Today's best fishing in Olympia: 7 AM to 10 AM
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Today's best fishing in Olympia: 7 AM to 10 AM
Updated today
What's biting now near Olympia: Coho
Coho fishing at Olympia Shoal looks good today.
ReelCaster scores every hour at Olympia Shoal 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 Olympia Shoal.
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 Olympia
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 Olympia 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 Olympia Shoal
All times PDTOne real spot
A city has no tide or wind of its own, so this is Olympia Shoal, the most fished mark in Olympia, 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 Olympia, so you can see slack coming before you leave the dock.
What others are saying about ReelCaster Pro
The spots people actually fish in Olympia
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 Olympia 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.
- 86Olympia ShoalKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Mid flood · Flat · Sand flat
- 86Dofflemyer PointKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Early flood · Flat · Mixed bottom
- 85Gordon Point HumpKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Early ebb · Flat · Rock reef
- 85Silver SpitKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Mid flood · Flat · Sand flat
- 85Johnson PointKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Early flood · Flat · Mixed bottom
- 85Jeal PointKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Mid flood · Flat · Mixed bottom
Every spot we score in Olympia
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 Olympia, 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.
- Name itYour name for it, not ours. It stays private to your account.
- Choose speciesPick what you fish there, and it starts scoring from the next run.
What you can keep in Olympia today
- Chinook SalmonKeep2 a day · min 22"Open at all 34 spots we cover
- Coho SalmonKeep2 a dayOpen at all 33 spots we cover
- Chum SalmonReleaseCatch and release at all 2 spots we cover
- Dungeness CrabClosedShut at all 1 spot 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 Olympia
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook Salmon | ||||||||||||
| Coho Salmon | ||||||||||||
| Chum Salmon | ||||||||||||
| Dungeness Crab |
Chinook Salmon: January none, February poor, March fair, April good, May good, June peak, July peak, August peak, September fair, October none, November none, December none. Coho Salmon: January none, February none, March none, April none, May none, June poor, July good, August peak, September peak, October excellent, November none, December none. Chum Salmon: January none, February none, March none, April none, May none, June none, July none, August none, September none, October peak, November peak, December excellent. Dungeness Crab: January fair, February fair, March fair, April fair, May fair, June good, July excellent, August excellent, September good, October good, November fair, December fair.
- Chinook Salmon. Olympia sits at the far south end of Puget Sound (South Sound), so Chinook are terminal-run fish staging and migrating toward the Deschutes/Nisqually river systems, peaking late July through early September (weeks 30–36) as mature fish stack up before the fall spawning push. Abundance builds through summer with resident 'blackmouth' immature Chinook providing modest winter presence, then drops sharply in October once spawners enter freshwater, leaving only sparse resident feeders through the cold months.
- Coho Salmon. South Puget Sound coho are strongly seasonal; adults stage and push into deep South Sound waters near Olympia from late summer through fall, peaking early-to-mid September before entering the Deschutes and other terminal streams by mid-October. Faint spring/summer signal reflects immature 'resident' or feeder coho present in modest numbers as they grow, but the stock is biologically absent from these inner waters through winter and early spring.
- Chum Salmon. South Puget Sound chum stage and return to Olympia-area waters (Nisqually, Deschutes, and lower Sound terminal areas) in a tight late fall pulse, peaking early-to-mid November as fish push toward natal streams in cooling water. They are biologically absent the rest of the year while at sea, with abundance collapsing by early December after spawning fish move upriver.
- Dungeness Crab. In South Puget Sound near Olympia, Dungeness are present year-round but abundance of legal-sized, hard-shell crab peaks mid-to-late summer (July–August) after the spring molt when crabs harden and forage heavily. Early summer (June–early July) shows a dip as many males are soft-shelled post-molt, while winter numbers stay moderate as crabs move deeper and slow their activity in colder water.
Before you go
Water around Olympia falls into one area, and the rules can differ between them. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife sets them.
- 13 13 — South Puget Sound
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 Olympia
Olympia sits at the southern tip of Puget Sound, where a network of protected inlets and rocky points frames 35 fishing spots across the city's inside waters. Chinook Salmon run strongest from June through September, with Coho Salmon following through the peak months of July into October, while Lingcod and Pacific Halibut hold along the deeper structure. The spots cluster around sheltered points and shoreline headlands scattered through the sound's calmer reaches, giving anglers access to both salmon and bottom species. Trolling carries much of the Chinook fishery here, worked through the summer season when the fish move through in numbers. The calendar centers on the warmer months, when salmon activity builds and the inside waters see their most consistent action.