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Two Arches

45.06°N · 124.02°W

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Best score for the day · 12 PM
84/100
GOOD

Now 83 · 11 AM PDT

BEST WINDOW
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Tide flooding
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Conditions
Time
11 AM
Now
Score
83
Good
Tide
3.3 ft ▲
Flooding
Current
Flood
Wind
7 kn
SW · steady
Sea state
Rough
4.0 ft
Air temp
58°
Mild
Weather
Overcast
100% cloud
Hour 11 AM. Score 83 Good. Tide 3.3ft Rising ▲. Current +1.6kn Flood. Wind 7kn SW G11. Sea 4.0ft Rough. Air 58.5°.
Why this score
Current
0.4 kn light
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; spear allowed
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. Annual limit: 6. Possession limit: 1 daily bag limit at sea, 3 daily bag limits on land. No length limit. Stonewall Bank YRCA closed to halibut fishing. Seasons managed/enforced based on port of landing.
Season
May 1 to Oct 31
Other species here
Lingcod Retention openCabezon Retention openChinook Salmon Retention openGiant Pacific Octopus Retention openCoho Salmon Retention openCod ClosedRockfish (Aggregate) Retention open
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Source: ODFW · 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
Not mapped
PEAK
Shoulder
STRUCTURE
Drop Off
Outer Exposed

Two Arches is an outer-exposed rocky drop-off off Depoe Bay, Oregon, where the bottom falls through 85 to 145 feet along broken structure. Pacific halibut hold here from March through August, with lingcod peaking in February and March and cabezon filling in from July through September. Chinook and coho salmon push through the surface water from late spring into September, worked by trolling whole herring, anchovies, and flashers or by mooching cut-plug herring. Drift fishing herring, squid, and octopus covers the deeper halibut ground along the slope, while jigging metal and leadhead jigs works the rock edges for lingcod and cabezon. The exposed depth and hard bottom also hold aggregate rockfish, Pacific cod, and giant Pacific octopus across the same structure.

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