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Marine Area 7Halibut · Open

Parker Reef

48.61°N · 122.97°W

Marine Area 7Halibut · Open

Parker Reef Fishing Forecast

Updated today

What's biting now near Bellingham: Halibut

Halibut fishing at Parker Reef looks good today.
The best time to go is 7 AM to 8 PM, with the tide flooding.

ReelCaster scores every hour at Parker Reef from 0 to 100, reading the tide, current, wind and weather for Halibut. The higher the score, the better your odds. Green means go.

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Every spot is scored for today, out of 100. Green is worth the trip, amber is fair, red is slow.

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Best score for the day · 9 AM
85/100
GOOD

Now 83 · 7 PM PDT

BEST WINDOW
7 AM-8 PM
Tide flooding
WDFW · Marine Area 7 · Halibut openRegulations ↗1 per day · Barbless hooks required
Recent reports
Updated 2 days ago

Coho Salmon coming steadily across…

14-Day Forecast
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24-Hour Conditions

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Conditions
Time
7 PM
Now
Score
83
Good
Tide
6.4 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
—
Ebb
Wind
3 kn
S · steady
Sea state
Flat
0 ft
Air temp
60°
Mild
Weather
Clear
2% cloud
Hour 7 PM. Score 83 Good. Tide 6.4ft Falling ▼. Current -0.0kn Slack. Wind 3kn S G5. Sea 0 ft Flat. Air 60.1°.

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ReelCaster has completely changed how I plan my fishing trips. It brings together tides, currents, wind, swell, and water temperature in one place, then pinpoints the best times and locations to fish. It saves me time and gives me real confidence I’m on the water when conditions are ideal.
Bob N.Victoria BC
5.0
ReelCaster was very helpful in helping me figure out where and when to fish! I was lucky enough to catch a 7 lb Coho right off the beach. The info that the app provided was really helpful and it saved me the trouble of looking at multiple sources to figure out tides, weather, and regulations.
KevinMarrowstone Island WA
Why this score
Current
Slack
Prime
Pressure trend
Rising
Prime
Tide swing
6.6 ft range today
Prime

Current regulations

In effect now

What you can keep at this spot today

Halibut
Retention open
Daily limit
1 per day
Possession
Not published
Gear
Barbless hooks required
Annual quota
Not published
Other
Closed after season end.
Season
Oct 1 to Dec 31
Other species here
Kelp Greenling Retention openLingcod ClosedCabezon Retention openChinook Salmon Catch & releaseRockfish (Aggregate) Closed
Always check with WDFW ↗

Source: WDFW · Marine Area 7 · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Halibut is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
30-80 ft
Rock
STRUCTURE
Kelp Reef
Mid

Parker Reef is a kelp-covered rock reef off Bellingham, Washington, in DFO subarea 7, where the bottom runs between 30 and 80 feet across a mid-exposure structure. The reef holds Kelp Greenling from June through December and Lingcod through two windows, November to February and March to June, with Rockfish concentrating over the rock between March and September. Anglers work the reef with jigging using metal jigs, leadhead jigs with soft plastics or swimbaits, and shrimp for greenling, rockfish, and lingcod, while live bait drifting with live greenling or herring targets lingcod holding tight to the structure. Chinook Salmon move through from June to September and respond to downrigger trolling with whole herring, spoons, and flashers, or mooching with cut-plug herring along the reef edge. Pacific Halibut hold on the deeper margins from April through August, taken by drifting herring, squid, or octopus across the bottom.

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