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PFMA 28-2Coho Salmon · Open

Bowen Island (Queen Charlotte Channel)

49.40°N · 123.30°W

Best score for the day · 8 AM
85/100
GOOD

Now 24 · 9 PM PDT

BEST WINDOW
6 AM-10 AM
Tide flooding
DFO · PFMA 28-2 · Coho Salmon openRegulations ↗2 per day · min 30 cm · barbless hook and line
Recent reports
Updated 4 days ago

Coho and chinook showing off Bowen…

14-Day Forecast
Data from: ECMWF + GFS + BlueCaster

24-Hour Conditions

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Conditions
Time
9 PM
Now
Score
24
Tough
Tide
14.5 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
—
Ebb
Wind
9 kn
SSE · gusty
Sea state
Rippled
0.2 m
Air temp
18°
Warm
Weather
Partly cloudy
67% cloud
Hour 9 PM. Score 24 Tough. Tide 14.5ft Falling ▼. Current -0.3kn Slack. Wind 9kn SSE G19. Sea 0.2m Rippled. Air 18.2°.
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
Not published
Size
Minimum 30 cm
Gear
barbless hook and line
Annual quota
Not published
Other
2 Combined Total daily limit. Consisting of no more than: 2 Hatchery marked, 0 Wild unmarked.
Other species here
Bocaccio Rockfish Catch & releaseCanary Rockfish Catch & releaseYelloweye Rockfish Catch & releaseLingcod ClosedHalibut Retention openRockfish (Aggregate) ClosedChinook Salmon ClosedSablefish Retention open
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Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 28-2 · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Coho Salmon is best at this spot

Peak seasonCurrently in peak season for Coho Salmon
~5 more weeks at peak
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Peak seasonShoulder seasonOff season
SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
60-300 ft
Rock
LAUNCH
Not mapped
PEAK
Peak now
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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