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The Bell Buoy

49.29°N · 123.27°W

BoatPFMA 29-3Coho Salmon · Open

The Bell Buoy Fishing Forecast

Updated today

What's biting now around Vancouver: Coho

Coho fishing at The Bell Buoy looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 2 PM, with the tide flooding.

ReelCaster scores every hour at The Bell Buoy 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.

Species
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Best score for the day · 8 AM
82/100
GOOD

Now 19 · 4 AM PDT

BEST WINDOW
8 AM-2 PM
Tide flooding
DFO · PFMA 29-3 · Coho Salmon openRegulations ↗2 per day · min 30 cm · barbless hook and line
Recent reports
Updated 6 weeks ago

Chinook Salmon and Coho Salmon in the latest reports from this spot

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

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Conditions
Time
4 AM
Now
Score
19
Tough
Tide
5.4 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
—
Ebb
Wind
10 kn
WNW · steady
Sea state
Flat
0.1 m
Air temp
13°
Mild
Weather
Clear
0% cloud
Hour 4 AM. Score 19 Tough. Tide 5.4ft Falling ▼. Current -0.6kn Ebb. Wind 10kn WNW G11. Sea 0.1 m Flat. Air 12.5°.
Why this score
Light
Golden hour
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
Cod Retention openBocaccio Rockfish Catch & releaseCanary Rockfish Catch & releaseYelloweye Rockfish Catch & releaseLingcod ClosedPink salmon Retention openChinook Salmon Retention open
Always check with DFO ↗

Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 29-3 · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Coho Salmon is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
50-200 ft
Sand
STRUCTURE
Flat
Outer Exposed

The Bell Buoy sits off Vancouver in DFO subarea 28-7, marking an outer-exposed sand flat that drops through 80 to 180 feet. The spot holds Chinook Salmon through their June to August peak and Coho Salmon from June into September, both drawn to the bait that stacks along the open bottom. Downrigger trolling dominates here, with anchovy in a teaser head, hootchies, and trolling spoons run behind flashers at depth for Chinook, and smaller spoons or hootchies worked higher in the column for Coho. When fish suspend or hold tight to structure, mooching cut plug or whole herring and jigging metal jigs or soft plastic swimbaits cover the deeper end of the range. Bucktail flies and small casting spoons take Coho when they push near the surface on the exposed edge.

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