Today's best fishing in Port Renfrew: 7 AM to 10 AM
This page is full of real data to show you what you can see with ReelCaster in Port Renfrew.
The next 14 days in Port Renfrew
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 Port Renfrew reaches that day. Green is good, amber is fair, red is slow, and you can read it from across the room.
5,376 scores behind it
16 spots, every hour of every day, out to 14. This row is the best of them.
Hour by hour today at Woods Nose
All times PDTOne real spot
A city has no tide or wind of its own, so this is Woods Nose, the most fished mark in Port Renfrew, scored for Lingcod.
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 Port Renfrew, so you can see slack coming before you leave the dock.
The spots people actually fish in Port Renfrew
10 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 Port Renfrew 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.
- 90Woods NoseKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Low slack · Chop · Rock reef
- 90Quartertide RocksKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Late ebb · Chop · Rock reef
- 90San Juan PointKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Mid ebb · Chop · Rock reef
- 90Cerantes RocksKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Mid ebb · Chop · Rock reef
- 89Kellett RockKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Mid ebb · Chop · Rock reef
- 89Owen PointKnown markBest 7 AM–10 AM · Early flood · Chop · Rock reef
Every spot we score in Port Renfrew
Bathymetry: NONNA-10 + NRCanReal charted seabed
Depth soundings, not a stock map. The banks, reefs and drop-offs are where you can see them.
16 marks, all scored
Every spot we cover around Port Renfrew, 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.
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What you can keep in Port Renfrew today
- Chinook SalmonKeep in places2 a day · min 45 cmOpen at 9 of 16 spots we cover
- HalibutKeep2 a dayOpen at all 16 spots we cover
- Coho SalmonKeep2 a day · min 30 cmOpen at all 13 spots we cover
- LingcodKeep3 a day · min 65 cmOpen at all 16 spots we cover
- Black RockfishClosedShut at all 8 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 Port Renfrew
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 | ||||||||||||
| Halibut | ||||||||||||
| Coho Salmon | ||||||||||||
| Lingcod | ||||||||||||
| Black Rockfish |
Chinook Salmon: January poor, February poor, March poor, April poor, May good, June peak, July peak, August peak, September good, October poor, November poor, December poor. Halibut: January none, February poor, March good, April peak, May peak, June peak, July peak, August excellent, September good, October poor, November none, December none. Coho Salmon: January none, February none, March none, April none, May fair, June peak, July peak, August peak, September peak, October poor, November none, December none. Lingcod: January fair, February good, March fair, April fair, May fair, June excellent, July excellent, August good, September fair, 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. Port Renfrew sits at the mouth of Juan de Fuca Strait and intercepts migratory Chinook bound for the Fraser, Columbia, and other systems, producing a strong summer peak from late June through August (weeks 26–33) as returning stocks stage offshore near Swiftsure Bank. A resident/feeder Chinook population supports a modest winter baseline, so abundance never drops to zero, with the leanest presence in early spring (weeks 40–44) after the migratory push has passed.
- Halibut. Pacific halibut migrate onto the shallower Port Renfrew banks and Swiftsure area as spring warms, peaking late spring through summer (May–September) when feeding is heaviest and fish are actively hunting bait. A secondary early-fall bump reflects fish fattening before their offshore winter spawning migration to deeper Pacific waters, after which abundance drops through winter when much of the stock has moved out to deep continental slope habitat.
- Coho Salmon. Coho abundance off Port Renfrew builds through summer as ocean-feeding fish migrate into Juan de Fuca waters, peaking sharply in late August through mid-September (weeks 31–35) during the fall return; a modest early-summer bump reflects immature feeder coho, and numbers collapse after October as spawners enter rivers and remaining fish leave the coast.
- Lingcod. Lingcod are resident year-round on Port Renfrew's rocky reefs and never biologically absent, but abundance on accessible structure peaks in summer (weeks 22-31, roughly late May through early August) when fish concentrate at shallower nearshore reefs post-spawn and feed heavily. A mild late-winter dip (weeks 13-17) reflects males guarding nests deeper and spawned-out females being less concentrated after the Jan-Mar spawn.
- Black Rockfish. Black Rockfish are resident, non-migratory reef dwellers off Port Renfrew, so abundance is broadly stable year-round with only modest seasonal variation. The gentle summer peak reflects warmer water and higher near-surface schooling activity over shallow structure, while winter shows fish holding deeper and slightly less concentrated but never absent.
Before you go
Water around Port Renfrew falls into 4 areas, and the rules can differ between them. Fisheries and Oceans Canada sets them.
- 20-1
- 20-2
- 20-3
- 20-4
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 Port Renfrew
Port Renfrew sits on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, where the Strait of Juan de Fuca opens to the exposed waters of the Pacific. Its 16 fishing spots cluster along offshore humps and rocky structure off the outer coast, drawing anglers to productive bottom terrain and open-water salmon lanes. Chinook Salmon run from May through September, Lingcod hold from May to August, and Pacific Halibut move through the area from March into August, with Coho Salmon filling out the season from June to September. Most of the fishery concentrates over the underwater humps and headlands well off the shoreline, where depth and current concentrate fish. Chinook are worked primarily by trolling across these outer grounds through the warmer months when the fishery peaks.