PFMA 18-7Chinook Salmon · Open

Bold Bluff

48.79°N · 123.54°W

Best score for the day · 6 AM
81/100
GOOD

Now 67 · 8 PM PDT

BEST WINDOW
6 AM-12 PM
Tide flooding
DFO · PFMA 18-7 · Chinook Salmon openRegulations ↗2 per day · min 62 cm · barbless hook and line
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Conditions
Time
8 PM
Now
Score
67
Fair
Tide
7.0 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
Ebb
Wind
8 kn
SW · steady
Sea state
Calm
0.1 m
Air temp
19°
Warm
Weather
Overcast
85% cloud
Hour 8 PM. Score 67 Fair. Tide 7.0ft Falling ▼. Current -1.1kn Ebb. Wind 8kn SW G14. Sea 0.1m Calm. Air 18.7°.
Why this score
Tide
Mid flood
Fair
Light
Sunrise
Prime
Tide swing
4.6 ft range today
Prime

Current regulations

In effect now

What you can keep at this spot today

Chinook Salmon
Retention open
Daily limit
2 per day
Possession
2 in possession
Size
Minimum 62 cm
Gear
barbless hook and line
Annual quota
Not published
Other
1 combined total daily limit. No more than: 1 hatchery marked ≤80cm, 0 hatchery marked >80cm, 1 wild unmarked ≤80cm, 0 wild unmarked >80cm. Annual coastwide limit of 10. Must record all retained chinook on licence.
Other species here
Bocaccio Rockfish Catch & releaseCanary Rockfish Catch & releaseYelloweye Rockfish Catch & release
Always check with DFO

Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 18-7 · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Chinook Salmon is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
50-120 ft
LAUNCH
Not mapped
PEAK
STRUCTURE

Bold Bluff sits along the Cowichan shoreline in DFO subarea 18-7, where the seabed drops through a working depth of 50 to 120 feet. Chinook salmon are the primary target here, holding through a peak run from June to September. Downrigger trolling covers the bulk of the water at this spot, working anchovy in a teaser head, hootchies, trolling spoons, and flashers along the sloping bottom. Anglers also mooch cut-plug and whole herring or drop metal and soft plastic jigs to reach fish staged in the deeper part of the range. The bluff's steep contour concentrates fish through the summer months, making the 50-to-120-foot band the zone to focus on.

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