Elwha River Mouth
48.15°N · 123.57°W
Elwha River Mouth Fishing Forecast
Updated today
Dungeness Crab fishing at Elwha River Mouth looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 7 PM, with the tide flooding.
ReelCaster scores every hour at Elwha River Mouth from 0 to 100, reading the tide, current, wind and weather for Dungeness Crab. The higher the score, the better your odds. Green means go.
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Start free trialEvery spot is scored for today, out of 100. Green is worth the trip, amber is fair, red is slow.
Now 85 · 6 PM PDT
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Current regulations
In effect nowWhat you can keep at this spot today
- Daily limit
- 5 per day
- Possession
- Not published
- Size
- Minimum 6.3"
- Annual quota
- Not published
- Other
- Closed outside WDFW's announced crab seasons. Open Oct 1 to Dec 31 2026.
Source: WDFW · Marine Area 6 · synced today
Seasonality
52-week view · today highlightedWhen Dungeness Crab is best at this spot
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The Elwha River Mouth is an outer-exposed bay along the Strait of Juan de Fuca near Port Angeles, Washington, where mixed bottom terrain runs through depths of 5 to 40 feet. Chinook Salmon move through in strong numbers from June to August, while Coho Salmon peak from June to September and Cutthroat Trout hold near the estuary edges. Anglers targeting Chinook rely on trolling with whole herring, trolling spoons, flashers, and hootchies, with mooching cut-plug or whole herring and jigging metal jigs filling in over the mixed bottom. Coho respond to trolling flashers, hoochies, spoons, and cut-plug herring, and to mooching whole or cut-plug herring across the shallower stretches. The exposed setting and varied depth make it worth reading tide and current before committing to a depth range.
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