Today's best fishing in Kyuquot: 7 AM to 10 AM
This page is full of real data to show you what you can see with ReelCaster in Kyuquot.
The next 14 days in Kyuquot
Data from: ECMWF + GFS + BlueCasterTwo weeks ahead
Most forecasts stop at the weekend. This one runs a full 14 days, so you can pick the day before you book the time off.
One number, out of 100
The best score anything in Kyuquot reaches that day. Green is good, amber is fair, red is slow, and you can read it from across the room.
13,440 scores behind it
40 spots, every hour of every day, out to 14. This row is the best of them.
Hour by hour today at Minx Rocks
All times PDTOne real spot
A city has no tide or wind of its own, so this is Minx Rocks, the most fished mark in Kyuquot, scored for Chinook Salmon.
Six readings, one clock
Tide, current, wind, sea, air and sky, all lined up on the same hour, so you can see what is actually driving the score.
Currents, not just tides
Modelled flow for the water off Kyuquot, so you can see slack coming before you leave the dock.
The spots people actually fish in Kyuquot
34 more on the mapA year of catch reports
The order here is how much each mark actually gets fished, not today's guess. The busiest water in Kyuquot comes first.
Today's number too
Beside each name is the best score that spot reaches today, so you can weigh a proven mark against a good forecast.
Every mark has a page
Its own chart, its own species and its own rules, worked out the same way as everything above.
- 89Minx RocksKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Low slack · Lumpy · Rock reef
- 89Cole RockKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Early flood · Lumpy · Rock reef
- 89Chief RockKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Early flood · Lumpy · Rock reef
- 89Rolston IslandKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Low slack · Lumpy · Rock reef
- 89Yakats RockKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Early flood · Lumpy · Rock reef
- 89Mission GroupKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Late ebb · Lumpy · Rock reef
Every spot we score in Kyuquot
Bathymetry: NONNA-10 + NRCanReal charted seabed
Depth soundings, not a stock map. The banks, reefs and drop-offs are where you can see them.
40 marks, all scored
Every spot we cover around Kyuquot, each one carrying its own number for today.
Point at any of them
The name, how busy a mark it is, and the tide, sea and seabed at its best hour.
Create custom spots
Our full model on your custom private spots.
- Drop a pinAnywhere on the water. The ledge you found, the bay nobody talks about.
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- Choose speciesPick what you fish there, and it starts scoring from the next run.
What you can keep in Kyuquot today
- Chinook SalmonKeep2 a day · min 45 cmOpen at all 39 spots we cover
- Coho SalmonKeep2 a day · min 30 cmOpen at all 35 spots we cover
- HalibutKeep2 a dayOpen at all 38 spots we cover
- LingcodKeep3 a day · min 65 cmOpen at all 40 spots we cover
- Black RockfishClosedShut at all 19 spots we cover
Rules differ between PFMAs and change in season. Check DFO for the PFMA you are fishing before you keep anything.
That was one day. Pro opens the next fourteen.
Every spot on this map, hour by hour, two weeks out, with alerts when your water crosses the score you set.
$0 today, then $33 CAD a year, which is $2.75 a month. Card required, cancel any time.
When to fish Kyuquot
Each row is shaded against that species' own best month here, so a dark cell means a good month for that fish rather than a comparison between them.
| Species | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook Salmon | ||||||||||||
| Coho Salmon | ||||||||||||
| Halibut | ||||||||||||
| Lingcod | ||||||||||||
| Black Rockfish |
Chinook Salmon: January none, February poor, March fair, April fair, May excellent, June peak, July peak, August peak, September fair, October poor, November poor, December none. Coho Salmon: January none, February none, March none, April poor, May fair, June peak, July peak, August peak, September peak, October none, November none, December none. Halibut: January none, February poor, March excellent, April peak, May peak, June peak, July peak, August excellent, September fair, October poor, November none, December none. Lingcod: January fair, February fair, March fair, April good, May good, June good, July good, August good, September good, October fair, November fair, December fair. Black Rockfish: January fair, February fair, March good, April good, May good, June good, July good, August good, September good, October fair, November fair, December fair.
- Chinook Salmon. Kyuquot Sound sits on the outer west coast of Vancouver Island where feeder (winter) Chinook hold offshore over reefs and banks through winter and spring, giving a moderate baseline. Abundance climbs sharply from June as migratory Chinook stage along the coast heading to the Fraser and mainland rivers, peaking in mid-to-late July when large returning fish stack up before tapering through late August into fall.
- Coho Salmon. Kyuquot coho are a strong summer-fall fishery; feeder/immature coho build offshore through June-July with the peak abundance arriving late July into September as maturing fish stage along the coast before their fall river runs, then numbers crash by October once fish enter freshwater. Winter and early spring are near-absent as the stock is at sea and dispersed far offshore.
- Halibut. Pacific halibut off Kyuquot are most abundant late spring through summer as fish move onto the shallower continental shelf banks to feed after their deep-water winter spawning migration. Abundance peaks in June-July, tapers through fall, and bottoms in winter (Dec-Feb) when adults are offshore in deep spawning grounds, though some fish remain present year-round.
- Lingcod. Lingcod are resident, structure-oriented bottomfish present year-round off Kyuquot, so abundance never drops to zero. A modest late-winter/spring dip reflects the guarding phase and post-spawn dispersal, while the strong summer peak (Jul–Aug) marks aggregation over reefs and pinnacles as warmer water and abundant baitfish concentrate feeding fish on the exposed West Coast Vancouver Island banks.
- Black Rockfish. Black rockfish are non-migratory residents of Kyuquot's rocky reefs and kelp beds year-round, so abundance stays relatively flat with no true biological absence. A modest late-spring through summer rise reflects warming nearshore water and adults moving shallower and becoming more active/aggregated over structure, while winter cold pushes fish slightly deeper and less concentrated.
Before you go
Water around Kyuquot falls into 7 areas, and the rules can differ between them. Fisheries and Oceans Canada sets them.
- 26-1
- 26-2
- 26-5
- 26-6
- 26-7
- 26-10
- 126-1
Tidal Waters Sport Fishing Licence
Fisheries and Oceans Canada · 2026-27
Annual, Canadian resident, 16 to 64: $25.86
Salmon Conservation Stamp $7.39, required to keep any salmon. Releasing does not need it.
This is the federal tidal licence. Fishing fresh water in BC needs a separate provincial licence, and one does not cover the other.
Fishing Kyuquot
Kyuquot sits on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island, fronting the exposed waters of the outer coast and the sheltered channels behind its scattered islands and reefs. Across roughly 40 spots, anglers target Lingcod, which peaks from March through August, Chinook Salmon through the May-to-August stretch, and Pacific Halibut across the spring and summer months. The fishing spread ranges from rocky headlands and open reefs facing the Pacific to the more protected inside waters among the islands, where Coho Salmon fill out the run from June into September. Chinook are worked mainly by trolling along productive tidelines and structure. The core fishery carries through spring and summer, with the busiest months falling between May and August.