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By: rseas
Posted: 2/16/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/9/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Wow and I apologize. This report is for Sunday the 9th, basically a week ago. I have been up to my elbows since the first of the year. Shoot, I/we’ve been burning the candle at both ends for a year or...
By: Web77
Posted: 2/22/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/21/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Good day all, had an early off day from work so decided to head out of Washington park for a couple hours in the evening.
Left the launch at 2pm and headed over to Lopez flats as outgoing tide was...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 7/7/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/5/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This was a 4 day boat camping trip out in the great San Juan Islands, with some fishing, shrimping and family visits mixed in. Shrimping was tough as I did not have the correct cat food (and they rea...
By: motley
Posted: 7/16/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Took the family over to Orcas and spent two days trolling the west side. Day one my youngest daughter hooked into about a 5-6lb native chinook which was released from the water. My oldest daughter cau...
By: Salmonids
Posted: 7/27/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/27/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out in the morning with a little later start than usual. Got to the rich just after sunrise. Dropped a few crab potsOn the way. Tide was coming in so hein bank was the go to spot. Felt pretty ...
By: rseas
Posted: 9/1/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/30/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, a fitting end to our local chinook fishery and one for the record books. Going to bed Saturday night I hadn’t settled on a plan for fishing Sunday. 2:00 alarm and a quick look at “Windy” and plan...
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: motley
Posted: 7/14/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of Anacortes and fished north towards Indian village. Fish started hitting around 10:00 and bite lasted til 11:30. Fished at 93ft with green flasher and green/yellow hootchie. Managed to...
By: riverhunter
Posted: 7/15/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Caught this guy off of heins bank using red racer flasher to 42in leader og2 in blue/green/white the 2.8 size. Had to go through a dozen shakers before we got a decent fish. Ended the day with 3 nice ...
By: afk
Posted: 8/2/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/1/2018
Hot Spots: 0
A huge shout out to rmrsuscher of this site for all of his help! We fished off of Eagle Cliffs for the first time and were rewarded well. We had fished here the day before as well as off of Indian Vil...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 8/30/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Wife and I took a five night boat camping trip to the San Juan islands last weekend with fishing on Sunday through Tuesday. I was able to find the bait, some places lit up the entire FF screen, 100' ...
By: Drhouseofauto
Posted: 7/6/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2019
Hot Spots: 0
The mighty hunters set off at 330 in the morning in search of food . Kid forgot licsence and so set out again at four. Launched at deception pass and arrived at eagle point for end of morning bite. Ro...
By: rseas
Posted: 7/22/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/21/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Work, work, work, fish, work, work, work… seems to be the flow of my summer. You would think that I would sleep in on one of my few days off. Nooooo, Sunday we were up at 1:30 for a 3:00 launch at Cor...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 7/23/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/20/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This is actually for a three day boat camping trip to San Juan's for the 20-22nd, we anchored one night in Garrison Harbor and the next night in Reid Harbor. Fishing was tough and slow all three days...
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: 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...
By: rseas
Posted: 8/29/2021
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/29/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Ok gang, I’m not sure where to go with this one. On a request, Sunday I had agreed to take a friend out to learn the ropes as applicable to the Bellingham Bay Fishery. The fishery is a sub-fishery of ...
By: rseas
Posted: 7/3/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Around my house the Marine Area 7 opener has been on the calendar since the date was announced. With the boat, gear and fresh herring strips ready we were counting hours. Unfortunately, Karen had a la...
By: rseas
Posted: 7/5/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Back to the islands. We had planned on fishing a sure thing somewhere but I woke up at 12:30 Saturday morning. Once up, I’m usually feet on the floor but I still had 4 hours before we were leaving. I ...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 8/1/2022
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Beat the heat on Saturday out on the water and managed to catch a couple kings as a bonus, one had to go back with too many fins, but the big one was a keeper! It was a battle to keep the lines in th...
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...
Posted: 6/25/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The first thing I tried was the dock and I saw a few pile perch that must have had the I.Q. of Einstein because they refused anything I put on my 6lb line including sand worms. from their I walked to ...
Posted: 5/4/2008
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Alright...back to reality for me. After a great opener in 7 north, hit 7 south today for ling. I usually don't fish 7 south, but I was there for the shrimp on Sat. (BTW, shrimp was slow, 10-12 per pul...
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 ...
By: SFCMcGan
Posted: 8/28/2017
Species: Atlantic Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/27/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Great Day on the water.. went up to Anacortes near the Fish pen that let all the Atlantic salmon get out.. lots of boats... and gill netters... anyhoo.. We got on the water at 6am.. headed out across ...
