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Melville Island

54.36°N · 130.74°W

BoatPFMA 4-1Chinook Salmon · Open

Melville Island Fishing Forecast

Updated today

Chinook fishing at Melville Island looks good today.
The best time to go is 6 PM to 7 PM, with the tide flooding.

ReelCaster scores every hour at Melville Island 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 · 6 PM
78/100
GOOD

Now 58 · 8 AM PDT

BEST WINDOW
6 PM-7 PM
Tide flooding
DFO · PFMA 4-1 · 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
8 AM
Now
Score
58
Fair
Tide
14.8 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
—
Ebb
Wind
16 kn
SSE · steady
Sea state
Choppy
0.8 m @ 8 s W
Air temp
9°
Cold
Weather
Rain
0.8 mm/h
Hour 8 AM. Score 58 Fair. Tide 14.8ft Falling ▼. Current +0.1kn Slack. Wind 16kn SSE G21. Sea 0.8 m @ 8 s W Choppy. Air 9.4°.
Why this score
Light
Golden hour
Prime
Current
Slack
Tough

Current regulations

In effect now

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
Lingcod Retention openCoho Salmon Retention openHalibut Retention openSpiny Dogfish Catch & releaseChum salmon Catch & releaseCanary Rockfish Retention open
Always check with DFO ↗

Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 4-1 · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Chinook Salmon is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
40-150 ft
Rock
STRUCTURE
Mixed
Outer Exposed

Melville Island sits in the waters off Prince Rupert, British Columbia, offering structured habitat in depths from 40 to 150 feet that holds bottomfish and passing salmon. Pacific Halibut move through from April to August, Chinook Salmon show in two windows spanning February to April and April to July, and Coho Salmon fill in from May to September. Anglers work the deeper edges with drift jigging using leadhead jigs and heavy metal jigs for halibut, switching to bait fishing on anchor with whole herring or salmon heads when the drift slows. Chinook respond to downrigger trolling with anchovy in teaser heads and hootchies behind flashers along the contour breaks, while cut-plug herring on the mooching gear works the mid-column. Coho stay higher in the water, taking trolling spoons and plastic squids behind the downriggers or bucktail flies skimmed across the surface.

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