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Puget Sound Dungeness Crabbing Winter
Puget Sound Winter Crabbing Season

Puget Sound’s late-season Dungeness crab fishery is open October 1 to December 31, 2025, offering seven-day access across key marine areas.
Steelhead Float Fishing Setup Rigging
Steelhead Rigging: Float Fishing Setup

Our step-by-step Steelhead float fishing guide covers everything you need from bobber stops, leaders, and jigs for fishing Washington’s rivers effectively this season.
Seattle Fishing Company
Our Guide to Fishing the Hoh River

Explore Washington’s Hoh River, open year-round for Steelhead, Salmon, and Trout. Peak seasons run August–March, with prime access from Upper Hoh Road to Oil City Road.
Seattle Fishing Company
Best Lures for Steelhead Fishing

Discover Seattle Fishing Co.’s top Steelhead lures from float fishing to drift tactics, our guide breaks down the best lures across Washington, Oregon, and beyond.
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Our Guide to Fishing the Queets River

Explore the Queets River, a glacier-fed Olympic Peninsula gem with year-round Trout and peak Steelhead and Salmon runs from August through January.

Rigging, How to and Gear Guide

Rigging, How to and Gear Guide

Our Favorite Halibut Fishing Rigs & Setups

Our Favorite Halibut Fishing Rigs & Setups

We've spent plenty of time fishing for Halibut in Washington, Alaska, British Columbia and Oregon and found a few setups that work really well. Use this post as a general guideline, and feel free to use it as motivation to create your own setups! 

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Halibut Rigging: Spin-N-Glo Hoochie & Weight Slider Setup

Halibut Rigging: Spin-N-Glo Hoochie & Weight Slider Setup

This setup is deadly effective, and we love the simplicity of the slider rig which is a great option if you're fishing with a buoyant setup like the Spin-N-Glo & Hoochie combination. The hoochies we usually rig are anywhere from 7.5" to 9" in a variety of colors including white, glow, orange, hot pink, green, purple. Make sure you slide a small corky on the leader before your hoochie, so that the hoochie skirt has something to rest on above the hooks. 

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Halibut Rigging: Plastic Grub & Spreader Bar Setup

Halibut Rigging: Plastic Grub & Spreader Bar Setup

A jumbo rubber curly tail grub can be one of the best lures for Halibut, and we have a couple that are proven to catch Halibut. We tie a heavy duty leader with a single Gamakatsu Big River Bait Hook, push the grub up past they eye and attach it to one of our glow spreader bars. The spreader helps lift the grub off the bottom, and with a slow lift-and-fall action of the rod, that curly tail will work its magic and get you into Halibut.

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Halibut Rigging: Spin N Glo Skirt & Spreader Bar Setup

Halibut Rigging: Spin N Glo Skirt & Spreader Bar Setup

This is one of our more traditional Halibut fishing setups. It's popular both offshore, in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and inside Puget Sound. The spreader bar allows for a tangle free drop, as long as your leader isn't too long. We like the Jumbo Spin-N-Glo's because they both add to the attraction of the setup, but also help float the setup and keep the hooks from dragging along the sea floor. 

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Halibut Rigging: B2 Squid & Weight Slider Setup

Halibut Rigging: B2 Squid & Weight Slider Setup

This is one of our favorite Halibut fishing setups, and is perfect whether you're fishing on anchor or drifting and jigging. We have had major success with this setup far offshore as well as deep into Puget Sound. 

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