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Posted: 7/24/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Thatcher/Lopez the last few mornings/evenings. Trolled standard flasher hoochie/coho killer. No salmon. I was out also last week, and heard of a few decent fish caught. This week...not...
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: 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: 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: wintersteelhead
Posted: 2/21/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The morning tides set up great for mooching so we set up on our drift and proceeded to fish. soon after starting, we started picking up Lings. We landed 4 before we hooked up with a pig. Took Carl 15 ...
By: TomD
Posted: 2/21/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished in the San Juans with TomS. We launched at Washington Park and wanted to start in Thatcher Pass for the outgoing tide. It was pretty windy outside and most of the boats tucked in closer to th...
By: wintersteelhead
Posted: 3/27/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Bad news for the Anacortes derby this weekend. We fished Lovers Rock on the first tide with no fish hooked or marked. Then on the incoming tide moved to Point Doughty and spoke to one lucky guy with o...
Posted: 7/31/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Just a quick report....this is two in a row for me now being skunked....
Hit Point Lawrence and Peavine/Obstuction Pass. Was gunning for the kings, of course. No luck. water was EXTREMELY calm.....
By: G-Man
Posted: 8/29/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First a little report on the so called "launch" at Birch Bay State Park. The launch is really for car toppers, kayaks and canoes only. You could probably launch a small boat on a trailer but you wil...
Posted: 9/4/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I HAD to get out. It's been almost a month for me on the saltchuck. Primarily going for some late season crab, but while we were at it, might as well jig for some salmon, right?? Ended up with two ...
By: tarwegian
Posted: 2/2/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I headed out to Area 7 early for my first and long awaited day of Blackmouth fishing this year. I launched out of Washington Park, 8 bucks ouch, but its close to the places I like to fish. I spent mo...
Posted: 2/7/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
me and my paps went out for blackmouth this morning. we got out kinda late and started fishing at 930. after trying tide point and point Lowrance we got bored and went to a kelp bed for greenling. we ...
Posted: 7/10/2008
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went out for a few hours chasing crab and Chinook. 10-15 knot wind, clear skies. had a little luck with both. got three keeper RR at 4:30pm slack. also three 6-61/8 male dungies...back they went. n...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 8/1/2022
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Beat the heat on Saturday out on the water and managed to catch a couple kings as a bonus, one had to go back with too many fins, but the big one was a keeper! It was a battle to keep the lines in th...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 9/6/2022
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/5/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Planned to hit Samish bay to try and jig for some Kings, so me and a buddy plan a 5:30 departure. Just pulling the boat out and I hear crash bang, downrigger swivel mount just broke in half and downr...
By: rseas
Posted: 8/29/2021
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/29/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Ok gang, I’m not sure where to go with this one. On a request, Sunday I had agreed to take a friend out to learn the ropes as applicable to the Bellingham Bay Fishery. The fishery is a sub-fishery of ...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 3/21/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/21/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Finally starting to gain a little bit of confidence in my new-to-me boat, so today we swapped the Kokanee gear for Salmon Gear and headed to the San Juan Islands. This was my first time fishing in th...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 3/25/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/24/2019
Hot Spots: 0
After driving to anacortes and struggling to buy a bite or calm water Thursday, I got a tip to go North. We had a much shorter car ride and much longer boat ride as we launched at Squalicum around 7:...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 3/31/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/31/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for 3 days of fishing this weekend (Friday, Saturday, Sunday). We burned a lot of fuel running from Squalicum Harbor each day, but I feel like I finally did some good break-in with my ...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 4/15/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/12/2019
Hot Spots: 0
It was my last day fishing Area 7 Blackmouth for the year. Thanks to a recent boat purchase I got to enjoy the last month of the season and learn the Northern San Juans in preparation for summer Seas...
By: Drhouseofauto
Posted: 7/6/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2019
Hot Spots: 0
The mighty hunters set off at 330 in the morning in search of food . Kid forgot licsence and so set out again at four. Launched at deception pass and arrived at eagle point for end of morning bite. Ro...
By: rseas
Posted: 7/22/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/21/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Work, work, work, fish, work, work, work… seems to be the flow of my summer. You would think that I would sleep in on one of my few days off. Nooooo, Sunday we were up at 1:30 for a 3:00 launch at Cor...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 7/23/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/20/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This is actually for a three day boat camping trip to San Juan's for the 20-22nd, we anchored one night in Garrison Harbor and the next night in Reid Harbor. Fishing was tough and slow all three days...
By: afk
Posted: 8/2/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/1/2018
Hot Spots: 0
A huge shout out to rmrsuscher of this site for all of his help! We fished off of Eagle Cliffs for the first time and were rewarded well. We had fished here the day before as well as off of Indian Vil...
