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BoatPFMA 29-3Chinook Salmon · Open

Whale Channel

49.29°N · 123.30°W

BoatPFMA 29-3Chinook Salmon · Open

Whale Channel Fishing Forecast

Updated today

What's biting now around Vancouver: Chinook

Chinook fishing at Whale Channel looks good today.
The best time to go is 8 AM to 3 PM, with the tide flooding.

ReelCaster scores every hour at Whale Channel 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.

Best score for the day · 8 AM
84/100
GOOD

Now 76 · 2 PM PDT

BEST WINDOW
8 AM-3 PM
Tide flooding
DFO · PFMA 29-3 · Chinook Salmon openRegulations ↗2 per day · min 62 cm · barbless hook and line
14-Day Forecast
Data from: ECMWF + GFS + BlueCaster
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24-Hour Conditions

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Conditions
Time
2 PM
Now
Score
76
Good
Tide
13.9 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
—
Ebb
Wind
5 kn
W · steady
Sea state
Flat
0.0 m
Air temp
12°
Mild
Weather
Overcast
100% cloud
Hour 2 PM. Score 76 Good. Tide 13.9ft Falling ▼. Current -0.2kn Slack. Wind 5kn W G6. Sea 0.0 m Flat. Air 11.9°.
Why this score
Light
Golden hour
Prime
Current
0.2 kn light
Fair

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 & release
Always check with DFO ↗

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

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Chinook Salmon is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
66-328 ft
Sand
STRUCTURE
Corridor
Mid

Whale Channel is a mid-exposure corridor of sand bottom running through DFO subarea 29-3 off Vancouver, with working depths from 65 to 330 feet. The channel funnels Chinook Salmon through the summer, with the fishery peaking from June through August. Downrigger trolling is the dominant approach here, pulling anchovy in teaser heads, hootchies, or trolling spoons behind flashers along the depth breaks. Anglers working the tide seams also mooch cut plug or whole herring, and vertical jigging with metal jigs or soft plastic swimbaits produces on fish holding deeper in the water column. Tide movement through the corridor concentrates bait, and adjusting downrigger depth to match active feeding zones is central to the presentation.

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