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BoatMarine Zone Cape Falcon to Humbug MountainHalibut · Open

Tacklebuster Reef Hump

44.96°N · 124.07°W

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Conditions
Time
11 AM
Now
Score
88
Good
Tide
2.9 ft ▲
Flooding
Current
—
Flood
Wind
1 kn
N · steady
Sea state
Easy
2 ft @ 13 s SW
Air temp
52°
Mild
Weather
Overcast
100% cloud
Hour 11 AM. Score 88 Good. Tide 2.9ft Rising ▲. Current +0.3kn Flood. Wind 1kn N G3. Sea 2 ft @ 13 s SW Easy. Air 52.0°.

Why this score

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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
Angling with a single line, no more than 2 hooks, or by spear. Functional descending device required onboard.
Annual quota
6 per year
Other
Depth: inside the 40-fathom line. Nearshore season (shore to 40-fathom regulatory line), applies if either all-depth season closes early; seven days per week, or until quota is caught. No length limit. Possession: 1 daily bag limit at sea, 3 on land. Annual limit 6. Stonewall Bank YRCA closed to halibut fishing.
Season
May 1 to Oct 31
Other species here
Widow Rockfish Retention openLingcod Retention openCanary Rockfish Retention openChinook Salmon Retention openCopper Rockfish Retention openYelloweye 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
85-144 ft
Rock
STRUCTURE
Pinnacle
Outer Exposed

About Tacklebuster Reef Hump

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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