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Tunstall Bay (Bowen Island)

49.42°N · 123.37°W

Species
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Best score for the day · 6 AM
91/100
GOOD

Now 24 · 10 PM PDT

BEST WINDOW
6 AM-9 PM
Tide flooding
DFO · PFMA 28-1 · Halibut openRegulations ↗1 per day · angling, spear fishing while diving
14-Day Forecast
Data from: ECMWF + GFS + BlueCaster

24-Hour Conditions

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Conditions
Time
10 PM
Now
Score
24
Tough
Tide
13.7 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
—
Ebb
Wind
1 kn
W · gusty
Sea state
Rippled
0.2 m
Air temp
19°
Warm
Weather
Overcast
100% cloud
Hour 10 PM. Score 24 Tough. Tide 13.7ft Falling ▼. Current -1.1kn Ebb. Wind 1kn W G16. Sea 0.2m Rippled. Air 18.8°.
Why this score
Current
0.3 kn light
Prime

Current regulations

In effect now

What you can keep at this spot today

Halibut
Retention open
Daily limit
1 per day
Possession
Not published
Gear
angling, spear fishing while diving
Annual quota
10 per year
Other
Daily limit 1. Annual limit 10 (Apr 1 2026 to Mar 31 2027). No halibut greater than 112 cm head-on length (85 cm pectoral length head-off). Possession limit equals daily limit.
Other species here
Wolf Eel ClosedCoho Salmon Retention openBocaccio Rockfish Catch & releaseCanary Rockfish Catch & releaseYelloweye Rockfish Catch & releaseChinook Salmon ClosedGiant Pacific Octopus Retention openRockfish (Aggregate) ClosedLingcod Closed
Always check with DFO ↗

Source: DFO/MPO · PFMA 28-1 · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Halibut is best at this spot

Shoulder seasonShoulder season for Halibut
~3 more weeks in shoulder
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Peak seasonShoulder seasonOff season
SPOT PROFILE
DEPTH
40-180 ft
Rock
LAUNCH
Not mapped
PEAK
Shoulder
STRUCTURE
Drop Off
Inner Protected

Tunstall Bay sits on the southwest shore of Bowen Island in DFO subarea 28-1, an inner-protected pocket where a rocky drop-off falls from the shoreline into 40 to 180 feet of water. Chinook Salmon move through from June to August, followed closely by Coho Salmon which hold from June into September, while Rockfish stay resident on the structure year-round. Downrigger trolling with anchovy in teaser heads, hootchies, or trolling spoons behind flashers covers the salmon along the drop-off edge, with mooching cut plug herring a productive alternative when Chinook stack deeper on the rock. For Coho working closer to the surface, bucktail flies and small casting spoons draw strikes over the same contour. Rockfish come to leadhead jigs with soft plastics and metal jigs worked tight to the bottom in the deeper end of the range.

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