Today's best fishing in Oak Harbor: 7 AM to 10 AM
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Today's best fishing in Oak Harbor: 7 AM to 10 AM
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What's biting now near Oak Harbor: Coho
Coho fishing at Point George Hump looks good today.
ReelCaster scores every hour at Point George Hump from 0 to 100, reading the tide, current, wind and weather for Coho. The higher the score, the better your odds. Green means go.
Pro is free for 7 days: all 14 days, full catch reports and text alerts for Point George Hump.
Start free trialEvery spot is scored for today, out of 100. Green is worth the trip, amber is fair, red is slow.
The next 14 days in Oak Harbor
Data from: ECMWF + GFS + BlueCasterTwo weeks ahead
Most forecasts stop at the weekend. This one runs a full 14 days, so you can pick the day before you book the time off.
One number, out of 100
The best score anything in Oak Harbor reaches that day. Green is good, amber is fair, red is slow, and you can read it from across the room.
11,424 scores behind it
34 spots, every hour of every day, out to 14. This row is the best of them.
Hour by hour today at Point George Hump
All times PDTOne real spot
A city has no tide or wind of its own, so this is Point George Hump, the most fished mark in Oak Harbor, scored for Coho Salmon.
Six readings, one clock
Tide, current, wind, sea, air and sky, all lined up on the same hour, so you can see what is actually driving the score.
Currents, not just tides
Modelled flow for the water off Oak Harbor, so you can see slack coming before you leave the dock.
What others are saying about ReelCaster Pro
I’ve been using ReelCaster for about a month and I love it! Having all the conditions listed together is really handy and makes deciding when to go a no brainer instead of checking multiple apps and sites to get wind, current, sea conditions and tides. I highly recommend ReelCaster!
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.
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.
The spots people actually fish in Oak Harbor
28 more on the mapA year of catch reports
The order here is how much each mark actually gets fished, not today's guess. The busiest water in Oak Harbor comes first.
Today's number too
Beside each name is the best score that spot reaches today, so you can weigh a proven mark against a good forecast.
Every mark has a page
Its own chart, its own species and its own rules, worked out the same way as everything above.
- 89Point George HumpKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · High slack · Flat · Rock reef
- 89Point ColvilleKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Early ebb · Flat · Rock reef
- 89Long PointKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Early ebb · Flat · Mixed bottom
- 89Onamac PointKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Late ebb · Flat · Rock reef
- 89Post Office Bay HumpKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Early flood · Flat · Rock reef
- 88Blakely Island ShoalKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Late flood · Flat · Sand flat
Every spot we score in Oak Harbor
Bathymetry: NONNA-10 + NRCanReal charted seabed
Depth soundings, not a stock map. The banks, reefs and drop-offs are where you can see them.
34 marks, all scored
Every spot we cover around Oak Harbor, each one carrying its own number for today.
Point at any of them
The name, how busy a mark it is, and the tide, sea and seabed at its best hour.
Create custom spots
Our full model on your custom private spots.
- Drop a pinAnywhere on the water. The ledge you found, the bay nobody talks about.
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- Choose speciesPick what you fish there, and it starts scoring from the next run.
What you can keep in Oak Harbor today
- Coho SalmonKeep2 a dayOpen at all 33 spots we cover
- HalibutKeep1 a dayOpen at all 33 spots we cover
- Chinook SalmonReleaseCatch and release at all 34 spots we cover
- Chum SalmonReleaseCatch and release at all 4 spots we cover
- LingcodClosedShut at all 33 spots we cover
- Dungeness CrabClosedShut at all 11 spots we cover
- Black RockfishClosedShut at all 16 spots we cover
Rules differ between marine areas and change in season. Check WDFW for the marine area you are fishing before you keep anything.
That was one day. Pro opens the next fourteen.
Every spot on this map, hour by hour, two weeks out, with alerts when your water crosses the score you set.
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When to fish Oak Harbor
Each row is shaded against that species' own best month here, so a dark cell means a good month for that fish rather than a comparison between them.
| Species | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
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| Chinook Salmon | ||||||||||||
| Coho Salmon | ||||||||||||
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| Lingcod | ||||||||||||
| Dungeness Crab | ||||||||||||
| Black Rockfish | ||||||||||||
| Chum Salmon |
Chinook Salmon: January none, February poor, March fair, April good, May excellent, June excellent, July peak, August peak, September good, October poor, November poor, December poor. Coho Salmon: January none, February none, March poor, April poor, May none, June fair, July peak, August peak, September peak, October fair, November none, December none. Halibut: January none, February poor, March excellent, April peak, May peak, June peak, July excellent, August good, September poor, October poor, November none, December none. Lingcod: January good, February excellent, March excellent, April fair, May fair, June poor, July fair, August fair, September good, October fair, November good, December good. Dungeness Crab: January fair, February poor, March poor, April fair, May fair, June excellent, July peak, August excellent, September excellent, October good, November fair, December fair. Black Rockfish: January fair, February fair, March good, April good, May good, June good, July good, August good, September fair, October fair, November fair, December fair. Chum Salmon: January none, February none, March none, April none, May none, June none, July none, August none, September excellent, October peak, November peak, December none.
