Pachena Point
48.72°N · 125.11°W
Now 19 · 11 PM PDT
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Current regulations
In effect nowWhat you can keep at this spot today
- Daily limit
- 1 per day
- Possession
- Not published
- Size
- Maximum 112 cm
- Gear
- angling, spear fishing while diving
- Annual quota
- 10 per year
- Other
- Possession limit equals daily limit (not twice). Annual limit 10 halibut Apr 1 2026 to Mar 31 2027. Max size 112 cm head-on (85 cm pectoral/head-off). Must record all retained halibut on licence. Non-residents must obtain licence in-person from a licence vendor in Canada for Areas 121, 23 and 123.
Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 123-1 · synced 3 days ago
Seasonality
52-week view · today highlightedWhen Halibut is best at this spot
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Pachena Point is an outer-exposed rocky drop-off off Bamfield, British Columbia, where the bottom falls from roughly 70 to 240 feet. The structure holds Pacific Halibut, which peak from March through August, alongside Chinook Salmon from May through August and Coho Salmon from May through September. Anglers work the deeper edges of the drop-off for halibut with drift jigging, using leadhead jigs with soft plastics, metal jigs, or salmon belly, and back that up with bottom bait fishing on whole herring, salmon heads, octopus, or squid. Chinook hold to trolling with anchovy, herring, flashers, and hootchies, with mooching cut-plug herring a productive alternative along the same contours. Coho respond to trolling spoons and hootchies, and bucktailing flies works over the exposed surface water as the fish move through.
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