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Biting
Fish in 1 of 1 report · Mostly Chinook salmon
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Anglers have logged 1 fishing report here. Most commonly caught: Chinook salmon. Peak season: August.
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Sea Queen Charlotte Strait (British Columbia) — one of the area's fishing spots. About 853.5 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 moderately indented: bays and points alternate with even stretches. There are many islands: the water is broken up by drop-offs and the channels between them. The largest water around: all 6 neighbours are smaller.
The longest fetch is 48 km along the west — east axis: wind along it builds a wave on the open water and pushes silt and food towards the lee bank.
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.
Queen Charlotte Strait — 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 19:00–20:00.
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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| -0.5 m | -0.9 m | -1.1 m | -1.1 m | -0.8 m | -0.4 m | -0.0 m | 0.4 m | 0.8 m | 1.0 m | 1.0 m | 0.7 m | 0.4 m | 0.1 m | -0.2 m | -0.3 m | -0.2 m | 0.1 m | 0.4 m | 0.7 m | 1.0 m | 1.1 m | 0.9 m | 0.5 m |
Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 2.5 km away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 2.5 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 fieldunsettled, Kp 4
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.
Queen Charlotte Strait — 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 19:00–20:00.
British Columbia: the months when each species peaks and when it goes quiet. The current month is outlined.
| 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 |
Biting
Fish in 1 of 1 report · Mostly Chinook salmon
Anglers have logged 1 fishing report here. Most commonly caught: Chinook salmon. Peak season: August.