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By: steepanddeep
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...
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...
By: huricandan
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...
By: wintersteelhead
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...
By: wintersteelhead
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 ...
By: wintersteelhead
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....
By: reigndawgs
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.
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...
By: TomD
Posted: 9/6/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the San Juans with bro-in-law Tom and nephew Scott. Super long day, didn't get home until after 11pm. Launched at Cornet Bay, dropped crab pots on South Lopez (no keepers) and headed West of ...
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...
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...
By: wintersteelhead
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 ...
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...
By: wintersteelhead
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...
Posted: 7/10/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went out for a few hours chasing crab and Chinook. 10-15 knot wind, clear skies. had a little luck with both. got three keeper RR at 4:30pm slack. also three 6-61/8 male dungies...back they went. n...
Posted: 7/31/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Just a quick report....this is two in a row for me now being skunked....
Hit Point Lawrence and Peavine/Obstuction Pass. Was gunning for the kings, of course. No luck. water was EXTREMELY calm.....
By: G-Man
Posted: 8/29/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First a little report on the so called "launch" at Birch Bay State Park. The launch is really for car toppers, kayaks and canoes only. You could probably launch a small boat on a trailer but you wil...
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...
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 ...
By: _DH_
Posted: 8/30/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Indian village Sunday morning from around 9:00 to 1:00. Trolled mostly green flashers with a red stripe followed by whole anchovy in a bloody nose teaser head. We did switch it up a little tryi...
By: rseas
Posted: 9/6/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Labor day weekend 2016!
Been a few to many weeks since we got out on the water. Regarding the fishing; this report is definitely a 1 but to be fair after sleeping in 3 mornings in a row (we had an ...
By: kurtkettel
Posted: 12/1/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/1/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Couldn't resist the temptation...flew solo today as could not get another body to challenge the predicted Gale winds. Started (8:30am) at Tide Pt/Eagle Bluff--fished through high slack until 11am (hi...
By: Matt
Posted: 12/18/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I figured I would submit a report for the islands as no one has really had any real opportunities to get out due to the horrendous storm conditions we have been having through November and December. ...
By: kurtkettel
Posted: 1/3/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/1/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Ventured out to some local Rosario Straits ebb tide fishery locations...had one good take down/run but missed it. Packed up & headed west to a lot of boats at Salmon Bank. Had fish #1 cut off by big...
By: Jeff_e_d
Posted: 1/3/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
On the Holiday break from work and waited for the wind to die down before heading to the Juans. Started on Saturday at Lopez flats. Plenty of boats but no bait, fish or even shakers. Headed around ...
