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Area 7 San Juan Islands Fishing Reports
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Not much sunshine this Memorial Day weekend.....Took a quick boat ride out around the islands....While waiting for the pots to fill with shrimp, we decided to jig some herring for Ling Cod....usin...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/23/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2003
Hot Spots: 0
After the dismal fishing down South, decided to go North the next day! Missed the crack of dawn due to drive time and my inability to get up before 4:30 (grin). Launched at Washington Park at abou...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2004
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a few relaxing days on a family vacation at the scenic and laid back Lieberhaven Resort on the SE end of Orcas Island at Obstruction Pass. I spent a couple of hours each day fishing from th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/21/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lawrence point with Jim of Catchmore Charters of Anacortes, and my son.
Trolled plug cut herring with downriggers right on the bottom. Caught two blackmouth by eleven am. One twelve and ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2002
Hot Spots: 0
We went on our annual vacation to the Lieberhaven Resort at Obstruction Pass on Orcas Island from May 30th to June 4th. The fishing was surprisingly slow this year. Usually, we do real well on Gre...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/23/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/23/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Got out with Tom for a great day in the San Juan. The water was flat all day long everywhere we went. Sun was out too!
There wasn't much tide movement in the morning, which I think led to the l...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/4/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/4/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Roche Harbor 2005 Salmon Classic Invitational Feb 4th & 5th.
TALK ABOUT SLIM PICKINS..... 80+ boats with 4 people on each boat for (2) 10 hour days and only 36 fish caught for the entire weeke...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/9/2005
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Rating: 2
Fished: 7/9/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the water about 12:00 pm and planned on salmon fishing. Found out that both my down riggers couldnt be hooked up so i just messed around and jigged for a little while. Three small dogfish...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/19/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/19/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I caught this 26 lb. King last week jigging off Orcas. Biggest fish yet for me. :)
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/13/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
With calm water and calm weather decided it was a good day for a first try at some winter blackmouth. Hit lawrence at about 9:30. Water was 46 and clear. Had one hook-up on the boat, lost it, flash...
Posted: 5/2/2009
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Only had a quick time frame to get out for ling opener. Launched at 5:30, wind was 10-15knt. Got to the fishing hole around 6:10pm. Mainly used motor oil and white, both had fish. All action was b...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/25/2008
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went out in area 7 crabbing and salmon fishing Friday before the weekend rush. got nine keeper dungies and one real nice hatchery king (caught by my buddy Roberto, not me....but i was guiding!!!). no...
By: Onnor5
Posted: 5/27/2015
Species: Halibut
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
100ft of water with spreader bar, purple frozen herring and UV yellow squid. 4 on the boat. Mine was the biggest at 45 1/2 inches weighting about 35 lbs
By: Berchu
Posted: 8/4/2014
Species: Shrimp
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/3/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Caught wind of the limited season that was open in 7 South and decided to hit the last day. Got to the launch at 7 at Cornet Bay and it was foggy! Motored out to the south tip of Lopez and dropped f...
By: Fish'n Fever
Posted: 5/1/2015
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day 2015. 3 fishermen, 3 limits, using twin tail motor oil jig with herring strip, and whole
herring in 50-75 ft. of water.
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 5/19/2014
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The morning started out great, glass calm on the run out and we were on the bait instantly. After gathering up a few nice dabs we headed to work over a few of my favorite reefs in 55-70' of water.
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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: wishing4walleye
Posted: 8/10/2013
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the san juans by Jones Island and had a blast island hoping and slamming crab. Heres a look at what a full pot should look like... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnt3BzeTQf8
By: tommonroe
Posted: 10/25/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I went to crab in Padilla Bay and had no luck at all. There must have been 300-400 commercial crab pots in the area. We pulled 4 pots and none of them had more than 4 undersized cra...
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: Ian Horning
Posted: 4/13/2016
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/13/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Finally, after months away from my fishing gear in Bellingham, and with weather heating up fishing across the board, I decided to put my schoolwork and studies on hold for a couple hours in order to s...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Here's a fun little report.
I got the chance to enjoy an 85 plus degree day doing exactly what I wanted after class/homework/etc. That is, stalking the oyster clad shores of Bellingham Bay, searchi...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 5/12/2016
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got some time off to hit an optimum tide swing again!
I Made my way down to a favorite beach of mine which has yielded plenty of success in the past for a hour or two of fishing until the s...
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: 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...
