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Alert Rock

50.58°N · 126.96°W

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Best score for the day · 10 AM
89/100
GOOD

Now 27 · 4 AM PDT

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Conditions
Time
4 AM
Now
Score
27
Tough
Tide
13.9 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
Ebb
Wind
1 kn
S · steady
Sea state
Flat
0.0 m chop
Air temp
13°
Mild
Weather
Overcast
98% cloud
Hour 4 AM. Score 27 Tough. Tide 13.9ft Falling ▼. Current -0.1kn Slack. Wind 1kn S G3. Sea 0.0 m chop Flat. Air 12.6°.
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
2 per day
Possession
2 in possession
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 (Apr 1 2026 to Mar 31 2027). Max size 112cm head-on (85cm pectoral/head-off). Must record all retained halibut.
Other species here
Canary Rockfish Retention openCopper Rockfish Retention openLingcod Retention openChinook Salmon Retention openCoho Salmon Retention openCod Retention openBlack Rockfish Retention open
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Source: DFO/MPO · synced today

Seasonality

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When Halibut is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
1-91 ft
Rock
LAUNCH
Not mapped
PEAK
Peak now
STRUCTURE
Pinnacle
Outer Exposed

Alert Rock is an outer-exposed pinnacle off Port McNeill, British Columbia, rising through rocky bottom that fishes from the surface down to about 90 feet. The exposed rock draws Chinook Salmon from May through August and Coho Salmon from May through September, both worked most effectively by trolling whole herring, spoons, or flashers across the structure. Lingcod hold tight to the pinnacle with peaks in late winter and again from June into September, and they respond to metal jigs, swimbaits, and leadhead jigs dropped along the rock. Copper and Black Rockfish stack up over the same terrain through summer, taking metal jigs and soft plastic swimbaits close to the bottom. Pacific Halibut move through from May to August and are targeted by drift jigging leadhead jigs and salmon belly over the deeper edges of the pinnacle.

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