Commencement Bay
47.29°N · 122.47°W
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Current regulations
In effect nowWhat you can keep at this spot today
- Daily limit
- 1 per day
- Possession
- Not published
- Size
- Minimum 22"
- Annual quota
- Not published
- Other
- Entire Area (excluding Commencement Bay and piers). Open Wednesday–Saturday only; closed Sunday–Tuesday. Min. size 22" (55.9 cm). Daily limit 2 total salmon including no more than 1 Chinook. Release wild Chinook; only hatchery Chinook may be retained.
- Season
- Mar 31 to Apr 30
Source: WDFW · Marine Area 11 · synced today
Seasonality
52-week view · today highlightedWhen Chinook Salmon is best at this spot
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Commencement Bay is an inner, protected bay on the Tacoma waterfront in Washington, sitting inside the sheltered waters where the city meets Puget Sound. The bottom here is predominantly mud, and depths range from about 10 to 60 feet across the flats and channels. Its protected exposure keeps the surface calmer than the open sound, and the soft mud bottom shapes how fish hold and move through the bay. The shallower margins and deeper cuts give anglers a range of water to work within that 10-to-60-foot band. As a whole, the bay offers structured, accessible water framed by the surrounding urban shoreline.
Commencement Bay is one of the spots we track around Tacoma. See every scored spot in Washington.
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