Anyone tried spearfishing in B.C for lingod? Rock Cod?

[Darkonos]

Know any good locations? depths?

 

[efattah]

The most fish I have ever seen at any location were at Graham's wall off Sidney (near Victoria), at a depth of around 30m.

However, for the most part everything except greenling is closed. You need to go very far away to find anywhere where Rockfish or Ling Cod are open. There are some good spots on the sunshine coast. General overfishing means that most of the good spots are not divulged by the people who know them (I have friends who spear quite a bit, but I don't personally know where these spots are).

Another spot filled with fish is the Whyte Islets on the sunshine coast, tons of greenling on the West side of the islets, tons of Rock fish on the east side, but again Rock fish closed. Twenty sea lions or more live there as well.

 

[Darkonos]

30m is way out of my league right now ha. I was watching videos of people getting legal size ling at 15-30feet in northern california. I have seen big cod at 10 feet in rock areas before. Man I hope they open ling and rock for summer. Thanks for the tip on greenling, I will check that out this summer for sure.
Heres fishing regulations:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Pacific Region | Recreational Fishing | Species | Finfish Table