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Area 7 San Juan Islands Fishing Reports
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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: 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: rseas
Posted: 9/2/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
September 1 and my first San Juan Island chinook trip of the year has come and gone. Mike of NWFR and our good friend Robbie wanted me to make another run on the Atlantic salmon that had recently esca...
By: fisherman92
Posted: 9/6/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy's dad took us out for some kings in area 7 in his new duckworth. We fished a spot with about 80 other boats. Used coho killers behind flashers. Had a good one in the morning then nothing til...
By: scraig1962
Posted: 9/17/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Caught this 14lb chinook on the westside of Cypress. Trolled Luhr Jensen white uv/glow flashers and coho killers in herring aide and the two face cookies and cream colors. 100ft of wire out in 150 f...
By: FastActionGS
Posted: 1/3/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
what an incredible day on the water.
well folks, I don't guide on the salt (yet...), but i do love to fish it. today was an absolute blast. I went out to Area 7 for the first time today, and man w...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Web77
Posted: 2/12/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/12/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Left coronet bay at about 640 this morning, headed out to Lopez flats. Had a calm day and an outgoing tide from 7am to 1pm, definitely good ingredients to a salmon catching recipe. I set up near Decat...
