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Kinahan Islands

54.21°N · 130.41°W

BoatPFMA 4-9Chinook Salmon · Open

Kinahan Islands Fishing Forecast

Updated today

Chinook fishing at Kinahan Islands is fair today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 1 PM, with the tide ebbing.

ReelCaster scores every hour at Kinahan Islands 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 · 8 AM
74/100
FAIR

Now 20 · 10 PM PDT

BEST WINDOW
8 AM-1 PM
Tide ebbing
DFO · PFMA 4-9 · Chinook Salmon openRegulations ↗2 per day · min 45 cm · barbless hook and line
14-Day Forecast
Data from: ECMWF + GFS + BlueCaster
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24-Hour Conditions

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Conditions
Time
10 PM
Now
Score
20
Tough
Tide
13.4 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
—
Ebb
Wind
1 kn
SSE · steady
Sea state
Flat
0.3 m
Air temp
8°
Cold
Weather
Rain
0.8 mm/h
Hour 10 PM. Score 20 Tough. Tide 13.4ft Falling ▼. Current -1.6kn Ebb. Wind 1kn SSE G5. Sea 0.3 m Flat. Air 8.3°.
Why this score
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Current
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Tough

Current regulations

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What you can keep at this spot today

Chinook Salmon
Retention open
Daily limit
2 per day
Possession
4 in possession
Size
Minimum 45 cm
Gear
barbless hook and line
Annual quota
Not published
Other species here
Halibut Retention openCoho Salmon Retention openLingcod Retention openChum salmon Catch & releaseDungeness Crab Retention openRockfish (Aggregate) Retention openPink salmon Retention open
Always check with DFO ↗

Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 4-9 · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Chinook Salmon is best at this spot

Off seasonOff season for Chinook Salmon
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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
30-120 ft
Rock
STRUCTURE
Mixed
Outer Exposed

The Kinahan Islands sit west of Prince Rupert in the approaches to Chatham Sound, a cluster of rocky islets and kelp-fringed shoreline that concentrates baitfish and holds feeding salmon along their edges. Chinook Salmon are the headline target, with peaks running February through April and again April through July, while Coho Salmon fire from May through September. Working depths of 30 to 120 feet covers the productive water, where downrigger trolling with whole herring, anchovy in a teaser head, trolling spoons, or hootchies behind flashers is the dominant approach for Chinook, backed up by mooching cut-plug herring or jigging metal jigs and soft plastic swimbaits along the drop-offs. Coho respond to trolling spoons, hoochies, plastic squids, and cut plug herring on the downriggers, and turn aggressive to bucktail flies worked near the surface or metal jigs and casting spoons retrieved through breaking fish.

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