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BoatPFMA 29-4Chinook Salmon · Open

Sandheads

49.10°N · 123.31°W

BoatPFMA 29-4Chinook Salmon · Open

Sandheads Fishing Forecast

Updated today

What's biting now at Sandheads: Chinook

Chinook fishing at Sandheads looks good today.
The best time to go is 2 PM to 7 PM, with the tide ebbing.

ReelCaster scores every hour at Sandheads 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 · 3 PM
77/100
GOOD

Now 76 · 10 AM PDT

BEST WINDOW
2 PM-7 PM
Tide ebbing
DFO · PFMA 29-4 · Chinook Salmon openRegulations ↗2 per day · min 62 cm · barbless hook and line
Recent reports
Updated 4 days ago

Chinook, coho, and chum at Sandheads this October

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

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Conditions
Time
10 AM
Now
Score
76
Good
Tide
6.6 ft ▲
Flooding
Current
—
Flood
Wind
10 kn
NW · steady
Sea state
Flat
0.1 m
Air temp
12°
Mild
Weather
Overcast
100% cloud
Hour 10 AM. Score 76 Good. Tide 6.6ft Rising ▲. Current +1.0kn Flood. Wind 10kn NW G12. Sea 0.1 m Flat. Air 11.9°.
Why this score
Light
Low sun
Fair
Current
0.9 kn
Prime

Current regulations

In effect now

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
Bocaccio Rockfish Catch & releaseCanary Rockfish Catch & releaseYelloweye Rockfish Catch & releaseSockeye salmon Catch & releaseChum salmon Retention openRockfish (Aggregate) ClosedLingcod ClosedCoho Salmon Retention openPink salmon Retention open
Always check with DFO ↗

Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 29-4 · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Chinook Salmon is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
26-82 ft
Sand
STRUCTURE
Flat
Outer Exposed

Sandheads is an outer-exposed sand flat at the mouth of the Fraser River in DFO subarea 29-4, off Vancouver, where depths run 25 to 80 feet across broad, current-swept bottom. The spot draws Chinook Salmon from June through August and Coho Salmon from June through September. Downrigger trolling with anchovy in teaser heads, hootchies, and flashers covers the salmon effectively along the shallower edges, while mooching cut plug herring works through the tide changes that concentrate bait on the flat. Tide flow off the river mouth is the defining feature here, stacking bait and dictating when each species feeds.

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