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The QA Buoy

49.28°N · 123.32°W

BoatPFMA 29-3Coho Salmon · Open

The QA Buoy Fishing Forecast

Updated today

What's biting now around Vancouver: Coho

Coho fishing at The QA 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 QA 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.

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Best score for the day · 8 AM
85/100
GOOD

Now 73 · 6 PM 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
14-Day Forecast
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24-Hour Conditions

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Conditions
Time
6 PM
Now
Score
73
Fair
Tide
11.5 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
—
Ebb
Wind
11 kn
WNW · steady
Sea state
Flat
0.1 m chop
Air temp
12°
Mild
Weather
Overcast
100% cloud
Hour 6 PM. Score 73 Fair. Tide 11.5ft Falling ▼. Current -0.5kn Ebb. Wind 11kn WNW G14. Sea 0.1 m chop Flat. Air 12.4°.
Why this score
Light
Golden hour
Prime
Current
0.3 kn light
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
Chinook Salmon Retention openBocaccio Rockfish Catch & releaseCanary Rockfish Catch & releaseYelloweye Rockfish Catch & releaseSockeye salmon Catch & releasePink salmon Retention open
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Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 29-3 · synced today

Seasonality

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When Coho Salmon is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
150-450 ft
Sand
STRUCTURE
Mixed
Mid

The QA Buoy sits off Vancouver in DFO subarea 29-3, marking a mid-exposure patch of sand bottom that runs from 10 to 50 feet. Chinook Salmon are the primary draw here, with the run peaking from June through August. Downrigger trolling dominates the approach, with anchovy in a teaser head, hootchies, trolling spoons, and flashers worked along the depth contour to find fish holding on the sand flat. Mooching cut plug or whole herring produces when Chinook stack tighter to structure, and jigging metal jigs or soft plastic swimbaits covers the water column when the bite turns vertical. The mixed bottom and moderate depth range let anglers adjust presentation quickly as tide and light shift through the day.

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