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BoatPFMA 19-5Chinook Salmon · Open

Sidney Spit

48.65°N · 123.33°W

BoatPFMA 19-5Chinook Salmon · Open

Sidney Spit Fishing Forecast

Updated today

Chinook fishing at Sidney Spit looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 1 PM, with the tide ebbing.

ReelCaster scores every hour at Sidney Spit 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 · 5 PM
81/100
GOOD

Now 81 · 6 PM PDT

BEST WINDOW
8 AM-1 PM
Tide ebbing
DFO · PFMA 19-5 · Chinook Salmon openRegulations ↗2 per day · min 62 cm · barbless hook and line
Recent reports
Updated 5 weeks ago

Chinook Salmon in the latest reports from this spot

14-Day Forecast
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24-Hour Conditions

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Conditions
Time
6 PM
Now
Score
81
Good
Tide
7.2 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
—
Ebb
Wind
7 kn
N · steady
Sea state
Flat
0.0 m chop
Air temp
11°
Mild
Weather
Overcast
100% cloud
Hour 6 PM. Score 81 Good. Tide 7.2ft Falling ▼. Current -0.3kn Slack. Wind 7kn N G12. Sea 0.0 m chop Flat. Air 11.2°.
Why this score
Light
Low sun
Prime
Current
0.7 kn light
Prime

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 62 cm
Gear
barbless hook and line
Annual quota
Not published
Other species here
Canary Rockfish Catch & releaseBocaccio Rockfish Catch & releaseYelloweye Rockfish Catch & releaseFlounder / Sole (Flatfish) Retention openChum salmon Retention openCod Retention openHerring Retention openRockfish (Aggregate) ClosedLingcod ClosedCoho Salmon Retention openPink salmon Retention openDungeness Crab Retention open
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Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 19-5 · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Chinook Salmon is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
7-49 ft
Sand
STRUCTURE
Flat
Mid

Sidney Spit is a mid-exposure sand flat off Sidney, British Columbia, within DFO subarea 19-5, where the bottom runs from about 5 to 50 feet. The flat holds Chinook Salmon through their June to August peak and Coho Salmon from May into September, alongside Chum salmon, resident Pacific Herring, and Flounder or Sole working the sand. Chinook respond to downrigger trolling with anchovy in a teaser head, trolling spoons, or flashers, while Coho come to trolled spoons, hootchies, and cut-plug herring across the shallower edges. Chum favor trolling with green flashers and green hoochies, and both salmon can be worked with metal jigs when fish stack over structure. Dungeness Crab share the same sand bottom and take crab traps or ring nets baited with herring, clams, or fish carcasses.

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