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BoatPFMA 28-2Coho Salmon · Open

Passage Island

49.34°N · 123.30°W

BoatPFMA 28-2Coho Salmon · Open

Passage Island Fishing Forecast

Updated today

What's biting now around Vancouver: Coho

Coho fishing at Passage Island looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 7 PM, with the tide flooding.

ReelCaster scores every hour at Passage Island 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 81 · 5 PM 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
14-Day Forecast
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24-Hour Conditions

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Conditions
Time
5 PM
Now
Score
81
Good
Tide
12.1 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
—
Ebb
Wind
6 kn
WNW · steady
Sea state
Flat
0.0 m
Air temp
13°
Mild
Weather
Overcast
100% cloud
Hour 5 PM. Score 81 Good. Tide 12.1ft Falling ▼. Current -0.6kn Ebb. Wind 6kn WNW G9. Sea 0.0 m Flat. Air 13.4°.
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.
Other species here
Bocaccio Rockfish Catch & releaseCanary Rockfish Catch & releaseYelloweye Rockfish Catch & releaseLingcod ClosedChinook Salmon Retention openRockfish (Aggregate) Closed
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Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 28-2 · synced today

Seasonality

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When Coho Salmon is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
60-250 ft
Rock
STRUCTURE
Drop Off
Outer Exposed

Passage Island sits at the western entrance to Howe Sound off West Vancouver, a rocky outer-exposed drop-off within DFO subarea 28-2 where the bottom falls from 40 to 200 feet. Chinook Salmon hold through the June to August peak, Coho Salmon push through from June into September, and Rockfish are available across the full calendar year. The steep rock structure and tidal current sweeping past the island concentrate baitfish along the edges, and downrigger trolling with anchovy in teaser heads, hootchies, or trolling spoons behind flashers covers the salmon window efficiently. Mooching cut plug herring works the same contours when Chinook hold deep against the wall. For Rockfish, jigging leadhead jigs with soft plastics or metal jigs down the face of the drop-off targets fish tight to the structure.

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