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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: 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: MarkFromSea
Posted: 7/21/2011
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Awesome crabbing! Made the approx 35 mile boat ride from Anacortes to somewhere near the north end of San Juan Island, thurs Jul 14. Set up camp on shore, and scoped out where we would be dropping p...
By: calico68
Posted: 8/12/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this afternoon right off west beach in Deception Pass beach. Fishing was not great but when you hook a fish it was good. I hook one that went 8.3 pounds. That was a fat pink. Buzz bombs was the...
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 ...
By: manager1
Posted: 5/23/2012
Species: Halibut
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A slow day. It took me a while but i caught a 51.6LB Halibut.
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: tomalanwatson
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Shrimp
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We headed out of Anacortes on Saturday morning around 900am for opening morning of shrimp season. We figured it would be really busy right at 8am so we thought we take our time. We dropped our pots ju...
By: jpjames14
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got a later start Sunday morning. Headed to my favorite hole in which I knew would produce well. Those of you who know the islands well probably could figure it out based on the picture. We dropped...
By: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 5/12/2013
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for lings first time this year! Went with 3 guys and we killed our 4 lingcod and a limit of greenling as well. Lingcod took herring and went 26.5 27 30 and 35 inches! We fished around the suc...
By: snorider
Posted: 5/19/2013
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got out to try for some lings. Launched at Washington park in anacortes. It was packed. We were also trying out the new boat this day. Got it in a trade and have been fixing things for 2 years...
By: snorider
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Yep, so went for lingcod saturday. We weren't having much luck. Just a few rockfish but nothing else. Not even a greenling or an undersized Ling. Then in about 60 ft of water Pat got another snag. He...
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 ...
By: jpjames14
Posted: 8/6/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Fished last weekend in the San Juans. Focused our efforts on kings Saturday, inside, and only landed a "prince" about 4-5 pounds. I let it go. Other than that, couldn't keep the dogfish off my gear...
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: jpjames14
Posted: 8/15/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great honeymoon... yes I said honeymoon :) Took the new wife out to Friday Harbor, then to Roche for 3 days on the boat. On the way back from Roche we spent some time fishing pinks. I got her,...
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: 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: 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: 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: truckman1966
Posted: 1/22/2014
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Well we waited patiently to let the WDFW let us keep the pinks we saw rolling and jumping about a week earlier, so the first weekend after MA7E/Bellingham Bay was open, I took a couple buddies and my ...
