Kelly's Brighton Marina
Marina- Lands
- Dungeness, with live keeper counts posted in season.
- Best on
- Call the count, then fish the incoming.
- Access
- Boat and ring rentals; no boat of your own needed.
Places / Estuary / Bay
Brighton · north county
A productive north-county estuary for crab and bay clams, with the best dock-side intel on the coast.
Now · Thursday, September 3
Weather
57°F
Overcast · wind 6 mph
Water temp
n/a
no station
Seas / safety
11.5 ft
Building seas · wind 19 kt
Next tide
Low 1:43 AM
next low 1:43 AM · 0.2′
Tide
When to go — crab feed on the slack
Go at 7:53 AMhigh slack · ~13h out
At Nehalem Bay, the peak is the high slack: the incoming carries the saltiest, cleanest water and the crab up the bay. Fish the last of the flood into it, along the channel edge.
Low-water windows ahead. Pick a day
Live · NOAA CO-OPS 9437908 · Open-Meteo · NDBC 46050. Clams and crab work best on the low.
Local provisions
Kelly's Brighton Marina posts real keeper counts in season, the closest thing to a live abundance gauge. River-influenced, so mind salinity after rain.
The actual places you stand: what each lands, when it turns on, and how you get on it.