Sandford Island / Coaster Channel
48.87°N · 125.18°W
Now 19 · 11 PM PDT
Sandford Island fishing well, chinook…
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Current regulations
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- 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.
Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 23-7 · synced 4 days ago
Seasonality
52-week view · today highlightedWhen Halibut is best at this spot
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Sandford Island's Coaster Channel is a rocky drop-off near Bamfield, British Columbia, where the bottom falls away through mid-exposure water from about 40 to 180 feet. The channel holds Chinook Salmon at their peak from May through August and Coho Salmon from May into September, with Rockfish concentrated over the rock structure from May through September. Trolling anchovy, herring, flashers, and hootchies works the salmon through the water column, while mooching cut-plug herring covers the shallower edges of the drop-off. Coho respond to trolling spoons and hootchies along the same lines, and bucktailing takes fish near the surface. For Rockfish, jigging metal and leadhead jigs or soft plastic swimbaits down along the rock produces over the deeper portions of the drop-off.
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