Inshore · 60 ft · beaches, bays, inlets and rips

Coho (Silver) Salmon

Oncorhynchus kisutch. Prime water reaches Neah Bay in Pacific Northwest right now (59°F at the surface). Fish it 7–66 ft down — that is where 52–48°F water sits off Neah Bay.

Coho (Silver) Salmon identification illustration
LaneInshore · 10 fa (60 ft)
Depth it holds26–131 ft
Prime water48–59°F (workable 48–64°F)
Holds in the column7–131 ft down below the surface, over 26–131 ft of water
Judged onsurface temperature (NASA MUR satellite)
Structurenone

The water column off Neah Bay

0 ft33 ft66 ft59 ft of workable water7–66 ft · 52–48°F

The strip is the water itself, coloured by temperature from the surface down to the 66 ft surveyed bottom at that spot — one band per RTOFS model level. The outlined stretch is where Coho (Silver) Salmon's temperature band (48–64°F) and the depth it holds actually overlap. That thickness is the number that matters: it is how much water you can work, not just whether the spot is warm enough somewhere. One model cycle, not a weekly archive — this holds still while the surface map scrubs.

How it's fished

Fast-troll small spoons high in the column on tide lines and color breaks.

Region by region — right now

RegionSeasonPrime waterTempFish it atMonths
Pacific Northwest in season reaches Neah Bay 59°F 7–66 ft
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F
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California in season reaches San Francisco 61°F 7–52 ft
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"Fish it at" is where this species' temperature band and its holding depth overlap in the water column, from the RTOFS profile (13 levels, 0–300 m) — the depth to actually put a bait, not just the place. "Prime water" is the furthest sampled station on the 10-fathom lane whose surface temperature sits inside this species' band. It is water, not a sighting report.
Charted grounds on the 10-fathom lane
The Farallon Islands