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Pachena Point

48.72°N · 125.11°W

BoatPFMA 123-1Chinook Salmon · Open

Pachena Point Fishing Forecast

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What's biting now around Bamfield: Chinook

Chinook fishing at Pachena Point looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 9 AM, with the tide ebbing.

ReelCaster scores every hour at Pachena Point 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 · 8 AM
76/100
GOOD

Now 20 · 4 AM PDT

BEST WINDOW
8 AM-9 AM
Tide ebbing
DFO · PFMA 123-1 · Chinook Salmon openRegulations ↗2 per day · min 45 cm · barbless hook and line
14-Day Forecast
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24-Hour Conditions

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Conditions
Time
4 AM
Now
Score
20
Tough
Tide
6.6 ft ▲
Flooding
Current
—
Flood
Wind
5 kn
N · steady
Sea state
Rough
2.1 m @ 8 s W
Air temp
9°
Cold
Weather
Clear
0% cloud
Hour 4 AM. Score 20 Tough. Tide 6.6ft Rising ▲. Current +1.6kn Flood. Wind 5kn N G5. Sea 2.1 m @ 8 s W Rough. Air 9.0°.
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 openCoho Salmon Retention openHalibut Retention open
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Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 123-1 · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Chinook Salmon is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
40-160 ft
Rock
STRUCTURE
Drop Off
Outer Exposed

Pachena Point is an outer-exposed rocky drop-off off Bamfield, British Columbia, where the bottom falls from roughly 70 to 240 feet. The structure holds Pacific Halibut, which peak from March through August, alongside Chinook Salmon from May through August and Coho Salmon from May through September. Anglers work the deeper edges of the drop-off for halibut with drift jigging, using leadhead jigs with soft plastics, metal jigs, or salmon belly, and back that up with bottom bait fishing on whole herring, salmon heads, octopus, or squid. Chinook hold to trolling with anchovy, herring, flashers, and hootchies, with mooching cut-plug herring a productive alternative along the same contours. Coho respond to trolling spoons and hootchies, and bucktailing flies works over the exposed surface water as the fish move through.

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