Fishing in Vancouver
British Columbia · Pacific Maritime · hardiness zone 8a
Now
19°C · Overcast
Today
19° / 13°
Sun
06:47 – 19:27
Moon
Waxing Crescent · solunar good
Flat light spreads fish out and holds them shallow through the middle of the day.
- Bluegillbest now — On the beds and the shallow flats, in water warm enough to see the bottom.
- Largemouth bass — Cruising the weed edges, pads and shallow flats, ambushing anything that moves across the top.
In the water now · September
What's biting
The sport fish active near Vancouver, British Columbia in September — where they hold, how to know one on the line, and the tactic that usually works. Check your licence and the current limits before you go.
FishJul–OctChinook salmon
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Black gums at the base of the teeth, small black spots on both tail lobes, and real size — often over 10 kg.
Where and how to catch it →Photo: Rob Foster · CC BY 4.0
Writing your field guide — reading the forecast, the moon and the map…
Overhead · Vancouver, British Columbia
The sky over the water
The two clocks nothing on the ground can argue with: the length of the day, and the phase of the moon.
The sun
12h 37m of light
Sunrise
06:49
Solar noon
13:07
Sunset
19:26
A month from now the day will be 1h 48m shorter. Enough light for steady growth.
Right now · Vancouver, British Columbia
Forces at work
Nothing here is a guess. Each of these is read from this week's forecast and this location's climate record, and each one is pushing the season one way or the other.
- Worth watching
The moon
Waxing Crescent · 11%
Waxing, 3 days old. Full moon in 11 days. Fishing outlook: good.
It moves water — in the sea, in a lake's edge, and, by long tradition, in the sap of a plant. Fish feed hardest on the days around new and full.
- Worth watching
Wind
7 km/h now · 21 peak
Calm. Good for spraying, for transplanting, and for spotting a rise on flat water — but calm bright days push fish deep.
It pollinates corn and grasses, dries soil, breaks stems — and it decides where the bait, and therefore the fish, end up.
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