Fraser River at Mission Fishing Report
Updated Fri, Sep 25, 2026 from live weather and water data
The lower Fraser at Mission: white sturgeon catch-and-release and the salmon runs of Canada’s greatest salmon river, with a live gauge.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Level
0.53 m
Air / High
12 °C / 15 °C
Wind
NE 8 km/h
Sources: Water Survey of Canada station 08MH024, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Fraser River at Mission is in its cool-water rhythm: slower presentations and the warmest hours of the day. The gauge reads 0.53 m, easing 0.63 over the week. Today brings cloud cover, wind NE around 8 km/h, steady pressure near 1006 hPa and a high of 15 °C. Water sits around 12 °C for the season (estimated). With the full moon, the solunar majors run 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:25 PM-12:25 AM: the windows to build the day around.
Coho salmon
Excellent
The river run. Float gear with roe or a jig, or cast spinners and spoons in the slower tailouts after a rise in water.
Chinook (spring) salmon
Good
Fish are staging or moving to the rivers. On the coast, the deeper banks and the winter feeders; in Great Lakes rivers, drifted roe and spinners in the deeper runs.
Chum salmon
Fair
The run. Float fish pink and chartreuse jigs, wool or roe through the slower runs and the back eddies.
Tie on: Float and roe · Swung fly through the tailout · Jerkbait, long pauses · Hair jig on the rock. Prime windows: 10:25 AM-12:25 PM, 10:25 PM-12:25 AM, 4:55 AM-5:55 AM. Similar at 15 °C. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
Before you go
British Columbia requires a fishing licence for most fishing, from C$11.43. British Columbia fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing white sturgeon here? Check the size and bag limits with BC Freshwater Fishing before you keep anything; the White sturgeon page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Fraser River at Mission today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (07:00), sunset (19:00), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:25 PM-12:25 AM; minor 4:55 AM-5:55 AM. Full Moon, 99% lit.
Water and weather
Live readings from Water Survey of Canada station 08MH024 (FRASER RIVER AT MISSION).
River level, last 30 days
Water Survey of Canada real-time hydrometric data, station 08MH024. Latest reading 2026-09-25 03:10.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp12 °C
High / Low15 °C / 10 °C
WindNE 8 km/h, gusts 15 km/h
Pressure100.56 kPa, steady
Sky / Rain100% cloud, 100%
Sunrise / Sunset07:00 / 19:00
MoonFull Moon, 99%
Water temp (seasonal)~12 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Fraser River at Mission
The best day on Fraser River at Mission this week looks like Saturday Sep 26, at 4 out of 5, against 3 today. Every day is scored by the same engine as the report above: pressure trend first, then wind, sky and season. Pick a species and the plan for that day changes with it.
Best day this week: Saturday, Sep 26 — good at 4/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, Sep 25 — Fair
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
- Solunar majors
- 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:25 PM-12:25 AM
- Minor period
- 4:55 AM-5:55 AM
- Sun
- 07:00 to 19:00
- Moon
- Full Moon, 99% lit
- Sky and wind
- Rain, 19 km/h
- Rain chance
- 100%
Scores are a planning aid built from forecast data, not a promise.
Species guide
The species that matter on Fraser River at Mission: seasons written for the Canadian year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
White sturgeon
Year-round, catch-and-release only
The giant of the Fraser River: catch-and-release only, with the separate White Sturgeon Conservation Licence and the handling rules in the BC synopsis. Fish must stay in the water. The salmon runs bring the fish: roe and salmon parts in the deep holes.
Chinook (spring) salmon
BC coast: spring to late summer; Great Lakes tributaries: September and October
The biggest Pacific salmon, called spring or king on the BC coast. Feeds along the kelp lines, points and tide rips of the BC coast before running rivers in late summer; introduced to the Great Lakes, where it runs the tributaries in fall. Retention on the BC coast changes by area and by DFO fishery notice. Fish are staging or moving to the rivers. On the coast, the deeper banks and the winter feeders; in Great Lakes rivers, drifted roe and spinners in the deeper runs.
Sockeye salmon
Summer, only when DFO opens a fishery
The Fraser and Skeena salmon, prized and tightly managed. Recreational sockeye fisheries open only by DFO notice in years when the run allows; many years they stay closed. Out of season.
Chum salmon
Fraser Valley and Island rivers: October and November
The late-fall salmon of the lower mainland and the Island, big and hard-fighting. Runs the Vedder, the Harrison and the Stave in numbers some years. Retention depends on the run and the DFO notice. The run. Float fish pink and chartreuse jigs, wool or roe through the slower runs and the back eddies.
