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Sandford Island / Coaster Channel

48.87°N · 125.18°W

BoatPFMA 23-7Chinook Salmon · Open

Sandford Island / Coaster Channel Fishing Forecast

Updated today

What's biting now around Bamfield: Chinook

Chinook fishing at Sandford Island / Coaster Channel looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 1 PM, with the tide ebbing.

ReelCaster scores every hour at Sandford Island / Coaster Channel 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 · 9 AM
83/100
GOOD

Now 21 · 2 AM PDT

BEST WINDOW
8 AM-1 PM
Tide ebbing
DFO · PFMA 23-7 · Chinook Salmon openRegulations ↗2 per day · min 45 cm · barbless hook and line
Recent reports
Updated 6 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 AM
Now
Score
21
Tough
Tide
4.6 ft ▲
Flooding
Current
—
Flood
Wind
1 kn
E · steady
Sea state
Lumpy
1.7 m @ 8 s W
Air temp
11°
Cold
Weather
Clear
1% cloud
Hour 2 AM. Score 21 Tough. Tide 4.6ft Rising ▲. Current +1.0kn Flood. Wind 1kn E G1. Sea 1.7 m @ 8 s W Lumpy. Air 10.7°.
Why this score
Light
Low sun
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
Coho Salmon Retention openLingcod Retention openHalibut Retention openRockfish (Aggregate) 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

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
40-200 ft
Rock
STRUCTURE
Drop Off
Mid

Sandford Island's Coaster Channel is a rocky drop-off near Bamfield, British Columbia, where the bottom falls away through mid-exposure water from about 40 to 180 feet. The channel holds Chinook Salmon at their peak from May through August and Coho Salmon from May into September, with Rockfish concentrated over the rock structure from May through September. Trolling anchovy, herring, flashers, and hootchies works the salmon through the water column, while mooching cut-plug herring covers the shallower edges of the drop-off. Coho respond to trolling spoons and hootchies along the same lines, and bucktailing takes fish near the surface. For Rockfish, jigging metal and leadhead jigs or soft plastic swimbaits down along the rock produces over the deeper portions of the drop-off.

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