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Area 7 San Juan Islands
Area 7 San Juan Islands
By: Kisutch
Posted: 3/31/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/31/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for 3 days of fishing this weekend (Friday, Saturday, Sunday). We burned a lot of fuel running from Squalicum Harbor each day, but I feel like I finally did some good break-in with my ...
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Area 7 San Juan Islands
Area 7 San Juan Islands
By: Kisutch
Posted: 3/25/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/24/2019
Hot Spots: 0
After driving to anacortes and struggling to buy a bite or calm water Thursday, I got a tip to go North. We had a much shorter car ride and much longer boat ride as we launched at Squalicum around 7:...
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Area 7 San Juan Islands
Area 7 San Juan Islands
By: Kisutch
Posted: 3/21/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/21/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Finally starting to gain a little bit of confidence in my new-to-me boat, so today we swapped the Kokanee gear for Salmon Gear and headed to the San Juan Islands. This was my first time fishing in th...
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Whatcom
Whatcom
By: Kisutch
Posted: 7/8/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
After a long day of losing Kokanee all you can do is laugh and shake your head. On Wednesday (4th of July) I took advantage of the new kokanee limit on Lake Whatcom, and along with two other peop...
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Whatcom
Whatcom
By: Kisutch
Posted: 6/21/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/20/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the weeknights of having lake whatcom to myself are gone. I realized as soon as I pulled in that things were different, with 80+ degree weather and the kids out of school the beach was buzzing ...
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Whatcom
Whatcom
By: Kisutch
Posted: 6/6/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, one of the most memorable 3.5 hours and 7 fish days I've ever had. I went by myself to lake Whatcom for the first time tonight to try and get my first smallmouth bass on a fly rod. I had the bo...
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Samish
Samish
By: Kisutch
Posted: 5/31/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/30/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Decided I would celebrate my birthday with a post work troll on Lake Samish yesterday. Didn't arrive to the parking lot until 4:50 and immediately pulled my *unlatched* tacklebox out of the car, spil...
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Samish
Samish
By: Kisutch
Posted: 5/19/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
First serious Kokanee trip of the year in the books. I thought with the Lake Stevens derby going on to the south I would have an opportunity to get the lake to myself, but when I turned into the park...
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Pass
Pass
By: Kisutch
Posted: 5/10/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Im trying to learn how to fly fish and I had a meeting in anacortes tonight, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to fish a new water. I had a little under 2 hours to be at the lake, and I mos...
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Area 2 Westport - Ocean Shores
Area 2 Westport - Ocean Shores
By: Kisutch
Posted: 4/22/2018
Species: Clams
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Made it to the ocean for clamming for the first time this year. Friday 5 of us clammed at the Roosevelt Beach Access (mocrocks) and dug 5 limits, Saturday 5 of us clammed at Ocean Shores (copalis) an...
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Clear
Clear
By: Kisutch
Posted: 4/19/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
First after work trip of the year. Left the launch a few minutes before 6 and fished until 7:30. I fished the lake on Sunday and had a spot to fish in mind, so we beelined straight for that spot and...
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Clear
Clear
By: Kisutch
Posted: 4/16/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We worked for our limit yesterday. Fished from 10am until 4pm with 10 fish kept, 1 small one released, and a whole load of missed bites and long distance releases. When we arrived a hatch was happeni...
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Terrell
Terrell
By: Kisutch
Posted: 4/15/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/13/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Was itching to catch a fish, and despite the nasty weather forecast for friday the morning started off decently, overcast with light winds in Bellingham. So after finishing my morning chores I went o...
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Fazon
Fazon
By: Kisutch
Posted: 4/3/2018
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/1/2018
Hot Spots: 0
With the nasty weather forecast and Easter Dinner to get to later, I decided to stay close to home on some small water rather than hit one of the larger, less protected lakes for kokanee. Fazon has b...
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Samish
Samish
By: Kisutch
Posted: 3/18/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
First day back on Samish of 2018. Managed to shake off some rust, but couldn't find a single willing biter! Launched at 10am and fished until 2pm. Tried trolling, baitfishing, and jigging with no s...
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Roses
Roses
By: Kisutch
Posted: 2/19/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Stayed with a group of friends in a beautiful vacation rental property on roses lake this weekend. I wasn't sure what the surface conditions of the lake would be, but since there was a dock at the ho...
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Campbell
Campbell
By: Kisutch
Posted: 2/10/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/9/2018
Hot Spots: 0
With a decent weather day in the forecast it was time to get the boat wet again. We decided to mix it up and explore a new lake that had been recently stocked with triploids. We fished 10:00 to 3:00...
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Goodwin
Goodwin
By: Kisutch
Posted: 1/16/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/14/2018
Hot Spots: 1
The weather was some of the best I can remember on an early January weekend, so it was time to dust off the boat, get the old outboard running and enjoy the water for the first time since September. ...
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Samish
Samish
By: Kisutch
Posted: 7/18/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We were the first boat checked by AIS Friday morning and hit the water just before 6am. Within 10 minutes of lines down we had 2 fish boated and we were high fiving thinking we were about to have a s...
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Area 7 San Juan Islands
Area 7 San Juan Islands
By: Kisutch
Posted: 7/18/2017
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
First time out crabbing in my new boat. We headed out to bellingham bay and got the pots set just before noon and by 4pm we were off the water with our 3 limits and we even had to throw some keepers ...
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Samish
Samish
By: Kisutch
Posted: 6/4/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Friday and Saturday. I cant give individual ratings, but friday was probably a 2 and saturday a 4. Friday we slep in and hit the water around 10:30. We spent a long time locati...
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Samish
Samish
By: Kisutch
Posted: 5/29/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the launch at 5:30, but broke my pump hose terminal while inflating my boat, so I had to do some goofy hose holding and took longer than I like to get everything ready to go. Got it done thoug...
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Samish
Samish
By: Kisutch
Posted: 5/27/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Bright Sunny day, so some friends and I jumped in the boat and fished the afternoon on Samish. We trolled wedding rings and kokanee lures, and while fishing wasn't hot, there was enough action to kee...
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Samish
Samish
By: Kisutch
Posted: 5/13/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hadn't been to Samish in a few weeks, so we decided to head that way and see if the lake had warmed up (it had!). There was a bass tournament on the lake, so the parking lot was overflowing with trai...
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Padden
Padden
By: Kisutch
Posted: 4/22/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day on Padden is as close to a guarantee as it gets. Hit the water early (5:30) and fished until 2pm. Caught well over 40 fish on the boat, long distance released another 15, and missed coun...
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