Fishing reports
5 reportsSummary of all reports
Biting
Fish in 5 of 5 reports · Mostly Chum salmon
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Anglers have logged 5 fishing reports here. Most commonly caught: Chum salmon, Pink salmon. Peak season: September.
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Sea Gunboat Passage (British Columbia) — one of the area's fishing spots. About 12.7 km² in area. Salt water, not fresh — so this page carries its own marine bite forecast. See when the bite is best: hourly fish activity for the days ahead, computed from the weather, pressure, and season.
Other nearby places to fish
Other nearby waters
The shoreline is heavily indented — bays, points and spits. Look for pike at the mouths of the bays and on the drop-offs behind the points. The islands add structure: drop-offs around their perimeter and channels between them and the bank. Larger than 18 of the 19 waters nearby.
The wind builds its wave along the west — east axis — 15 km of open water; along north — south there is only 4 km. When it runs down the main axis, the calm water sits against the bank it blows from, while the wave and the silt go to the far one — and the fish follow them there to feed.
British Columbia: the months when each species peaks and when it goes quiet. The current month is outlined. The bottom row counts the catches logged on this water in each month.
| Fish | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steelhead | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | peak | peak |
| Pacific halibut | fair | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active |
| Lingcod | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | fair |
| Rockfish | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | fair |
| Brown trout | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Chinook salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow |
| Dolly Varden | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Chum salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | fair |
| Coho salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow |
| Sockeye salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow |
| Pink salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow | slow |
| Catches here | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BiteGuideFrom anglers’ reports
This is a summary of anglers' reports, not a proven cause of the bite: conditions lining up does not mean they drove it.
vertical axis — number of catches
| Value | Catches | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Chum salmon | 4 | 80% |
| Pink salmon | 1 | 20% |
Green check: this species was recorded here by GBIF. Species without a check may still occur in the waterbody.
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Gunboat Passage — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is rising — activity tends to be more subdued. Peak 08:00–10:00 and 18:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 3 °C — colder than the 6–17 °C comfort range for Brown trout: the fish conserves energy and takes more cautiously.
Brown trout works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is flat: it moves no more than 1 hPa over the day, so the weather isn't shifting today's bite.
One more input — the moon's feeding windows: within their hours the score sits higher than across the rest of the day. The window times are in the “Solunar feeding periods” card below.
October is an active season for Brown trout here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
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| -0.4 m | -0.8 m | -1.0 m | -1.0 m | -0.8 m | -0.5 m | -0.0 m | 0.4 m | 0.7 m | 0.9 m | 0.9 m | 0.7 m | 0.4 m | 0.1 m | -0.1 m | -0.2 m | -0.2 m | 0.0 m | 0.3 m | 0.7 m | 0.9 m | 0.9 m | 0.8 m | 0.5 m |
Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 10 km away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 10.0 km from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Clear · feels like -1°
The day is 4 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
Geomagnetic fieldG1 geomagnetic storm, Kp 4.7
Kp index — NOAA data. Not part of the bite score: catches show no link between geomagnetic storms and the bite.
The windows are set by the moon's transit and rise, and the forecast above already accounts for them: within these hours the bite score sits higher than across the rest of the day, while the day's overall level still comes from the catch-calibrated model.
What are solunar periods?Green check: this species was recorded here by GBIF. Species without a check may still occur in the waterbody.
Blue check: this species appears as a catch in reports for this waterbody.
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Gunboat Passage — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is rising — activity tends to be more subdued. Peak 08:00–10:00 and 18:00–20:00.
Biting
Fish in 5 of 5 reports · Mostly Chum salmon
Anglers have logged 5 fishing reports here. Most commonly caught: Chum salmon, Pink salmon. Peak season: September.