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Area 7 San Juan Islands Fishing Reports
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By: Armando Cortez
Posted: 10/27/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I had plans to spend my birthday fishing lake Ki one more time before it closed for the season, but then I got a FB message from a friend that I haven't seen in probably 15 years or more asking if I w...
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 ...
By: samr
Posted: 7/31/2017
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We launched from the Squalicum Harbor boat launch and cruised out into Bellingham Bay. We placed pots on the south end of the bay and let them soak for approximately 2 hours. Upon return we pulled u...
By: lintriculus17
Posted: 8/4/2017
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/31/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Area 7 South, West side of Blakely Island... very good day two days in a row for Dungeness! Dropped pots in about 80' of water before high tide and a ~5 hour soak got us limits both days!
By: Salilsh
Posted: 7/26/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Caught about a dozen keepers last weekend on chicken legs. It was wall to wall crab buoy's but did okay regardless, hope everyone else did as well.
By: cohoslayerkevin
Posted: 7/28/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/27/2015
Hot Spots: 1
fished until 5 pm with a crab ring set and pulled a dozen times. 1st set got a few Dungeness none that were keepers 2 set pulled in a 7 1/2 incher nice dunge 3,4 th no keepers 6 females and 1 male jus...
Posted: 9/1/2019
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/31/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Pot picking thieves, that is how I would describe crabbing in the birch point area. It should be an alert when you see guys wearing side arms that are launching to go crabbing. I’m not an anti gun t...
By: kodacachers
Posted: 7/31/2018
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2018
Hot Spots: 1
We were mostly lounging at Fossil Bay on Sucia Island. Dropped the pot in 12 feet of water while on the mooring buoy. No Dungeness but some fairly good red rock crab on each pull. We only wanted on...
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. ...
By: VelociWedge
Posted: 10/22/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Overnight trip to Stuart Island in the overcast/foggy, but thankfully dry, weather. First soak of our two crab pots (baited with saved Coho carcasses) netted us 10 but alas, no keepers. Second soak b...
By: BentRod
Posted: 8/25/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the south end of MA7 on Saturday. Launched from Keystone at 5:30a and were out to our target location at 6:30. Foggy ride on the way out, but overcast, clear, and calm west of Smith Island. ...
By: Marcoramius
Posted: 10/4/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
An Area 7 report!?! Launched out of Washington Park around 7:30 and headed for my favorite area and was not disappointed. Lines down around 8:00 and had a nice 6 lb hatchery coho in the cooler soon af...
By: rseas
Posted: 9/28/2020
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/28/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This report is the second day of a 2-day fish-a-polusa. It is also the second day of 2 days off in a row, a rare event this summer. Due to a unfavorable wind forecast the trip was squishy but either w...
By: hiroshi
Posted: 9/5/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Eagle Point is really putting out some nice coho's around 24 inches. Monday, fished for about 1.5 hours, got 3 fish and Tuesday again about 1.5 hours and got 3 again. Didn't fish close to shore like...
By: rseas
Posted: 10/2/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/27/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Right up front I’ll apologize for the late report. I’m retired and I have no idea why my spare time is so limited. Thursday, I had agreed to help a friend find and recover a kicker motor that had jump...
By: spokey9
Posted: 5/28/2017
Species: Clams
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The family and I hit Birch Bay State Park for the first time today. Since the wdfw page said there were oysters and our usual beach doesn't. Sadly I didn't see any at Birch either. The wife and I got ...
By: bottombarrel
Posted: 3/5/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/4/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Area 7 Sunday morning on the slack tide with 2 friends and boy did we find the fish. Made our first lap and hit a 9lber less than 5 min in. after a few shakers we started the troll over and BAM...
By: rseas
Posted: 9/2/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
September 1 and my first San Juan Island chinook trip of the year has come and gone. Mike of NWFR and our good friend Robbie wanted me to make another run on the Atlantic salmon that had recently esca...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/2/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2017
Hot Spots: 2
More San Juan Island adventures!
After Tuesday’s Atlantic Salmon trip to Cypress Island rseas suggested that on Friday we try for some Chinook Salmon on the west side of San Juan Island. He had a ...
By: fisherman92
Posted: 9/6/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy's dad took us out for some kings in area 7 in his new duckworth. We fished a spot with about 80 other boats. Used coho killers behind flashers. Had a good one in the morning then nothing til...
By: scraig1962
Posted: 9/17/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Caught this 14lb chinook on the westside of Cypress. Trolled Luhr Jensen white uv/glow flashers and coho killers in herring aide and the two face cookies and cream colors. 100ft of wire out in 150 f...
By: FastActionGS
Posted: 1/3/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
what an incredible day on the water.
well folks, I don't guide on the salt (yet...), but i do love to fish it. today was an absolute blast. I went out to Area 7 for the first time today, and man w...
By: bottombarrel
Posted: 4/24/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/21/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Well Friday was the last day for blackmouth in area 7 and I have to say it was a great day. I have been utilizing this page for months researching and asking questions and it definitely paid off. Frid...
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. ...