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Tacklebuster Reef Hump

44.96°N · 124.07°W

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Conditions
Time
1 PM
Now
Score
86
Good
Tide
6.0 ft ▲
Flooding
Current
—
Flood
Wind
4 kn
NW · steady
Sea state
Lumpy
4 ft @ 6 s NW
Air temp
62°
Mild
Weather
Partly cloudy
37% cloud
Hour 1 PM. Score 86 Good. Tide 6.0ft Rising ▲. Current +1.3kn Flood. Wind 4kn NW G6. Sea 4 ft @ 6 s NW Lumpy. Air 62.2°.
Why this score
Current
Slack
Prime

Current regulations

In effect now

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 by 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. Managed and enforced based on port of landing.
Season
May 1 to Oct 31
Other species here
Canary Rockfish Retention openYelloweye Rockfish Retention openWidow Rockfish Retention openCopper Rockfish Retention openLingcod Retention openChinook Salmon Retention open
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Source: ODFW · Marine Zone Cape Falcon to Humbug Mountain · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Halibut is best at this spot

Shoulder seasonShoulder season for Halibut
~1 more week in shoulder
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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
85-144 ft
Rock
LAUNCH
Marine Lane
4.2 mi away
PEAK
Shoulder
STRUCTURE
Pinnacle
Outer Exposed
BOAT LAUNCHES NEARBY

Distances are in a straight line, not by water.

Tacklebuster Reef Hump is an outer-exposed rock pinnacle off Depoe Bay, Oregon, rising from bottom that runs 85 to 145 feet deep. The structure holds a mix of rockfish—Yelloweye, Widow, Copper, and Canary—alongside Lingcod, Pacific Cod, Pacific Halibut, and Chinook Salmon. Halibut fishing peaks from March through August, best worked by drifting herring, salmon bellies, squid, or octopus across the rock, while jigging with leadhead or metal jigs and swimbaits covers the same water. Lingcod concentrate in February and March and respond to jigging with metal jigs and bucktail jigs, or live bait fishing with greenling and herring over the pinnacle's broken rock. Copper Rockfish hold through the May-to-September window and take metal jigs, leadhead jigs, and curly-tail grubs, and Chinook Salmon in the same months come to trolled whole herring, anchovies, and flashers along the exposed edges.

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