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Deception Pass, Hope Island, and northern Saratoga Passage.
Lingcod per angler on Sep 5, 2026
0.00
across 67 anglers
Lingcod caught
0
in the same report
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68°
Clear · feels 65°
Sun
Closed
69°/51°
wind 11 kt · 1% rain
Mon
Closed
63°/55°
wind 10 kt · 29% rain
Tue
Closed
63°/51°
wind 6 kt · 2% rain
Wed
Closed
67°/52°
wind 11 kt · 1% rain
Thu
Closed
65°/54°
wind 12 kt · 4% rain
Fri
Closed
61°/51°
wind 10 kt · 15% rain
Sat
Closed
64°/50°
wind 7 kt · 15% rain
No Lingcod rows for Marine Area 8-1 (Deception Pass) are in effect on today's date. Read the full printed rules below and verify with WDFW before fishing.
▸ 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: 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
▸ Salmon — Aug. 1-Oct. 11: No min. size. Daily limit 2. Release Chinook and chum.
▸ Salmon — Oct. 12-July 31: 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, 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.
Lingcod fishing is closed here today.
Nothing to show here until it opens — next printed opening 05/01. Rules are printed section by section, so check the regulations below for the stretch you fish, and confirm with WDFW before going.
6 mph
WNW · gusting 9 mph
next 12h: gusts to 25 mph · laying down
waves1.0 ft @ 3s
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