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Cat and Kittens Rock

43.11°N · 124.45°W

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Best score for the day · 4 PM
81/100
GOOD

Now 75 · 11 AM PDT

BEST WINDOW
1 PM-8 PM
Tide flooding
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Conditions
Time
11 AM
Now
Score
75
Good
Tide
0.7 ft ▲
Flooding
Current
Flood
Wind
11 kn
SW · steady
Sea state
Rough
5.0 ft
Air temp
62°
Mild
Weather
Partly cloudy
64% cloud
Hour 11 AM. Score 75 Good. Tide 0.7ft Rising ▲. Current +0.2kn Slack. Wind 11kn SW G15. Sea 5.0ft Rough. Air 61.5°.
Why this score
Current
Slack
Prime

Current regulations

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What you can keep at this spot today

Halibut
Retention open
Daily limit
2 per day
Possession
2 in possession
Gear
Single line, no more than 2 hooks; or spear
Annual quota
Not published
Other
Depth: inside the 40-fathom line. Nearshore Season — activates only if either all-depth season closes early (shore to the 40-fathom regulatory line). Seven days per week, or until quota is caught. Possession limit: 1 daily bag limit at sea, 3 daily bag limits on land. Annual limit: 6. No length limit. Stonewall Bank YRCA closed to halibut fishing.
Season
May 1 to Oct 31
Other species here
Yellowtail Rockfish ClosedCopper Rockfish ClosedLingcod Retention openChinook Salmon Retention openCoho Salmon Retention openBlack Rockfish ClosedBlue Rockfish ClosedCanary Rockfish Retention open
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Seasonality

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When Halibut is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
49-71 ft
Rock
LAUNCH
Not mapped
PEAK
Peak now
STRUCTURE
Drop Off
Outer Exposed

Cat and Kittens Rock is an outer-exposed rocky drop-off off Charleston, Oregon, where the bottom falls through 50 to 70 feet of water. The structure holds a strong summer salmon run, with Chinook and Coho both peaking from June through September, alongside Black Rockfish over the same stretch and Blue Rockfish from April through August. Chinook and Coho respond to trolling with cut-plug herring, whole herring, trolling spoons, and hoochies, while mooching cut-plug herring works the same fish closer to the rock. Lingcod turn on over winter, peaking from January through March and again in December, and take metal jigs, swimbaits, and leadhead jigs worked tight to the rock, with live greenling or live rockfish as an alternative. Pacific Halibut move through from May to September and hold near the base of the drop-off, where drift fishing herring, salmon bellies, octopus, or squid covers the deeper edge.

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