About North Bar Channel Hump

North Bar Channel Hump is a rocky pinnacle rising from an outer, exposed stretch of water off Eureka, California, with fishable depths running roughly 140 to 150 feet over hard structure. The pinnacle holds Chinook Salmon from May through September and Coho Salmon from May into November, while Lingcod concentrate over the rock from January to April and again in September, and Pacific Halibut move through from March to August. Rockfish are strongest May through September across the same broken terrain, alongside resident Sablefish, Pacific Cod, and passing Pacific Bonito. Anglers work the salmon with trolling using anchovies, herring, spoons, or hoochies, and mooch cut-plug herring or anchovies when fish sit deeper on the structure. Over the rock itself, jigging metal jigs and swimbaits takes Lingcod and Rockfish, while drift fishing herring, squid, or live baitfish across the pinnacle produces halibut.