Fishing Calendar & Limits

FISHING CALENDAR

• Chinook average 15 to 25 lbs.
• Halibut average 20-80 lbs.
• Fishing is good in-shore as well as off-shore.

• Fishing offshore continues to be great with Chinook averaging 20 to 30 lbs. and some reaching into 40-pound range.
• Coho and pinks runs continue building and by mid July there should be plenty of trophy sized in the mix.
• Halibut continues to be great all month.

• The season's largest Chinook are caught in August ranging from 25 pound to 60 lbs.
• The large Northern coho move into the area.
• Halibut continues to be great all month.

• Large Chinooks can still be caught in September.
• The Northern coho are still around.
• Halibut continues to be great all month.
• Coho start heading into the local rivers of Kyuquot Sound.

October 

• River Fishing is at its best.
• Coho are in all of the rivers.
• Chum salmon are in the estuaries, and lower reaches of the rivers.
• Chinook are holding in deep pools.

November 

• Coho beginning to fade.
• Steelhead Pick-up.

December  

• Steelhead is good to excellent.

January

• Steelhead is good to excellent.

February

• Steelhead is good to excellent.

March

• Steelhead is good to excellent.

April

• Steelhead fishing ends.
• Traditional Start of Spring Salmon Season.

May

• Chinook average 15 to 25 lbs.
• Halibut average 20-80 lbs.
• Fishing is good in-shore as well as off-shore.

KYUQUOT SOUND FISHING LIMITS

2 Chinook per day
- 4 in possession

2 hatchery coho per day
- 4 in possession

1 Halibut per day
- 2 in possession

3 Lingcod per day
- 6 in possession

After September 1st

2 Chinook per day
- 4 in possession

4 hatchery coho per day
- 8 in possession

1 Halibut per day
- 2 in possession

3 Lingcod
- 6 in possession