Mitchell Point is a mid-exposure drop-off in Seattle's DFO Subarea 10, where a mixed bottom falls away through 80 to 200 feet. Chinook Salmon peak from July through September and Coho from June through October, both taken by trolling cut-plug herring, whole herring, flashers with hoochies, or trolling spoons, with mooching as a supporting approach along the break. Lingcod hold on the structure with a January peak and a longer run from February through April, responding to metal jigs, leadhead jigs with swimbaits, and bucktail jigs worked close to the bottom. Pacific Halibut move through from March to August and take drift-jigged metal jigs and leadhead jigs with plastic, while Black Rockfish stay catchable most of the year on jigs and soft plastics over the same mixed ground. The depth gradient concentrates fish along the edge of the drop, making it worth working jigs down the slope and adjusting depth as the tide shifts bait across the structure.

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