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Yellow Rock

42.21°N · 124.39°W

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Best score for the day · 1 PM
83/100
GOOD

Now 82 · 11 AM PDT

BEST WINDOW
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Tide flooding
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Conditions
Time
11 AM
Now
Score
82
Good
Tide
4.7 ft ▲
Flooding
Current
—
Flood
Wind
8 kn
SSW · steady
Sea state
Rough
4.9 ft
Air temp
62°
Mild
Weather
Clear
4% cloud
Hour 11 AM. Score 82 Good. Tide 4.7ft Rising ▲. Current +1.5kn Flood. Wind 8kn SSW G11. Sea 4.9ft Rough. Air 61.7°.
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; spear allowed
Annual quota
Not published
Other
Depth: all depths. 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. Functional descending device must be onboard; use required when releasing rockfish beyond 30-fathom line.
Season
May 1 to Oct 31
Other species here
Copper Rockfish ClosedChinook Salmon ClosedCanary Rockfish Retention openSablefish Retention openLingcod Retention openCoho Salmon 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
45-77 ft
Rock
LAUNCH
Not mapped
PEAK
Shoulder
STRUCTURE
Drop Off
Outer Exposed

Yellow Rock is an outer-exposed rocky drop-off off Gold Beach, Oregon, where the bottom falls through 45 to 75 feet of water. Chinook Salmon peak here from July through September and Coho Salmon run from June into October, both taken by trolling cut-plug herring, whole anchovy, trolling spoons, and flashers, or by mooching whole and cut-plug herring across the structure. Pacific Halibut hold from March through August and respond to drift fishing with herring, salmon bellies, squid, and leadhead jigs along the sloping rock. Lingcod concentrate in the winter months of January and February, when jigging metal jigs, swimbaits, and leadhead jigs works the drop-off, with live greenling or rockfish as a supporting approach. Rockfish, including Copper and Canary, along with Sablefish, round out the mix over this rock bottom.

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