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Gossip Shoals Hump

48.89°N · 123.28°W

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Best score for the day · 10 AM
85/100
GOOD

Now 81 · 1 PM PDT

BEST WINDOW
7 AM-8 PM
Tide ebbing
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Conditions
Time
1 PM
Now
Score
81
Good
Tide
5.9 ft ▲
Flooding
Current
—
Flood
Wind
7 kn
S · steady
Sea state
Easy
0.2 m chop
Air temp
18°
Warm
Weather
Overcast
100% cloud
Hour 1 PM. Score 81 Good. Tide 5.9ft Rising ▲. Current +0.7kn Flood. Wind 7kn S G10. Sea 0.2 m chop Easy. Air 18.0°.
Why this score
Current
0.5 kn light
Prime

Current regulations

In effect now

What you can keep at this spot today

Halibut
Retention open
Daily limit
2 per day
Possession
2 in possession
Size
Maximum 112 cm
Gear
angling, spear fishing while diving
Annual quota
10 per year
Other species here
Rougheye Rockfish Retention openLingcod Retention openChinook Salmon Retention openShortraker Rockfish Retention openCod Retention openCoho Salmon Retention open
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Source: DFO/MPO · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Halibut is best at this spot

Shoulder seasonShoulder season for Halibut
~2 more weeks in shoulder
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Peak seasonShoulder seasonOff season
SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
60-180 ft
Rock
LAUNCH
Boat launch near Mayne
6.0 km away
PEAK
Shoulder
STRUCTURE
Pinnacle
Mid
BOAT LAUNCHES NEARBY

Distances are in a straight line, not by water.

Gossip Shoals Hump is a rocky pinnacle in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia, rising through mid-exposure water with depths running from 60 to 180 feet. The structure holds Lingcod, which peak from February through April, alongside Pacific Halibut through the longer March-to-August window and a mix of rockfish and Pacific Cod over the harder bottom. Chinook Salmon move through from May to August and Coho follow from June into October, giving the spot a working season that shifts from bottomfish to salmon as the year progresses. Lingcod come to jigging with metal jigs, swimbaits, and leadhead jigs worked close to the rock, while halibut respond to drift jigging with metal jigs, herring, or leadhead jigs dressed with soft plastics across the deeper edges. Salmon are taken by trolling anchovy, herring, spoons, and hootchies over and around the pinnacle, with mooching cut-plug herring a reliable follow-up when fish stack near the structure.

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