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Area 7 San Juan Islands Fishing Reports
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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: c_saeteurn
Posted: 9/7/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
it was a good labor day weekend with some friends
hit area 7 in guemes island
crabbed the 4th and the 5th.
lines were from 85-95 feet
using salmon, flounder, cod, ect.
dropped the pots and let it...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/3/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
aug,12=5 aug,14=5 aug, 18=3 aug,19=5 aug,21=5 aug,26=3 aug,27=5 aug,28=5 sep,02=5 sep,03=5 sep,04=5 sep,05=3 total dungeness crabs catch=54
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/3/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
on sept, 02=5 on sept,04=5 total dungeness crabs catch=10
By: rseas
Posted: 7/15/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We decided to do the crab opener in marine area 7 East. We arrived at the ramp in Larrabee State Park around 2:30 pm and found the ramp high and dry. We ended waiting a couple hours for the tide to ge...
By: F'Sean
Posted: 7/20/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Dropped my knew pot next to freeman island and let it sit for a couple hours. Pulled up two redrocks one of which was good sized. 6 3/4in. The other was normal, 5 3/4in. Not the best day of crabbing I...
Posted: 9/1/2019
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/31/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Pot picking thieves, that is how I would describe crabbing in the birch point area. It should be an alert when you see guys wearing side arms that are launching to go crabbing. I’m not an anti gun t...
By: kodacachers
Posted: 7/31/2018
Species: Crab
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2018
Hot Spots: 1
We were mostly lounging at Fossil Bay on Sucia Island. Dropped the pot in 12 feet of water while on the mooring buoy. No Dungeness but some fairly good red rock crab on each pull. We only wanted on...
By: F'Sean
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Copper Rockfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to beachhaven and fished for 4 days on the incoming tide. Caught 25. (5 lings, 19 coppers, and a kelp greenling.) All fish were carefully released. Jigged them up on 1 ounce point wilson darts. ...
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: 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: 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: hiroshi
Posted: 9/5/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Eagle Point is really putting out some nice coho's around 24 inches. Monday, fished for about 1.5 hours, got 3 fish and Tuesday again about 1.5 hours and got 3 again. Didn't fish close to shore like...
By: rseas
Posted: 10/2/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/27/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Right up front I’ll apologize for the late report. I’m retired and I have no idea why my spare time is so limited. Thursday, I had agreed to help a friend find and recover a kicker motor that had jump...
By: rseas
Posted: 9/28/2020
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/28/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This report is the second day of a 2-day fish-a-polusa. It is also the second day of 2 days off in a row, a rare event this summer. Due to a unfavorable wind forecast the trip was squishy but either w...
By: spokey9
Posted: 5/28/2017
Species: Clams
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The family and I hit Birch Bay State Park for the first time today. Since the wdfw page said there were oysters and our usual beach doesn't. Sadly I didn't see any at Birch either. The wife and I got ...
By: _DH_
Posted: 8/30/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Indian village Sunday morning from around 9:00 to 1:00. Trolled mostly green flashers with a red stripe followed by whole anchovy in a bloody nose teaser head. We did switch it up a little tryi...
By: rseas
Posted: 9/6/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Labor day weekend 2016!
Been a few to many weeks since we got out on the water. Regarding the fishing; this report is definitely a 1 but to be fair after sleeping in 3 mornings in a row (we had an ...
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: bottombarrel
Posted: 4/24/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/21/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Well Friday was the last day for blackmouth in area 7 and I have to say it was a great day. I have been utilizing this page for months researching and asking questions and it definitely paid off. Frid...
By: kurtkettel
Posted: 5/1/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Giving this a 5 only because the fish was huge & the run was epic....other than that, very slow day! Fished solo today with all my friends (literally nobody could go today). Had a solid day yesterday...
By: bottombarrel
Posted: 3/5/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/4/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Area 7 Sunday morning on the slack tide with 2 friends and boy did we find the fish. Made our first lap and hit a 9lber less than 5 min in. after a few shakers we started the troll over and BAM...
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: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/2/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2017
Hot Spots: 2
More San Juan Island adventures!
After Tuesday’s Atlantic Salmon trip to Cypress Island rseas suggested that on Friday we try for some Chinook Salmon on the west side of San Juan Island. He had a ...
