Lingcod Spearfishing 101 | British Columbia | Rules & Regs 

One more note. Please ensure you are hunting with a gun that's capable of shooting through a Lingcod. Many entry level guns will not do the trick. Plus, ensure your flopper is well tuned. Loosing fish is the worst... Check out Daniel Mann's video on how to tune your flopper. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7dyIQ6wIgDE.html&t

Man how I LOVE hunting lings and cabs!!! They make great fish and chips...

Amazing video! I really appreciate everything you do to promote an ethical approach to harvesting in our waters. Keep it up!

Nice video as always. Love to see you preaching responsible harvesting on this platform for all viewers, spearfishers or not. Keep it up

Excellent video! This type of content can go a long way teaching and guiding people, myself included, in the right directions! Thanks!

Very well done! I especially like the emphasis on sustainable hunting. Haven't considered BC as a dive location; perhaps I should; it's not that far a drive from north central WA!

You are a wise person chris. Thanks for spreading the info.

Nice job sharing the lingcod bro

right on brother... nice shoots and narrative :-)

Keeping it sustainable is paramount, I view the ocean as a gift. If we don't perserve it fer the future fer people to enjoy again and again who are we? It's like a good camping spot or most things really, I want to go back. Thus trashing it so I can't or don't want to is a no go...

awesome stuff Chris. This is going to help a lot of people! thanks for taking the time and effort to make the community better.

Very informative video.

Really enjoyed this!! Thanks for the info

This was super helpful 👏 👌 👍 🙂

Another awesome video!

Spot on man! Great video. Thx.

amazing footage man!

Thank you for the great information on this species! I did not know the important role the male played in guarding the eggs. Last week I caught a 36" ling (in 285' of water) which I later discovered to be full of eggs. I was bummed thinking about how many offspring were potentially removed from this deep reef. Now that I know the male is just as important I will likely release any big ling caught while fishing from my boat. Unlike rock fish which suffer from barotrauma when brought up from this depth, the lings can easily be returned to the water without the need of a descending device.

The fish greed is real! I worked as a fishing guide for 8 years in Kyuquot and Zeballos and it's disturbing how these people pay alot of money to go out on these trips then since they paid out they feel like the ocean owes them something. I remember one trip I had 3 guys out and we were doing really good limited out on salmon, halibut, rock cod and just 2 lingers short of a full house. With about 250 pounds of whole fish on board already and they were disappointed I couldn't find those last 2 lings. One guy didn't even like to eat fish but, wanted to max out his limit anyway. When I started I used to love fishing at the end I hated it. I have only been fishing twice personally in the last 4 years and I will say that Zeballos area has taken huge hit in the last few decades. The inlet used to be loaded with lings and cod but now it's mostly a waste of time. 35 years ago on a calm summer weekend you would see 5 to 10 small boats and now its 100 to 300 big well equiped boats with good tech and way better fishing gear. If everyone could just step back and look at the whole picture past, present and future hopefully their would be more understanding for the balance of the ocean. The writing is on the wall for the future of the ocean if anyone dares to read it to another fisherman. Good vid man.

Thanks for the knowledge and all the hours you spend to edit these videos before sharing them with us. Appreciate all the knowledge especially ! Lingcod are also my favorite but here in California the species is really struggling.

One of my favourite west coast fish, thanks Chris.

you're so right

Great job man 👍🏼

Great information Chris! Thanks for sharing

This was really cool! Thanks for sharing. Love educational videos

Thanks for making this and sharing your experience on such an important topic

Great video!! Thanks for making this as it is super informative!!

Thanks Chris! Another great video! 3 in some areas (outer coast I assume), wow! We can keep two on the coast in WA. One in Puget Sound. In Puget sound the season is only 45 days. On the coast it's mid-March to mid-October.

Great video man! Cleared up some things for me.

Wow, what a great video! So much great video footage. The narration was interesting and really well delivered.

Hey! beautiful Video! I am currently living in Vancouver and really want to get out in the water. I am just getting back from a year of spearfishing in Aus and don't really know the scene here in BC. If you are ever looking for a buddy to go with or wouldn't mind me tagging along shoot me a message!! Thanks again for the video

Another fantastic video. Thank you for all the great information! Appreciate all your hard work! Researching, filming, editing, writing always provide an enjoyable and educational viewing. Recently moved to Tacoma WA and have the itch to explore as you do in your videos. Do you have any recommendations to learn the proper breathing techniques to enjoy this amazing activity safely?

Super cool video man, wanna get into spear fishing but don’t have the stuff any suggestions on how to get started?

Great Videos! what suit do you recommend for PNW, 7mm?

I'm trying to map out some potential spots on my navionics, what's the shallowest that you've successfully hunted lings? When I would jig for them from my kayak, I would usually aim for small pinnacles no less than 30 meters. And lately I'm very lucky to clear half that diving (gotta get back in shape). Also have you ever had to worry about their spines? I noticed you getting pretty close after a shot when they're mid fight and I recoiled just watching it ahaha.

Great footage - what's your set up?

How far would you need to travel from Vancouver to find an area where lingcod can be fished legally? Would you need to go as far as Sechelt/Gibsons?

I keep hearing this argument about halibut not being good if they're big, never heard it about Ling. Anyways, I don't think it's true for either one. There are a lot of good reasons to release large fish, for the health of the species reproductively and genetically, as well as for the release of older fish, whether they are large or small. Some behaviours are size dependent, and some are learned. Large male and female are more capable of territorial defense and predator deterrence, protecting smaller ones, not only their own nests.

compared to when I started diving, 60 yrs ago there's not much left , the commercial fleet cleaned it out 30-40 yrs ago and we have not fished since , there maybe the odd spot but we leave them alone , and ling cod live a lot longer 6-7 ft long is still just a baby , also missing is the millions of rock cod ,abalone , dog fish , box crabs and so many other that any of the new divers will never see in this lifetime , actually had to disarm a spear gun diver before he shot someone underwater, disgusting