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Area 7 San Juan Islands Fishing Reports

By: Matt
Posted: 7/5/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After hearing tale of some awesome fishing in the Juans since the Chinook opener on July 1st, I was more than eager to jump on an open seat to go. I tagged along with a member of another site for an...
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By: Matt
Posted: 5/22/2011
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished are 7 this weekend with WAlakes members Bawk Bawk and Sickbayer out of Sickbayer's boat. We launched at Bellingham around 10:00am and had lines in the water at South Lummi at 10:30am, first li...
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Posted: 5/13/2011
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Another beautiful day on the water. Started fishing about 8:30am as outgoing tide was finishing up. Drifted with current in about 80-125 feet. On the second bounce of the first time down just afte...
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By: redadams
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
lingcod fishing sunday good time had by all.hooked 18 lings kept 2 rest too small put them back to grow-up for next year.kept 1 at 34 in and 1 at 35 in any thing smaller let it go.all-so kept 2 cabezo...
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Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to Orcas for opening day. Got there in the morning as the tide was just finishing it's outgoing flow. Caught and released quite a few small lings and a few rockfish. Did not see anyone doing...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/3/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
on sept, 02=5 on sept,04=5 total dungeness crabs catch=10
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/3/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
aug,12=5 aug,14=5 aug, 18=3 aug,19=5 aug,21=5 aug,26=3 aug,27=5 aug,28=5 sep,02=5 sep,03=5 sep,04=5 sep,05=3 total dungeness crabs catch=54
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Posted: 9/7/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
it was a good labor day weekend with some friends hit area 7 in guemes island crabbed the 4th and the 5th. lines were from 85-95 feet using salmon, flounder, cod, ect. dropped the pots and let it...
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Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water around 10 am. Lost 2 fish. One being around 25 to 30 pounds. Caught this 21 pound hatchery king around 2 pm. My first king and had a great day on the water.
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Posted: 7/27/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We threw everything at them. Saw a bunch of Kings actually boiling up at the surface but they were not interested in what we had to offer.
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By: F'Sean
Posted: 7/20/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Dropped my knew pot next to freeman island and let it sit for a couple hours. Pulled up two redrocks one of which was good sized. 6 3/4in. The other was normal, 5 3/4in. Not the best day of crabbing I...
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By: F'Sean
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Copper Rockfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to beachhaven and fished for 4 days on the incoming tide. Caught 25. (5 lings, 19 coppers, and a kelp greenling.) All fish were carefully released. Jigged them up on 1 ounce point wilson darts. ...
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By: rseas
Posted: 7/15/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We decided to do the crab opener in marine area 7 East. We arrived at the ramp in Larrabee State Park around 2:30 pm and found the ramp high and dry. We ended waiting a couple hours for the tide to ge...
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Posted: 7/6/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the San Juans with the Cooter and finally found some good fish. Fishing was slow, to say the least. We found the first fish (17lbs) on an hour after the incoming exchange just north of Tide Point....
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Posted: 7/3/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a difference a day makes. Matador and I hit the water at first light only to find the fish I saw the day before, had moved on. We fished Thatcher, Tide point, and several other spots. I think we ...
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Posted: 7/1/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The opener in the islands was less than spectacular, however, dad and I got our one fish limits. Fished Thatcher Pass for our fish. Neither were big (13 & 9) but both were adult migratory fish. Saw lo...
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Posted: 6/16/2010
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My Pops, Bro, and I took the boat out of Orcas to Sucia Island to get in on the last weekend of Lingcod Season, and we had a blast. We caught quite a bit of smaller lings and some decent size rockfish...
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Posted: 6/16/2010
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all around Sucia Island on the last weekend of Lingcod Season. We were constantly catching little lings and rock fish. My Pops caught a legal 26 incher on saturday in about 90 feet of water on ...
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By: joekacker
Posted: 6/2/2010
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
OK where to start. The weekend before Last. My buddy and I went down to Deception pass for a little ling fishing off the shore. Im throwing a 4 oz Point Wilson Dart. To my amazement, guess what grabs ...
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By: TomD
Posted: 5/10/2010
Species: Halibut
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
TomS joined me, so we ran to Hein Bank to give it a try. Not quite so many trailers as Friday, but still had to park outside on the road. A bit bumpy getting out there, then the water/wind settled d...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/2/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Ok, Went out looking to score some blackmouth. We hit the tides with no fish on. Decided to do some other fishing since we had no luck. We got some greenlings and other types let them all ...
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Posted: 8/7/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Was out trolling by 6am, got lucky and hit a little 6-7lb hatchery fish at about 7am. Finally, first chinook of the season. It was on a green e-chip with a blue/glow hoochie. About 10 feet off bott...
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By: Basstard
Posted: 8/3/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well here we go again! Today was a decent day. My brother and buddy went with me. We got a super late start and we were dropping our lines in about 9:30 am. This being said we had our only ...
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By: Basstard
Posted: 7/27/2009
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
O dark thirty had my cousin and my brother in the boat chuggen along. We shot strait to Orcas and as the sun was peaking out, the downrigger was dropping. We trolled till about 8:45 am with n...
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Posted: 7/24/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Thatcher/Lopez the last few mornings/evenings. Trolled standard flasher hoochie/coho killer. No salmon. I was out also last week, and heard of a few decent fish caught. This week...not...
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