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Tunstall Bay (Bowen Island)

49.35°N · 123.42°W

BoatPFMA 28-1Coho Salmon · Open

Tunstall Bay (Bowen Island) Fishing Forecast

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What's biting now around Vancouver: Coho

Coho fishing at Tunstall Bay (Bowen Island) looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 7 PM, with the tide flooding.

ReelCaster scores every hour at Tunstall Bay (Bowen 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 · 10 AM
83/100
GOOD

Now 21 · 12 AM PDT

BEST WINDOW
8 AM-7 PM
Tide flooding
DFO · PFMA 28-1 · Coho Salmon openRegulations ↗2 per day · min 30 cm · barbless hook and line
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24-Hour Conditions

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Conditions
Time
12 AM
Now
Score
21
Tough
Tide
9.9 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
—
Ebb
Wind
6 kn
W · steady
Sea state
Flat
0.0 m chop
Air temp
9°
Cold
Weather
Clear
0% cloud
Hour 12 AM. Score 21 Tough. Tide 9.9ft Falling ▼. Current -0.5kn Ebb. Wind 6kn W G8. Sea 0.0 m chop Flat. Air 9.2°.
Why this score
Light
Low sun
Prime
Current
Slack
Tough

Current regulations

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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
Wolf Eel Catch & releaseBocaccio Rockfish Catch & releaseCanary Rockfish Catch & releaseYelloweye Rockfish Catch & releaseGiant Pacific Octopus Retention openLingcod ClosedChinook Salmon Retention openRockfish (Aggregate) Closed
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Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 28-1 · synced today

Seasonality

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When Coho Salmon is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
40-180 ft
Rock
STRUCTURE
Drop Off
Inner Protected

Tunstall Bay sits on the southwest shore of Bowen Island in DFO subarea 28-1, an inner-protected pocket where a rocky drop-off falls from the shoreline into 40 to 180 feet of water. Chinook Salmon move through from June to August, followed closely by Coho Salmon which hold from June into September, while Rockfish stay resident on the structure year-round. Downrigger trolling with anchovy in teaser heads, hootchies, or trolling spoons behind flashers covers the salmon along the drop-off edge, with mooching cut plug herring a productive alternative when Chinook stack deeper on the rock. For Coho working closer to the surface, bucktail flies and small casting spoons draw strikes over the same contour. Rockfish come to leadhead jigs with soft plastics and metal jigs worked tight to the bottom in the deeper end of the range.

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