PFMA 23-7Halibut · Open

Meares Bluff

48.86°N · 125.28°W

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Best score for the day · 7 AM
87/100
GOOD

Now 19 · 11 PM PDT

BEST WINDOW
6 AM-2 PM
Tide ebbing
DFO · PFMA 23-7 · Halibut openRegulations ↗1 per day · max 112 cm · angling, spear fishing while diving
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Chinook and coho both landing at…

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Conditions
Time
11 PM
Now
Score
19
Tough
Tide
2.5 ft ▲
Flooding
Current
Flood
Wind
15 kn
S · gusty
Sea state
Rough
1.3 m
Air temp
13°
Mild
Weather
Overcast
100% cloud
Hour 11 PM. Score 19 Tough. Tide 2.5ft Rising ▲. Current -0.0kn Slack. Wind 15kn S G25. Sea 1.3m Rough. Air 13.1°.
Why this score
Current
Slack
Prime

Current regulations

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What you can keep at this spot today

Halibut
Retention open
Daily limit
1 per day
Possession
Not published
Size
Maximum 112 cm
Gear
angling, spear fishing while diving
Annual quota
10 per year
Other
Areas 23 and 123. Coastwide annual limit 10 (Apr 1 2026–Mar 31 2027). Max 112 cm head-on. Possession limit equals daily limit. Spear fishing while diving closed in Pacific Rim National Park. Non-residents must obtain in-person licence for Areas 121, 23, 123.
Other species here
Lingcod Retention openChinook Salmon Retention openRockfish (Aggregate) Retention openCoho Salmon Retention open
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Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 23-7 · synced 4 days ago

Seasonality

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When Halibut is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
40-130 ft
Rock
LAUNCH
Not mapped
PEAK
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STRUCTURE
Drop Off
Outer Exposed

Meares Bluff is an outer-exposed rocky drop-off near Bamfield, British Columbia, where the bottom falls from about 60 to 180 feet along a hard rock edge. Lingcod hold on this structure and peak from February through April and again from July through September, taken by jigging with metal jigs, swimbaits, and leadhead jigs, or with live bait such as greenling and herring worked close to the rock. Chinook Salmon move through from May to August and respond to trolling with anchovy, herring, flashers, and hootchies, while mooching cut-plug herring covers the same window. Coho Salmon run May through September and take trolled spoons, hootchies, and cut-plug herring along the exposed edge. The drop-off concentrates fish where the depth breaks, so working the transition zone from the shallow lip down to the deeper rock keeps baits in productive water.

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