▸ Rockfish — CLOSED: CLOSED to fishing for, retaining, or possessing.
▸ Pacific Cod, Pollock, Hake, and Wolf-Eel — CLOSED: CLOSED to fishing for, retaining, or possessing.
▸ Sixgill, Sevengill, and Thresher Sharks — CLOSED: CLOSED to fishing for, retaining, or possessing. Sixgill shark may not be removed from the water.
▸ Cabezon — CLOSED: CLOSED to fishing for, retaining, or possessing.