Kinahan Islands
54.21°N · 130.41°W
Now 25 · 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
- 1 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 of 10 from Apr 1 2026 to Mar 31 2027. Max size 112 cm head-on (85 cm pectoral/head-off). Must record retained halibut on licence/NRLS.
Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 4-9 · synced today
Seasonality
52-week view · today highlightedWhen Halibut is best at this spot
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The Kinahan Islands sit west of Prince Rupert in the approaches to Chatham Sound, a cluster of rocky islets and kelp-fringed shoreline that concentrates baitfish and holds feeding salmon along their edges. Chinook Salmon are the headline target, with peaks running February through April and again April through July, while Coho Salmon fire from May through September. Working depths of 30 to 120 feet covers the productive water, where downrigger trolling with whole herring, anchovy in a teaser head, trolling spoons, or hootchies behind flashers is the dominant approach for Chinook, backed up by mooching cut-plug herring or jigging metal jigs and soft plastic swimbaits along the drop-offs. Coho respond to trolling spoons, hoochies, plastic squids, and cut plug herring on the downriggers, and turn aggressive to bucktail flies worked near the surface or metal jigs and casting spoons retrieved through breaking fish.
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