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Best pacific coho salmon lakes in British Columbia

13 British Columbia waters list pacific coho salmon (official records or labelled estimates), 13 mapped with survey or official-chart depth data. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality, leading with the waters in our reviewed search catalog — open any water to see exactly where to fish it: depth contours, scored spots with plain-English reasons, seasonal windows and bait picks. A mobile Pacific salmon that often tracks herring and sand lance higher in the water column along current seams and shoreline points.

1. Skidegate Inlet — 364 ft · Survey depth data · 99% measured · real survey depth contours · Pink Salmon, Chum Salmon, Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #1: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
2. Masset Sound — 114 ft · Survey depth data · 94% measured · real survey depth contours · Pink Salmon, Chum Salmon, Pacific Coho Salmon, Pacific HalibutWhy #2: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
3. Nanaimo Harbour — 148 ft · Survey depth data · 100% measured · real survey depth contours · Cutthroat Trout, Chum Salmon, Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #3: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
4. Port San Juan — 86 ft · Survey depth data · 91% measured · real survey depth contours · Chum Salmon, Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho Salmon, LingcodWhy #4: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
5. Secret Cove — 62 ft · Survey depth data · 81% measured · real survey depth contours · Surfperch, Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho Salmon, LingcodWhy #5: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
6. Brentwood Bay and Tod Inlet — 254 ft · Survey depth data · 92% measured · real survey depth contours · Pink Salmon, Chum Salmon, Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #6: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site, 1 carry-in or shore-oriented
7. Maple Bay — 222 ft · Survey depth data · 99% measured · real survey depth contours · Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #7: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
8. Grace Harbour — 129 ft · Survey depth data · 80% measured · real survey depth contours · Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho Salmon, Pacific Halibut, LingcodWhy #8: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
9. Roscoe Bay — 162 ft · Survey depth data · 100% measured · real survey depth contours · Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho Salmon, Pacific Halibut, LingcodWhy #9: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
10. Bedwell Harbour Head — 74 ft · Survey depth data · 99% measured · real survey depth contours · Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #10: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
11. Port Browning Head — 28 ft · Survey depth data · 100% measured · real survey depth contours · Surfperch, Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #11: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site, 1 carry-in or shore-oriented
12. Deep Bay Harbour — 75 ft · Survey depth data · 96% measured · real survey depth contours · Surfperch, Pink Salmon, Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #12: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
13. Degnen Bay — 25 ft · Survey depth data · 100% measured · real survey depth contours · Surfperch, Pink Salmon, Chum Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #13: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site

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When to fish pacific coho salmon in British Columbia

• Spring 10–70 ft — Use bait, birds or sonar to confirm fish and check the current local marine-area opening; a calendar profile never establishes a legal season.
• Summer 10–100 ft — Search the outside of confirmed bait and measured current breaks; verify current local marine-area and emergency rules before targeting or retaining coho.
• Fall 5–60 ft — Treat freshwater approaches as travel context, avoid concentrated staging fish and obey current terminal-area and stream-mouth closures.
• Winter 30–100 ft — Winter coho are scattered; rely on current WDFW/DFO reporting and a confirmed legal fishery rather than this broad habitat pattern.

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