PFMA 29-3Chinook Salmon · Open

Cowan Point

49.33°N · 123.35°W

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Best score for the day · 6 AM
85/100
GOOD

Now 23 · 9 PM PDT

BEST WINDOW
6 AM-9 AM
Tide flooding
DFO · PFMA 29-3 · Chinook Salmon openRegulations ↗2 per day · min 62 cm · barbless hook and line
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Coho and Chinook both showing at…

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Conditions
Time
9 PM
Now
Score
23
Tough
Tide
14.5 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
Ebb
Wind
13 kn
SE · steady
Sea state
Rippled
0.3 m
Air temp
17°
Mild
Weather
Clear
15% cloud
Hour 9 PM. Score 23 Tough. Tide 14.5ft Falling ▼. Current -0.3kn Slack. Wind 13kn SE G19. Sea 0.3m Rippled. Air 17.4°.
Why this score
Light
Sunrise
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
2 in possession
Size
Minimum 62 cm
Gear
barbless hook and line
Annual quota
Not published
Other
Mouth of the Fraser River Salmon Closure (portion of Subarea 29-3). Aug 1 to Sep 30.
Season
Aug 1 to Sep 30
Other species here
Sablefish Retention openBocaccio Rockfish Catch & releaseCoho Salmon Retention openCanary Rockfish Catch & releaseYelloweye Rockfish Catch & releaseRockfish (Aggregate) ClosedLingcod ClosedHalibut Closed
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Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 29-3 · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Chinook Salmon is best at this spot

Peak seasonCurrently in peak season for Chinook Salmon
~1 more week at peak
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Peak seasonShoulder seasonOff seasonRelease onlyClosed
SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
60-200 ft
Mixed
LAUNCH
Not mapped
PEAK
Peak now
STRUCTURE
Bay
Inner Protected

Cowan Point sits on the southeastern shore of Bowen Island within DFO subarea 29-3, an inner-protected bay with mixed bottom fishing from about 15 to 100 feet. The point holds Chinook Salmon through their June to August peak and Coho Salmon from June into September, with both species using the tide lines that form off the structure. Downrigger trolling drives most of the effort here, running anchovy in teaser heads, hootchies, and trolling spoons behind flashers along the depth contour. When bait stacks tight to the bottom, mooching cut plug or whole herring and jigging metal jigs or soft plastic swimbaits over the mixed substrate produce Chinook, while bucktail flies and small casting spoons worked on the surface take Coho pushing through in late summer.

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