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Area 7 San Juan Islands Fishing Reports
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By: rseas
Posted: 5/5/2018
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Holy smokes we’re on a roll, 3 trips in less than a week! As a last-minute thought; Friday afternoon, we decided that Saturday morning we were going to splash the boat at the Squalicum Harbor ramp in ...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 6/9/2020
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This report is a little late but I went up to area 7 to fish for a slot limit lingcod the day before the shrimp opener. I launched in the morning with plans of heading toward new areas for me (Orcas I...
By: rseas
Posted: 5/11/2020
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Back on the water, Mother’s Day 2020. While we usually do an event, this year we planned a Mother’s Day ling cod trip followed by a feed on the beach and beach combing. Knowing our mothers enjoy their...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 5/1/2021
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to area 7 for the lingcod opener. Unfortunately the tides were not in our favor for opening day. We went anyway and had a great time. We fished around Blakley island and a couple other spots....
By: rseas
Posted: 5/16/2021
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Ok, I know that it has been ages since I posted a report. September 28th, 2020 to be exact. Unfortunately, it’s not because I’m holding out on sharing fishing information. Basically, I haven’t been fi...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 6/22/2020
Species: Halibut
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/19/2020
Hot Spots: 0
The best laid plans were derailed by the fog bank hanging around the south side of San Juan, so we did not hit the fishing grounds until the afternoon tide. It was quiet, only one other boat in the ...
By: Racer Ron
Posted: 5/5/2017
Species: Halibut
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished several popular north end spots to keep away from fog and crowds in the South end. Drifted spreader bars with squid, salmon bellies. no takers. Near a number of other boats during day , did ...
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 5/10/2015
Species: Halibut
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We launched from Washington Park and started fishing in a hundred feet of water at first light. We had two in the boat by 10:30am using herring and octopus and two bags of chum. We were anchored next ...
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: TomD
Posted: 5/10/2010
Species: Halibut
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
TomS joined me, so we ran to Hein Bank to give it a try. Not quite so many trailers as Friday, but still had to park outside on the road. A bit bumpy getting out there, then the water/wind settled d...
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: wintersteelhead
Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Halibut
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Carl, Vince and I fished Middle Bank on Saturday. We Started fishing in 65 ft of water to get a feel for the drift, hoping to get everyone fishing right by the time we hit 90 ft. At 75 ft, Vince had a...
By: jake_k
Posted: 4/4/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished at boulevard park in Bellingham from 430 to about 630. No bites. I drove down the larrabee state park that that area looks much more like a cutthroat area. I was throwing a small silver baitfis...
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: Ian Horning
Posted: 3/31/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/30/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This isn't so much a report for Area 7 as it is the greater NW Washington region. For those looking to stretch the legs and shake off the cabin fever, "springtime" is here and the opportunities at our...
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...
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: 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: 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...
