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Year-round salmon water south of the Narrows — resident coho and winter blackmouth.
Sockeye per angler on Sep 5, 2026
0.00
across 35 anglers
Sockeye caught
0
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74°
Partly cloudy · feels 70°
Sun
Good
77°/49°
wind 10 kt · 3% rain
Mon
Good
66°/56°
wind 9 kt · 12% rain
Tue
Good
79°/51°
wind 7 kt · 1% rain
Wed
Good
86°/49°
wind 6 kt · 0% rain
Thu
Good
76°/50°
wind 9 kt · 2% rain
Fri
Good
68°/48°
wind 8 kt · 13% rain
Sat
Favorable
72°/48°
wind 5 kt · 12% rain
Entire Area(see exceptions for Toliva Shoal, Northern/Southern Budd Inlet, and Fox Island Public Fishing Pier below)
Salmon — July 1-Sept. 30
Chinook - min. size 20”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 2. Release chum, wild coho, and wild Chinook. Anglers may fish with two poles with Two-Pole Endorsement.
Northern Budd Inlet
Salmon — July 1-Sept. 30
Chinook - min. size 20”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 2. Release chum, wild coho, and wild Chinook. Night closure and anti-snagging rule. Anglers may fish with two poles with Two-Pole Endorsement.
Fox Island Public Fishing Pier
Salmon — July 1-Sept. 30
Chinook - min. size 20”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 2 including no more than 1 Chinook. Release chum.
▸ Trout — Year-round: Catch-and-release.
▸ Steelhead — Year-round: Daily limit 2 hatchery steelhead.
▸ Sturgeon — Year-round: Catch-and-release.
▸ Mackerel — Year-round: No min. size. No daily limit.
▸ Herring, Anchovy, Sardine, Sand Lance, and Smelt — Year-round: No min. size. Daily limit 10 lbs., all species combined. All smelt caught must be kept and count toward the daily limit except Closed to eulachon (Columbia River smelt). For smelt: Jig gear may be used 7 days a week. Dipnets may be used from 6:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. Fridays through Tuesdays.
▸ Pacific Halibut — CLOSED: CLOSED to fishing for, retaining, or possessing.
▸ Other Food Fish — Year-round: No min. size. Daily limit 2 of each species. See definition.
▸ All Other Fish — CLOSED: CLOSED to fishing for, retaining, or possessing.
Entire Area(see exceptions for Toliva Shoal, Northern/Southern Budd Inlet, and Fox Island Public Fishing Pier below)
▸ Salmon — July 1-Sept. 30: Chinook - min. size 20”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 2. Release chum, wild coho, and wild Chinook. Anglers may fish with two poles with Two-Pole Endorsement.
▸ Salmon — Oct. 1-June 30: Chinook - min. size 22”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 2. Release chum, wild coho, and wild Chinook. Anglers may fish with two poles with Two-Pole Endorsement.
Toliva Shoal
▸ Salmon — June 16-Apr. 30: CLOSED.
▸ Salmon — May 1-June 15: Chinook - min. size 22”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 2. Release chum, wild coho, and wild Chinook. Anglers may fish with two poles with Two-Pole Endorsement.
Northern Budd Inlet
▸ Salmon — July 1-Sept. 30: Chinook - min. size 20”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 2. Release chum, wild coho, and wild Chinook. Night closure and anti-snagging rule. Anglers may fish with two poles with Two-Pole Endorsement.
▸ Salmon — Oct. 1-Oct. 31: Chinook - min. size 22”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 2. Release chum, wild coho, and wild Chinook. Night closure and anti-snagging rule. Anglers may fish with two poles with Two-Pole Endorsement.
▸ Salmon — Nov. 1-June 30: Chinook - min. size 22”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 2. Release chum, wild coho, and wild Chinook. Anglers may fish with two poles with Two-Pole Endorsement.
Southern Budd Inlet
▸ Salmon — July 1-Oct. 31: CLOSED.
▸ Salmon — Nov. 1-June 30: Chinook - min. size 22”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 2. Release chum, wild coho, and wild Chinook. Anglers may fish with two poles with Two-Pole Endorsement.
Fox Island Public Fishing Pier
▸ Salmon — July 1-Sept. 30: Chinook - min. size 20”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 2 including no more than 1 Chinook. Release chum.
▸ Salmon — Oct. 1-June 30: Chinook - min. size 22”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 2 including no more than 1 Chinook. Release chum.
▸ : Year-round season. Daily limit is a total of 15 bottomfish (See definition) subject to individual limits and seasons shown below. Fishing for bottomfish prohibited in waters deeper than 120’. Descending device required onboard vessels.
▸ Lingcod — May 1-June 15: Hook and line season. Min. size 26”. Max. size 36”. Daily limit 1.
▸ Lingcod — May 21-June 15: Spearfishing season. Max. size 36”. Daily limit 1.
▸ Surfperch — Year-round: No min. size. Daily limit 10. Except shiner perch daily limit 15: not included in bottomfish limit.
▸ Rockfish — CLOSED: CLOSED to fishing for, retaining, or possessing.
▸ Pacific Cod, Pollock, Hake, and Wolf-Eel — Year-round: CLOSED to retention.
▸ Sixgill, Sevengill, and Thresher Sharks — CLOSED: CLOSED to fishing for, retaining, or possessing. Sixgill shark may not be removed from the water.
▸ Cabezon — May 1-Nov. 30: Min. size 18”. Daily limit 1.
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.
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11.1′
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