Live conditions
Fraser River (at Hope)Conditions & Fishing Report
Water level
6.04 m
Discharge
4260.0 m³/s
Reading: Jul 13, 2026, 4:10 p.m. PT
7-day trend (level, m)
What to fish right now on the Fraser River (at Hope)
Current condition: Green & dropping · prime — based on the live reading above.
About the Fraser River (at Hope)
The Fraser at Hope is the mainstem gateway for every salmon run heading into the Fraser Valley's tributaries, and it carries the province's most famous sockeye migration — the Fraser system's sockeye runs are world-famous, built around a handful of huge cyclical dominant years. Chinook move through broadly April through November with spring, summer and fall components depending on the stock, and DFO in-season notices should always be checked before targeting chinook here — limits are frequently the tightest of any species, sometimes with mandatory length recording. Coho, pink (odd years) and chum follow through late summer and fall on their way to natal tributaries like the Vedder, Harrison and dozens of smaller systems. The mainstem itself is big, often glacially turbid water — most anglers use it as a travel corridor and staging area rather than a primary bead-fishing target, working the clearer tributary mouths and back-eddies near Hope, Agassiz and the Highway 1 corridor rather than the open channel. Because it's the largest system on this list by a wide margin, its level and discharge move slowly and are a useful leading indicator for how the smaller tributary rivers nearby will behave over the following days.
Data: Environment and Climate Change Canada, station 08MF005 (Fraser River at Hope). Licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
