Sturgeon Bank
49.15°N · 123.28°W
Sturgeon Bank Fishing Forecast
Updated today
Dungeness Crab fishing at Sturgeon Bank looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 7 PM, with the tide flooding.
ReelCaster scores every hour at Sturgeon Bank from 0 to 100, reading the tide, current, wind and weather for Dungeness Crab. The higher the score, the better your odds. Green means go.
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Start free trialEvery spot is scored for today, out of 100. Green is worth the trip, amber is fair, red is slow.
Now 82 · 4 PM PDT
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Current regulations
In effect nowWhat you can keep at this spot today
- Daily limit
- 4 per day
- Possession
- 8 in possession
- Size
- Minimum 16.5 cm
- Gear
- dip net, hand picking, hand picking while diving, ring net, trap
- Annual quota
- Not published
Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 29-10 · synced today
Seasonality
52-week view · today highlightedWhen Dungeness Crab is best at this spot
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Sturgeon Bank is a broad sand flat off Vancouver's Fraser River delta, sitting inside protected inner waters within DFO subarea 29-10. The bank runs shallow, roughly 5 to 50 feet, and its soft bottom holds Dungeness Crab through the summer peak from June to September. Chinook Salmon move across the edges from June to August, followed by Coho Salmon that stay active into September. Crabbers work baited traps with salmon heads, herring, or fish carcasses set on the flat, while salmon anglers cover water with downrigger trolling using anchovy in teaser heads, hootchies, flashers, and trolling spoons. Mooching cut plug herring and casting metal jigs or small spoons also produce when fish stack near the drop-offs on tide changes.
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