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Area 7 San Juan Islands Fishing Reports
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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: 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: 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!
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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: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 5/22/2014
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Dad had some time to fish today, so I got him up and headed out on a beautiful morning to start testing a few new features to the boat before fishing on Vancouver Island this summer, including the bra...
By: thefishwhisperer
Posted: 5/26/2014
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Left sandy point around 1:20 and went out to Matia with my bro. Fished a variety of jigs, first drop my bro got a nice kelp greenling and I hooked up on a dandy ling. This was good of course but as I ...
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: 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: 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: 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: WheresDaFish
Posted: 5/2/2015
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, a buddy of mine and I decided to try out my "new-to-me" boat for lingcod on the opener out of washington park in Anacortes. Looked online and read that slack/low tide was at 10am. So we were on ...
By: jeffmb
Posted: 5/3/2015
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for a few hours in the late afternoon on Saturday, as car troubles kept us from starting earlier. Between 3 fishermen/women, we reeled in 7 lings and 2 copper rockfish in several hours. Most ...
By: jpjames14
Posted: 5/3/2015
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Opening weekend of boating season. Picked up one quickly Saturday evening and 2 more real quick Sunday morning, all 29-31. Caught 20+ rocks and it makes me hope that one day we might have a small li...
By: woozel
Posted: 5/4/2015
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Made it out of Hilton at 0515. Got to the grounds by a little after 0600. First drop hooked a nice keeper 30'. We fished the Wall on the West side of Sucia.
By: nwfish
Posted: 5/4/2015
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the weekend camping on Sucia. Hardest part of the trip was coming home. Best part of the trip was being there and having no worries or concerns except what to do next. So I would give the cam...
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: 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 - ...
By: aftjkm
Posted: 7/21/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Caught 3 pinks on a green flasher and green hoochie trailing herring fillet. Got the first one in a couple of minutes at about 40 ft on a down rigger. Kept going deeper all the way to 180 ft to get a ...
By: cobrar543
Posted: 7/23/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/22/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Wow, what a day. Nothing short of a world record fish would have made it an OK day. Got out late, heading out from Corrent bay lauch, thru deception pass, doing only about 15 mph and suddenly the sea...
By: Spaceyak1000
Posted: 7/27/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for 2-3 hours in Haro Strait west of Henry Island in my Kayak. The pink fishing was excellent. Caught 4 and kept 2. Lost a big one unhooking it in the boat. Trolled a slow bus flashe...
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...
Posted: 8/9/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well this report is from Friday but better late than never.
My uncles and dad wanted to take our brand new family fishing boat out to try and find some early schooling pinks. I caught one off te beac...
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...
