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

Kelp Greenling

Hexagrammos decagrammus. Prime water reaches Neah Bay in Pacific Northwest right now (47°F on the bottom). Fish it 10–66 ft down — that is where 52–48°F water sits off Neah Bay.

Kelp Greenling identification illustration
LaneInshore · 10 fa (60 ft)
Depth it holds10–115 ft
Prime water46–59°F (workable 46–64°F)
Holds in the column10–115 ft down (on the bottom)
Judged onseabed temperature (RTOFS at depth)
Structurerequires shallow rock and kelp

The water column off Neah Bay

0 ft33 ft66 ft56 ft of workable water10–66 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 Kelp Greenling's temperature band (46–64°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

Small baits in the rocks and kelp — the reliable fish when the swell keeps you inshore.

Region by region — right now

RegionSeasonPrime waterTempFish it atMonths
Pacific Northwest in season reaches Neah Bay 47°F 10–66 ft
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F
M
A
M
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A
S
California in season reaches San Francisco 54°F 10–52 ft
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F
M
A
M
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A
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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 seabed temperature sits inside this species' band. It is water, not a sighting report.
Charted grounds on the 10-fathom lane
The Farallon Islands