ReelCaster

Today's best fishing in Nanaimo: 6 AM to 9 AM

This page is full of real data to show you what you can see with ReelCaster in Nanaimo.

The next 14 days in Nanaimo

Data from: ECMWF + GFS + BlueCaster

  • Two 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 Nanaimo reaches that day. Green is good, amber is fair, red is slow, and you can read it from across the room.

  • 7,392 scores behind it

    22 spots, every hour of every day, out to 14. This row is the best of them.

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Hour by hour today at Entrance Island (Nanaimo)

All times PDT

  • One real spot

    A city has no tide or wind of its own, so this is Entrance Island (Nanaimo), the most fished mark in Nanaimo, 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 Nanaimo, so you can see slack coming before you leave the dock.

Conditions
Time
10 PM
Now
Score
20
Tough
Tide
12.3 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
—
Ebb
Wind
6 kn
SSW · steady
Sea state
Rippled
0.2 m
Air temp
17°
Mild
Weather
Clear
2% cloud
Hour 10 PM. Score 20 Tough. Tide 12.3ft Falling ▼. Current -1.1kn Ebb. Wind 6kn SSW G13. Sea 0.2m Rippled. Air 17.2°.

The spots people actually fish in Nanaimo

16 more on the map

  • A year of catch reports

    The order here is how much each mark actually gets fished, not today's guess. The busiest water in Nanaimo 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.

Every spot we score in Nanaimo

Bathymetry: NONNA-10 + NRCan

  • Real charted seabed

    Depth soundings, not a stock map. The banks, reefs and drop-offs are where you can see them.

  • 22 marks, all scored

    Every spot we cover around Nanaimo, 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.

  1. Drop a pinAnywhere on the water. The ledge you found, the bay nobody talks about.
  2. Name itYour name for it, not ours. It stays private to your account.
  3. Choose speciesPick what you fish there, and it starts scoring from the next run.

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.

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Before you go

Licence you need

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.

Full licence guideBuy from Fisheries and Oceans Canada

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