Coho salmon
BC coast: July to September; rivers: October and November
Silver, aggressive and surface-oriented. Feeds hard along the BC coast through summer and runs the Fraser Valley and Island rivers in fall, the Vedder and the Stamp among them. Hatchery coho are marked by a clipped adipose fin; what may be kept depends on the water and the DFO notice. The river run. Float gear with roe or a jig, or cast spinners and spoons in the slower tailouts after a rise in water.
When to come: the Fraser River at Mission calendar
Activity by species and month for the Canadian year, and how the water warms and cools. Tap any cell.
Species activity by month
1 = slow, 5 = peak. Current month highlighted. January is midsummer here.
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White sturgeon
Chinook (spring) salmon
Sockeye salmon
Chum salmon
Coho salmon
SlowPeak
Water temperature through the year
Typical surface temperature for this water type in degrees Celsius; today is around 12 °C (estimated, not a reading).
Angler reports
Real reports from real anglers, reviewed before publishing. Nothing here is copied from a shop or a charter. The water log below tracks each day automatically.
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Water log, last days
Auto-logged from live dataThu, Sep 24
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. White sturgeon led the card at excellent. High of 16 °C, wind to 10 km/h.
Wed, Sep 23
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. White sturgeon led the card at excellent. High of 16 °C, wind to 8 km/h.
Tue, Sep 22
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. White sturgeon led the card at excellent. High of 21 °C, wind to 13 km/h.
Before you go
Licence
BC freshwater fishing licence, from C$11.43 for a resident adult, with higher prices for other Canadians and visitors. Details and where to buy →
Regulations
Size and bag limits, closed seasons and protected areas are set by BC Freshwater Fishing and, in salt water and for salmon, by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the British Columbia licence page before you keep anything.
Access
A BC freshwater licence is needed, with the White Sturgeon Conservation Licence for sturgeon, and the non-tidal salmon surcharge for salmon.
About this water
Fraser River at Mission is a river in British Columbia, Canada, covered from the British Columbia reports and listed in all Canada waters.
Fishing Fraser River at Mission: the full guide
The Fraser at Mission
The Fraser River, the biggest salmon river in Canada, runs wide and silty through the Fraser Valley past Mission on its last stretch to the Strait of Georgia, with the tide felt this far upstream. Every salmon of the Fraser system passes Mission, and the river’s white sturgeon, the largest freshwater fish in Canada, live in its channels and back eddies. The Water Survey of Canada gauge at Mission supplies the level and the 30-day chart on this page.
Species and seasons
White sturgeon are fished all year, catch-and-release only, with a separate conservation licence. Salmon run from summer to late fall: chinook, sockeye in the summer and early fall (fished only when DFO opens a fishery), pinks in odd-numbered years, then coho and chum. The rules change during the season by notice.
Where to fish it
Sturgeon are fished from boats anchored in the channels and from the bank in the back eddies. Salmon are taken on the gravel bars upstream toward Chilliwack and Hope, where bar fishing with a spin-n-glo or a bare hook is the local method when it is allowed. Harrison River and the Vedder, which join the Fraser nearby, have their own pages.
Planning a visit
Mission is about an hour east of Vancouver. Guides run sturgeon trips from the valley towns; a guided trip is the simplest way to fish sturgeon properly, with the right gear and handling.
The water through the year
The Fraser’s freshet, fed by snowmelt across the interior, raises the river and turns it brown from May into July; it falls through late summer and runs lower and clearer in fall and winter, which are prime sturgeon months.
Reading this report here
The gauge at Mission shows the freshet and the tide’s influence on the level; a falling river after the freshet is when the bars start to fish. The chart shows the last 30 days. Pressure and sky build the score.
Licence, access and rules
A BC freshwater licence is needed, with the White Sturgeon Conservation Licence for sturgeon, and the non-tidal salmon surcharge for salmon. Sturgeon must be released without being removed from the water, as the synopsis sets out. The rules are linked below.
Common questions
Can I keep a sturgeon from the Fraser?
No. White sturgeon fishing on the Fraser is catch-and-release only, with a separate conservation licence.
When is the Fraser freshet?
From about May into July, when snowmelt raises the river and colours it.
Is sockeye fishing open on the Fraser?
Only when DFO opens a recreational fishery by notice; many years it stays closed.
Is fishing good at Fraser River at Mission right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Nearby waters
Where this page's numbers come from
- Water level and flow readings
- Environment and Climate Change Canada, Water Survey of Canada real-time hydrometric data, station 08MH024 — FRASER RIVER AT MISSION
- Open-Meteo forecast model
- https://open-meteo.com/
- Moon and solunar windows
- Calculated on this site
- The written guide on this page
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Readings refresh on a 30-minute window. The full method, with every figure and its source, is on How our reports are made. Something wrong here? Tell us and it goes in the log with the date.