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Best pacific coho salmon lakes in British Columbia
12 British Columbia waters hold pacific coho salmon, 12 mapped with real state-agency depth surveys. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality — 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.
- Skidegate Inlet — 364 ft max · survey depth data · 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
- Nanaimo Harbour — 148 ft max · survey depth data · Cutthroat Trout, Chum Salmon, Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #2: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
- Port San Juan — 86 ft max · survey depth data · Chum Salmon, Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #3: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
- Secret Cove — 62 ft max · survey depth data · Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #4: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
- Brentwood Bay and Tod Inlet — 254 ft max · survey depth data · Pink Salmon, Chum Salmon, Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #5: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site, 1 carry-in or shore-oriented
- Maple Bay — 222 ft max · survey depth data · Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #6: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
- Grace Harbour — 129 ft max · survey depth data · Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #7: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
- Roscoe Bay — 162 ft max · survey depth data · Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #8: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
- Bedwell Harbour Head — 74 ft max · survey depth data · Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #9: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
- Port Browning Head — 28 ft max · survey depth data · Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #10: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site, 1 carry-in or shore-oriented
- Deep Bay Harbour — 75 ft max · survey depth data · Pink Salmon, Pacific Chinook Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #11: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
- Degnen Bay — 25 ft max · survey depth data · Pink Salmon, Chum Salmon, Pacific Coho SalmonWhy #12: survey-backed contours receive the ranking's data-quality boost · 1 public access site
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How to use this ranking
The order is a map-planning ranking, not a claim about today's fish population. It favors larger mapped waters and gives survey-backed contours a three-times data-quality boost. Agency population surveys, current regulations, access and recent conditions should make the final decision.
Compare maximum depth across 37,233 lake records · See British Columbia waters with public access data
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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