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Area 7 San Juan Islands Fishing Reports

By: Basstard
Posted: 7/18/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got off of work shot out to The Swin bridges. It was a nightmare people taking there sweet time loading there boats while us wanting to drop boats in had to wait 30+ minutes to even see the dock. Cr...
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By: Basstard
Posted: 7/14/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with a buddy to see if we could talk a salmon into jumping into my boat. No such luck. of course the damn sharks had no problem doing it for them. There were a ton of boats out there. T...
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Posted: 6/15/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I was really hoping on fishing on saturday since this is the last weekend of ling season but the weather wouldent cooperate. fishing in 25 knot winds is pretty dangerous... the weather was better so w...
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Posted: 6/6/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I just went out for the evening yesterday. the wind was pushing our boat pretty fast so I had to put the kicker in reverse while we were fishing. we caught a few rockfdish and I got a 22in ling, but n...
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By: stephanp
Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well, this weekend was one to remember .. I started the trip mooching for lings and caught a 19lbs. on friday night. and limit of rock fish. Saturday did the same but caught 15lbs ling. Sunday drove t...
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Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Halibut
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Carl, Vince and I fished Middle Bank on Saturday. We Started fishing in 65 ft of water to get a feel for the drift, hoping to get everyone fishing right by the time we hit 90 ft. At 75 ft, Vince had a...
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By: Basstard
Posted: 5/31/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We hopped all over. Hit Pea and some kelp beds with rock work and we did excellent today. I got three lings all very close to keepers but none went home with me. My buddy got one keeper and my oth...
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Posted: 5/30/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I've been really sick for the last 2 days but incredibly I got better in time for the weekend ya! we left the marina at about 5:30am and cruised through the fog to strawberry island. we fished the wes...
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Posted: 5/30/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This is actually more of a joined report from the last 2 times i went lingcod fishing. bothe times we did not get any keepers but caught some rockfish and small lings. my dad was using a half of a gre...
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Posted: 5/24/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Dispite the huge tide, Dad and I went for a day of Halibut. A little lumpy when we got to Middle Bank but we had a great downhill drift. I set dad up with a spreader bar,24oz weight, and a bubble gum ...
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Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
today we had a pretty full boat we had my neighbor and his son, my friend david, my dad and me. first we went to some shallow water to hopefully get the little ten year old into some fish. we were usi...
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By: Matt
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
A great couple of day on the water. Fished all over from Peapod to lummi hit a lot of spots and found a lot of fish. Several Ling double headers, 3 rockfish over 4 pounds (2 over 5!) and a huge pod o...
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Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
my dad woke me up at 5:00 am this morning and asked if i wanted to go lingcod fishing. I got up despite the 5 hours of sleep I got. we ended up on the water at 6:00 which is pretty good considering we...
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By: calico68
Posted: 5/3/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I just moved here from San Diego Ca. Frist time on the water here in Washington. We fish around Lopez Island, but we forgot bait so we fish mostly plastic. We caught 2 rock fish, 3 cabezon, and short ...
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Posted: 5/3/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I was hoping we'd do a repeat of yesterday and catch some nice lings but the weather would not cooperate. Unfortunatly we caught over our limit in rockfish and had to to throw back 2 rockfish that wou...
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Posted: 5/3/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
So we started fishing in the north islands for Lings. Within an hour and a half we had released 4 undersized and kept 4 that were from 27-31 inches. Not the pigs we were looking for but we were quit...
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Posted: 5/2/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Only had a quick time frame to get out for ling opener. Launched at 5:30, wind was 10-15knt. Got to the fishing hole around 6:10pm. Mainly used motor oil and white, both had fish. All action was b...
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Posted: 5/1/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
had a blast today... we went out targeting lingcod we fished middle channel for an hour or 2 without any fish. then went to one of my rather secretive spots (sorry). we were fishing a drift that has 9...
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Posted: 4/26/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Halibut report. We launched at Cornet bay at 6am. Huge waves and tides turned me and lots of other boats around when we reached West beach. Sat at the launch jigging herring with a guy that let us bor...
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Posted: 3/27/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Bad news for the Anacortes derby this weekend. We fished Lovers Rock on the first tide with no fish hooked or marked. Then on the incoming tide moved to Point Doughty and spoke to one lucky guy with o...
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Posted: 2/21/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The morning tides set up great for mooching so we set up on our drift and proceeded to fish. soon after starting, we started picking up Lings. We landed 4 before we hooked up with a pig. Took Carl 15 ...
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By: TomD
Posted: 2/21/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished in the San Juans with TomS. We launched at Washington Park and wanted to start in Thatcher Pass for the outgoing tide. It was pretty windy outside and most of the boats tucked in closer to th...
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Posted: 2/15/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
well I don't have the patience for salmon fishing at least not this time of the year. so I went and tried to catch and release a big lingcod. the problem with doing this is inevitably you always you'l...
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Posted: 2/7/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
me and my paps went out for blackmouth this morning. we got out kinda late and started fishing at 930. after trying tide point and point Lowrance we got bored and went to a kelp bed for greenling. we ...
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By: tarwegian
Posted: 2/2/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I headed out to Area 7 early for my first and long awaited day of Blackmouth fishing this year. I launched out of Washington Park, 8 bucks ouch, but its close to the places I like to fish. I spent mo...
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