Heard Island Hump
50.84°N · 127.49°W
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Current regulations
In effect nowWhat you can keep at this spot today
- Daily limit
- 2 per day
- Possession
- 2 in possession
- Size
- Maximum 112 cm
- Gear
- angling, spear fishing while diving
- Annual quota
- 10 per year
Source: DFO/MPO · synced today
Seasonality
52-week view · today highlightedWhen Halibut is best at this spot
- DirectionsBoat launch near Port Hardy13 km
- DirectionsFort Rupert communal launch16 km · Free
Distances are in a straight line, not by water.
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Heard Island Hump is a rocky pinnacle rising from the outer exposed waters off Port Hardy, British Columbia, with fishable depths running from 150 to 410 feet. The structure holds Pacific Halibut, which peak from March through August, alongside Lingcod peaking May through August and Chinook Salmon over the same late-spring-to-summer window. Rockfish species including Pacific Ocean Perch, Silvergray Rockfish, and Rougheye Rockfish work the rock alongside Sablefish across the deeper contours. Halibut respond to drift fishing with whole herring, salmon bellies, octopus, or squid across the pinnacle's base, while jigging with metal jigs, leadhead jigs, and swimbaits covers both halibut and the lingcod tight to the rock. Chinook come to trolled anchovy, herring, spoons, and hootchies in the exposed current lines above the hump.
Heard Island Hump is one of the spots we track around Port Hardy. See every scored spot in British Columbia.
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