Netarts Bay Boat Launch
Boat launch- Lands
- Dungeness, the coast's steadiest bay.
- Best on
- Any tide; salinity holds even after rain.
- Access
- Main boat launch.
Places / Estuary / Bay
no major river · high salinity
A small bay with no major freshwater river, so salinity stays high and crabbing stays consistent, one of the most reliable crab bays on the coast.
Now · Thursday, September 3
Weather
60°F
Partly cloudy · wind 4 mph
Water temp
n/a
no station
Seas / safety
11.5 ft
Small Craft Advisory · wind 19 kt
Next tide
Low 1:25 AM
next low 1:25 AM · 0.2′
Tide
When to go — crab feed on the slack
Go at 7:53 AMhigh slack · ~13h out
At Netarts 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 9437262 · Open-Meteo · NDBC 46050. Clams and crab work best on the low.
Local provisions
High, stable salinity = dependable Dungeness even when rain blows out the river-fed bays. Strong bay-clam flats on the minus tides, and the coast's storied oyster ground: the native Olympia was farmed here at Whiskey Creek, and naturalized Pacific oysters still hold on the bay rock.
The actual places you stand: what each lands, when it turns on, and how you get on it.