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Meares Bluff

48.86°N · 125.28°W

BoatPFMA 23-7Chinook Salmon · Open

Meares Bluff Fishing Forecast

Updated today

What's biting now around Bamfield: Chinook

Chinook fishing at Meares Bluff looks good today.
The best time to go is 6 PM to 7 PM, with the tide ebbing.

ReelCaster scores every hour at Meares Bluff from 0 to 100, reading the tide, current, wind and weather for Chinook. The higher the score, the better your odds. Green means go.

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Every spot is scored for today, out of 100. Green is worth the trip, amber is fair, red is slow.

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Best score for the day · 6 PM
76/100
GOOD

Now 62 · 2 PM PDT

BEST WINDOW
6 PM-7 PM
Tide ebbing
DFO · PFMA 23-7 · Chinook Salmon openRegulations ↗2 per day · min 45 cm · barbless hook and line
Recent reports
Updated 8 weeks ago

Chinook Salmon and Coho Salmon in the latest reports from this spot

14-Day Forecast
Data from: ECMWF + GFS + BlueCaster
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24-Hour Conditions

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Conditions
Time
2 PM
Now
Score
62
Fair
Tide
8.2 ft ▲
Flooding
Current
—
Flood
Wind
12 kn
W · steady
Sea state
Lumpy
2.2 m @ 8 s W
Air temp
11°
Mild
Weather
Clear
0% cloud
Hour 2 PM. Score 62 Fair. Tide 8.2ft Rising ▲. Current +1.0kn Flood. Wind 12kn W G16. Sea 2.2 m @ 8 s W Lumpy. Air 11.0°.
Why this score
Light
Golden hour
Prime
Current
Slack
Tough

Current regulations

In effect now

What you can keep at this spot today

Chinook Salmon
Retention open
Daily limit
2 per day
Possession
Not published
Size
Minimum 45 cm
Gear
barbless hook and line
Annual quota
Not published
Other species here
Lingcod Retention openHalibut Retention openRockfish (Aggregate) Retention openCoho Salmon Retention open
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Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 23-7 · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Chinook Salmon is best at this spot

Off seasonOff season for Chinook Salmon
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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
40-130 ft
Rock
STRUCTURE
Drop Off
Outer Exposed

Meares Bluff is an outer-exposed rocky drop-off near Bamfield, British Columbia, where the bottom falls from about 60 to 180 feet along a hard rock edge. Lingcod hold on this structure and peak from February through April and again from July through September, taken by jigging with metal jigs, swimbaits, and leadhead jigs, or with live bait such as greenling and herring worked close to the rock. Chinook Salmon move through from May to August and respond to trolling with anchovy, herring, flashers, and hootchies, while mooching cut-plug herring covers the same window. Coho Salmon run May through September and take trolled spoons, hootchies, and cut-plug herring along the exposed edge. The drop-off concentrates fish where the depth breaks, so working the transition zone from the shallow lip down to the deeper rock keeps baits in productive water.

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