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Island passes and banks — resident and migratory Chinook among current seams.
Pacific Halibut per angler on Sep 6, 2026
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Pacific Halibut caught
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68°
Clear · feels 66°
Sun
Good
73°/50°
wind 6 kt · 1% rain
Mon
Fair
62°/53°
wind 9 kt · 44% rain
Tue
Favorable
69°/50°
wind 4 kt · 2% rain
Wed
Good
72°/54°
wind 7 kt · 1% rain
Thu
Good
67°/53°
wind 6 kt · 3% rain
Fri
Fair
61°/51°
wind 11 kt · 12% rain
Sat
Favorable
65°/50°
wind 5 kt · 12% rain
The pamphlet prints Pacific Halibut rules for Marine Area 7 (San Juan Islands) but no season dates — WDFW announces these seasons separately. Here is exactly what it prints:
Pacific Halibut
Check the WDFW website at wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulations/halibut or call (360) 902-2700 in March for information on Pacific halibut seasons and regulations. No min. size. Daily limit 1. Annual limit 6. Descending device required onboard vessels.
▸ 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). Herring - Closed year-round north of a line from Sandy Point to Patos Island to the Canadian boundary. 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: Check the WDFW website at wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulations/halibut or call (360) 902-2700 in March for information on Pacific halibut seasons and regulations. No min. size. Daily limit 1. Annual limit 6. Descending device required onboard vessels.
▸ 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 Lummi Indian Reservation and Lummi Bay, Samish Bay, Yellow and Low Islands Preserve, Southern Rosario Strait/Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Bellingham Bay including Hale Pass below)
▸ Salmon — July 16-July 18: Chinook - min. size 22”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 2 including no more than 1 Chinook. Release chum, sockeye, wild coho, and wild Chinook. Additional Chinook openings may occur based on available quota. Check the WDFW website at wdfw.wa.gov.
▸ Salmon — July 19-July 31: CLOSED.
▸ Salmon — Aug. 1-Aug. 31: No min. size. Daily limit 2. Release Chinook, chum, sockeye, and wild coho.
▸ Salmon — Sept. 1-Sept. 30: No min. size. Daily limit 2. Release Chinook, sockeye, and chum.
Lummi Indian Reservation and Lummi Bay Area
▸ Salmon — Year-round: CLOSED.
Samish Bay
▸ Salmon — Year-round: CLOSED.
Yellow and Low Islands Preserve
▸ Salmon — Year-round: CLOSED.
Southern Rosario Strait/Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca
▸ Salmon — Year-round: CLOSED.
Bellingham Bay (see exception for Hale Pass below)
▸ Salmon — July 1-July 31: CLOSED.
▸ Salmon — Aug. 1-Sept. 30: Chinook - min. size 22”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 3.
▸ Salmon — Oct. 1-June 30: CLOSED.
Hale Pass
▸ Salmon — July 1-Aug. 31: CLOSED.
▸ Salmon — Sept.1-Sept. 30: Chinook - min. size 22”. Other salmon species - no min. size. Daily limit 3.
▸ Salmon — Oct. 1-June 30: CLOSED.
▸ : 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 — Year-round: No min. size. Daily limit 2 of each species.
▸ Cabezon — May 1-Nov. 30: Min. size 18”. Daily limit 1.
▸ 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.
REGULATION UPDATE — Puget Sound recreational crabbing update, Marine Area 7 North opens Aug. 15
Action: Opens Puget Sound summer crab season in Marine Area 7 North Thursday through Monday each week, from Aug. 15–Sept. 28, 2026.Species affected
published Aug 13 · 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.
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