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Area 7 San Juan Islands Fishing Reports
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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 ...
By: Kgbeez
Posted: 1/11/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled the mouth of obstruction pass on the rosairo side starting around one o'clock, my friend got the first fish of the day about an half hour in after a couple missed bites,around 7lbs, after a co...
By: kurtkettel
Posted: 2/23/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/22/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Excited to get my boat back from the shop (in 4 weeks!)--re-done floor (had delaminated from a previous fix)...headed toward Salmon Bank yesterday morning...1/2 way across buddy says "hey, water comin...
By: rmrauscher
Posted: 2/26/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
First time up to Area 7 and we did pretty good. About 5lb hatchery fish (pic) and about 5lb native (c&r). Also caught 6 or 8 almost keepers, close but no cigar.
Fished the Pointer Rock area with Re...
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: BARCHASER10
Posted: 7/10/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Took my Seahawk out with my friend who lives in Mt. Vernon. I was going to stay at his place and fish for 3 days but the fishing didn't cooperate. Launched at Wash Pk 7:30 and started out at Thatch...
By: jpjames14
Posted: 7/15/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fun weekend with the Bellingham Salmon Derby. Landed two decent Chinook, one 13 pounds and one at 16.94 (weighed in). Both fish were fantastic fights. The smaller one made a run skipping on top 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...
By: Jthy1984
Posted: 8/26/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit he San Juan's first light, getting to the spot took about an hour. Started fishing 5:30ish. 5 minutes into trolling and bam! Fish on. Stupid shaker. Let that one go. 10 minutes later another one, ...
By: nvan
Posted: 9/1/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a week in the San Juan Islands starting in Anacortes for some crabbing. The crabbing was good and the crab were big. We caught 16 over two days using old trout fillets. Excellent bait.
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By: jpjames14
Posted: 10/7/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A great day out in the islands, likely going to cap off the year for the boat. We headed out around 9am, nice and lazy, and were at the spot around 10:30. The tide change strangely brought no bite, ...
By: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 5/2/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Was able to get out the last 2 days blackmouth was open in MA7 and had a decent few days. Hooked 4 each day and was able to land 3 hatchery fish, one of which was over 20 lbs. On to lingcod now!
Ri...
By: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 12/17/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/17/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Man its nice to have some time off :). With hatch steelhead fisheries weak as usual... And the salt boat needing to be run, headed out for the tide today. Fishing was great in the sound the first few ...
By: fishing magician
Posted: 2/16/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Not very good fishing in the Juans. Wasn't long before we had our first hit but not a hookup. Then went awhile without anything. Just as I was going to reel in to switch lures i hooked something. It ...
By: TomD
Posted: 2/4/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took a solo trip to the San Juans on Saturday in my trusty Arima. Launched at Cornet Bay with no crowds or lines. Blasted West and fished in the south parts of Area 7. Only had one hit for the day,...
By: BARCHASER10
Posted: 7/9/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out in my buddies boat, 2 rods. Launched at Washington Park at 6:30AM, fished Eagle Bluff mostly and quit at 2PM. Nice day, no wind, morning fog, always pretty around Rosario Strait. 15 other ...
By: stevenb_photo
Posted: 7/20/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Stayed the weekend at Roche harbor and fished lime kiln Saturday & Sunday morning at high tide. Was targeting chinook but just couldn't get away from the pinks. They are in strong already. Tried 40 - ...
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...
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: 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 ...
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...
