Point Monroe is an outer-exposed drop-off north of Seattle in DFO subarea 10, where a mixed bottom falls through depths of 80 to 200 feet. Chinook Salmon peak here from July through September and Coho Salmon run June through October, with both taken by trolling cut-plug herring, whole herring, trolling spoons, and flashers with hoochies, or by mooching along the edge. Pacific Halibut hold on the deeper mixed bottom from March through August, worked with drift jigging using metal jigs and leadhead jigs with plastic, or bait fishing on bottom with whole herring, octopus, and squid. Lingcod concentrate on the structure from February through April, responding to metal jigs, bucktail jigs, and leadhead jigs with swimbaits, while Black Rockfish stay active across most of the year on the same broken terrain. The steep drop-off channels current along the depth contour, so working jigs and baits near the break during moving tide keeps them in the strike zone.

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