Port of Garibaldi Launch
Boat launch- Lands
- Dungeness and red rock crab, near the jaws.
- Best on
- Fish the lower bay on the incoming, especially after a freshet.
- Access
- Main launch, plus a crab dock.
Places / Estuary / Bay
Garibaldi · five-rivers estuary
A large, five-river estuary: strong crab and bay clams, but responsive to freshwater inflow.
Now · Thursday, September 3
Weather
58°F
Overcast · wind 7 mph
Water temp
n/a
no station
Seas / safety
11.5 ft
Building seas · wind 19 kt
Next tide
Low 12:40 AM
next low 12:40 AM · 0.3′
Tide
When to go — crab feed on the slack
Go at 7:23 AMhigh slack · ~12h out
At Tillamook 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 9437540 · Open-Meteo · NDBC 46050. Clams and crab work best on the low.
Local provisions
Heavy rain pushes crab out toward the jaws as salinity drops; fish the lower bay and incoming tide after a freshet. NOAA station 9437540 at Garibaldi (tides only).
The actual places you stand: what each lands, when it turns on, and how you get on it.