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Bowen Island (Queen Charlotte Channel)

49.40°N · 123.30°W

BoatPFMA 28-2Coho Salmon · Open

Bowen Island (Queen Charlotte Channel) Fishing Forecast

Updated today

What's biting now around Vancouver: Coho

Coho fishing at Bowen Island (Queen Charlotte Channel) looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 7 PM, with the tide flooding.

ReelCaster scores every hour at Bowen Island (Queen Charlotte Channel) from 0 to 100, reading the tide, current, wind and weather for Coho. 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 · 9 AM
85/100
GOOD

Now 20 · 3 AM PDT

BEST WINDOW
8 AM-7 PM
Tide flooding
DFO · PFMA 28-2 · Coho Salmon openRegulations ↗2 per day · min 30 cm · barbless hook and line
Recent reports
Updated 7 weeks ago

Chinook Salmon and Coho Salmon in the latest reports from this spot

14-Day Forecast
Data from: ECMWF + GFS + BlueCaster
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24-Hour Conditions

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Conditions
Time
3 AM
Now
Score
20
Tough
Tide
6.3 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
—
Ebb
Wind
4 kn
W · steady
Sea state
Flat
0.0 m chop
Air temp
9°
Cold
Weather
Clear
0% cloud
Hour 3 AM. Score 20 Tough. Tide 6.3ft Falling ▼. Current -1.0kn Ebb. Wind 4kn W G4. Sea 0.0 m chop Flat. Air 9.4°.
Why this score
Light
Low sun
Prime
Current
Slack
Tough

Current regulations

In effect now

What you can keep at this spot today

Coho Salmon
Retention open
Daily limit
2 per day
Possession
4 in possession
Size
Minimum 30 cm
Gear
barbless hook and line
Annual quota
Not published
Other
Daily limit: 2 Combined Total * Consisting of no more than: 2 - Hatchery - marked 0 - Wild - unmarked. DFO closes Whytecliff Park (part of 28-2) year round. Check DFO's map.
Other species here
Bocaccio Rockfish Catch & releaseCanary Rockfish Catch & releaseYelloweye Rockfish Catch & releaseLingcod ClosedChinook Salmon Retention openRockfish (Aggregate) Closed
Always check with DFO ↗

Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 28-2 · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Coho Salmon is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
60-300 ft
Rock
STRUCTURE
Drop Off
Mid

Bowen Island sits in Queen Charlotte Channel just northwest of Vancouver, a rocky drop-off in DFO subarea 28-1 where the bottom falls through 80 to 300 feet. Lingcod hold on the structure through the winter and early spring peak from November to April, while rockfish stay catchable across the full calendar year. Chinook push through the channel from June to August and coho follow from June into September, both worked along the shelf edges on downrigger trolling with anchovy in teaser heads, hootchies, trolling spoons, and flashers. Jigging the rock with leadhead jigs and soft plastics, metal jigs, and swimbaits produces lingcod and rockfish along the deeper breaks, and live bait drifting with greenling or pile perch targets larger lingcod during the winter window. Tidal current sweeping through the channel concentrates bait against the drop, making tide changes the productive windows for salmon mooching cut plug herring higher in the water column.

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