- Chinook Salmon. Oak Harbor (Whidbey Island, north Puget Sound near Skagit/Fraser feed) holds resident 'blackmouth' immature Chinook through winter/spring providing a moderate baseline, with a spring feeder build in May-June. The dominant peak is the July-August (weeks 28-32) migratory summer run of mature Chinook staging and moving toward the Skagit, Stillaguamish, and Fraser systems, tapering through September as fish enter rivers.
- Coho Salmon. Coho move into Oak Harbor's Whidbey Island waters (Saratoga Passage/Skagit Bay approaches) primarily as maturing adults staging for fall spawning runs, peaking late August through mid-September (weeks 34–36) when schools of feeding coho are thickest in Puget Sound. A modest spring/summer bump (weeks 13–18) reflects immature 'resident' or early-returning coho feeding on baitfish, while winter shows near-absence as fish have either spawned out or remain far offshore.
- Halibut. Pacific halibut in the Strait of Juan de Fuca/Deception Pass waters near Oak Harbor peak in late spring through early summer (May–July) as fish move onto shallower feeding grounds after winter spawning in deeper offshore waters. Abundance dips in late fall and winter when many adults migrate to deep-water spawning aggregations, though a residual local population keeps the curve above zero year-round.
- Lingcod. Lingcod are a resident, structure-oriented species in Oak Harbor's Whidbey Island waters and are present year-round, but abundance peaks late winter through spring (Feb–May) when mature fish migrate onto shallow rocky reefs to spawn and males guard nests. Post-spawn dispersal and summer movement to deeper water lowers nearshore density into summer, with a gradual autumn rebuild.
- Dungeness Crab. Dungeness crab are present year-round in Oak Harbor's Whidbey Island waters, but abundance of legal, hard-shell crab peaks in mid-to-late summer (weeks 25-28) after the spring/early-summer molt when crabs harden and fill out. A late-summer soft-shell molt causes a slight dip, followed by a secondary fall recovery, with the lowest legal-size abundance in late winter/early spring as post-molt and dispersal reduce catchable biomass.
- Black Rockfish. Black rockfish are resident, non-migratory reef dwellers in the Puget Sound/Whidbey Island area, so abundance stays near baseline year-round with no true biological gaps. A modest spring peak (March–April) reflects post-winter movement toward shallower nearshore reefs and pre-spawn/parturition aggregations as water warms, with abundance easing slightly in the coldest late-winter weeks when fish hold deeper and less concentrated.
- Chum Salmon. Puget Sound chum are a fall run; Oak Harbor waters near Whidbey Island see fish staging and migrating from late September, peaking in mid-to-late October (weeks 40-42) as they push toward natal streams. Abundance drops sharply by mid-November after spawners move into rivers, with the stock biologically absent through the rest of the year.
Before you go
Water around Oak Harbor falls into 3 areas, and the rules can differ between them. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife sets them.
- 6 6 — East Juan de Fuca Strait
- 7 7 — San Juan Islands
- 8-1 8-1 — Deception Pass, Hope Island, and Skagit Bay
Saltwater fishing licence
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife · 2026-27
Annual, Resident, 16 to 69: $40.71
Puget Sound Dungeness crab $11.89, required to drop a pot in Puget Sound, on top of a shellfish licence.
A saltwater licence does not cover shellfish. The combination licence covers both and works out cheaper than buying them apart.
Fishing Oak Harbor
Oak Harbor sits on Whidbey Island in the San Juan archipelago, with access to the tidal channels, rocky shoals, and current-swept humps that spread across the surrounding waters of the Salish Sea. Chinook and Coho Salmon anchor the summer fishery, both peaking from June through September, while Pacific Halibut moves through from March into June and Lingcod turns on in February and March. The 34 spots here cluster around exposed rock structure and offshore humps as well as more sheltered island passes, giving anglers options across a range of conditions. Salmon draw the heaviest effort in the warmer months, with halibut and lingcod filling out the spring calendar. Trolling carries most of the Chinook Salmon effort across these waters.