Lockheed Shipyard, Harbor Island, WA Fishing Guide

Species at Lockheed Shipyard, Harbor Island

• Chinook salmon

  Fall stock stages in bays, bites the incoming on tide change

  Season: Aug–Oct · Tide: the incoming tide · Light: low light · Water: 52–62°F

• Coho salmon

  Silvers school the bay mouth on a moving tide, dawn best

  Season: Sep–Nov · Tide: moving water · Light: low light · Water: 50–60°F

• Lingcod

  Spring spawners move shallow to rocks, bite the first of the incoming

  Season: Mar–Jun · Tide: the incoming tide · Light: low light · Water: 46–55°F

• Black rockfish

  Schools on the jetty year-round; moving water turns them on

  Season: Apr–Oct · Tide: moving water · Light: any light · Water: 48–58°F

• Redtail surfperch

  Pre-spawn fish stack in bays, feed the hour before high

  Season: Apr–Jul · Tide: the incoming tide · Light: any light · Water: 48–58°F

• Kelp greenling

  Holds tight to kelp and rock; moving water brings the bite

  Season: Apr–Oct · Tide: moving water · Light: any light · Water: 48–56°F

• White sturgeon

  Stack in deep estuary holes; bite hardest on a strong moving tide

  Season: Apr–Jul · Tide: the outgoing tide · Light: any light · Water: 50–64°F

• Striped bass

  Spring pre-spawn and fall fish feed tidewater on moving water

  Season: Apr–Jun, Sep–Oct · Tide: moving water · Light: low light · Water: 55–68°F

• Sea-run cutthroat trout

  Late-summer harvest trout chase fry in low light on a moving tide

  Season: Jul–Oct · Tide: moving water · Light: low light · Water: 50–60°F

• Starry flounder

  Winter-spring spawners feed the estuary bottom, peak February

  Season: Jan–Apr, Dec · Tide: moving water · Light: bright daylight · Water: 45–55°F

• Pile perch

  Works pilings and rock structure, moving water feeds them

  Season: May–Sep · Tide: moving water · Light: any light · Water: 50–62°F

• Cabezon

  Rocky-reef ambusher; takes bait on the bottom in moving water

  Season: Mar–Oct · Tide: moving water · Light: any light · Water: 48–58°F

• Sand sole

  Sandy bay-mouth flatfish; feeds the incoming over sand

  Season: May–Sep · Tide: the incoming tide · Light: bright daylight · Water: 52–62°F

• Dungeness crab

  Post-molt fall crab forage and walk on the slack, high best

  Season: Sep–Dec · Tide: slack water · Light: any light · Water: 48–60°F

What's biting at Lockheed Shipyard, Harbor Island, month by month

Typical seasons for this stretch of coast — a warm or late year shifts them by a few weeks. The live forecast scores today's actual conditions.

How Lockheed Shipyard, Harbor Island fishes

Open water lies to the west of Lockheed Shipyard, Harbor Island. A wind out of the west is onshore here — it stacks swell and chop into the mouth and pushes stirred-up water inshore, while an east wind flattens the surface and tends to clean it up.

Tide is the clock: moving water pulls bait through the mouth, and the turns around slack are when most of the roster feeds hardest.

Tides here are read from NOAA station 9447110 at 47.5850, -122.3620 — see it on NOAA CO-OPS.

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Common questions about Lockheed Shipyard, Harbor Island

What fish can you catch at Lockheed Shipyard, Harbor Island?

Chinook salmon, Coho salmon, Lingcod, Black rockfish, Redtail surfperch, Kelp greenling, White sturgeon, Striped bass, Sea-run cutthroat trout, Starry flounder, Pile perch, Cabezon and 2 more. Each has its own season, preferred tide and water-temperature window at Lockheed Shipyard, Harbor Island.

When is the best time to fish Lockheed Shipyard, Harbor Island?

September has the most species in season (10 of 14) — Chinook salmon, Coho salmon, Black rockfish, Kelp greenling, Striped bass, Sea-run cutthroat trout, Pile perch, Cabezon. Seasons shift by a few weeks in a warm or late year.

What tide is best for fishing Lockheed Shipyard, Harbor Island?

8 of the 14 species here feed best on moving water. Moving water is what pulls bait through the mouth, so the hours either side of a tide change usually beat dead slack.

Which wind is bad for Lockheed Shipyard, Harbor Island?

Open water lies to the west, so a west wind is onshore — it stacks swell and chop into the mouth and pushes dirty water inshore. An east wind flattens and cleans it up.

Where are the tides for Lockheed Shipyard, Harbor Island measured?

NOAA CO-OPS station 9447110, at 47.5850, -122.3620. What Inlet? scores the live tide, current, solunar and weather for that station.

Inlets near Lockheed Shipyard, Harbor Island

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