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By: psykh
Posted: 9/2/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/2/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Eagle Point with Chinook in mind, but we got slammed with coho, only finding one King. Ace hi flys on the Coho, but the king ticket was the Old Goat OG2 with blue / black scales.
By: motley
Posted: 7/14/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of Anacortes and fished north towards Indian village. Fish started hitting around 10:00 and bite lasted til 11:30. Fished at 93ft with green flasher and green/yellow hootchie. Managed to...
By: riverhunter
Posted: 7/15/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Caught this guy off of heins bank using red racer flasher to 42in leader og2 in blue/green/white the 2.8 size. Had to go through a dozen shakers before we got a decent fish. Ended the day with 3 nice ...
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...
By: rseas
Posted: 2/16/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/9/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Wow and I apologize. This report is for Sunday the 9th, basically a week ago. I have been up to my elbows since the first of the year. Shoot, I/we’ve been burning the candle at both ends for a year or...
By: Web77
Posted: 2/22/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/21/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Good day all, had an early off day from work so decided to head out of Washington park for a couple hours in the evening.
Left the launch at 2pm and headed over to Lopez flats as outgoing tide was...
By: rseas
Posted: 7/3/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Around my house the Marine Area 7 opener has been on the calendar since the date was announced. With the boat, gear and fresh herring strips ready we were counting hours. Unfortunately, Karen had a la...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/5/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/1/2020
Hot Spots: 0
An Epic Trip with no fish...
My son James and I decided to do an overnight trip to fish Area 7 chinook opener. We drove to Cornet Bay and moored on one of the state park floating docks. That in its...
By: rseas
Posted: 7/5/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Back to the islands. We had planned on fishing a sure thing somewhere but I woke up at 12:30 Saturday morning. Once up, I’m usually feet on the floor but I still had 4 hours before we were leaving. I ...
By: Spencer Ewing
Posted: 7/3/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Hello northwest fishing reports! I'm posting my first report today in the hope to connect and share fishing reports with my fellow Fishers. We launched out of Port Towsend on the 4th and ran up to Cor...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 7/7/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/5/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This was a 4 day boat camping trip out in the great San Juan Islands, with some fishing, shrimping and family visits mixed in. Shrimping was tough as I did not have the correct cat food (and they rea...
By: motley
Posted: 7/16/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Took the family over to Orcas and spent two days trolling the west side. Day one my youngest daughter hooked into about a 5-6lb native chinook which was released from the water. My oldest daughter cau...
By: Salmonids
Posted: 7/27/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/27/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out in the morning with a little later start than usual. Got to the rich just after sunrise. Dropped a few crab potsOn the way. Tide was coming in so hein bank was the go to spot. Felt pretty ...
By: rseas
Posted: 9/1/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/30/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, a fitting end to our local chinook fishery and one for the record books. Going to bed Saturday night I hadn’t settled on a plan for fishing Sunday. 2:00 alarm and a quick look at “Windy” and plan...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/29/2017
Species: Atlantic Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/29/2017
Hot Spots: 2
Thanks to rseas from NWFR I got to catch my first Atlantic salmon.
After hearing of the pen disaster I was curious to check these fish out first hand. So Randy graciously offered to take myself an...
By: SFCMcGan
Posted: 8/28/2017
Species: Atlantic Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/27/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Great Day on the water.. went up to Anacortes near the Fish pen that let all the Atlantic salmon get out.. lots of boats... and gill netters... anyhoo.. We got on the water at 6am.. headed out across ...
By: haverman83
Posted: 8/29/2017
Species: Atlantic Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Well decided to try out the Atlantic salmon fishery since people been getting tons of fish well tons over the weekend but I also heard they started netting on Sunday but figured why not try but boy we...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/25/2008
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went out in area 7 crabbing and salmon fishing Friday before the weekend rush. got nine keeper dungies and one real nice hatchery king (caught by my buddy Roberto, not me....but i was guiding!!!). no...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/2/2008
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to area7 south for the crab opener. spent two days out, and man, i could write a book about the whole trip, but I'll get to the goodies. 7/2...3 keeper dungies, 2 keeper red rock, 3 small C...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 7/5/2008
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
On a boat cruising trip with others, brought my big sea troller pole as bonus entertainment. No others in my party we fishing. While anchored in a bay, I still fished a whole herring off the bottom a ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/27/2004
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Rating: 2
Fished: 9/27/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Both days were socked in by heavy fog so I didn't wander out to far in my 12' aluminum boat. We fished from 6:30am until 10am both days. The first day we got 6 shakers and the second just one al...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2004
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Ling Fishing has been nothing short of Phenomenal. From 8 feet deep to 180 feet they are there in abundance with many fish over 40 inches. The key to our success has been finding some greenling ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Not much sunshine this Memorial Day weekend.....Took a quick boat ride out around the islands....While waiting for the pots to fill with shrimp, we decided to jig some herring for Ling Cod....usin...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/23/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2003
Hot Spots: 0
After the dismal fishing down South, decided to go North the next day! Missed the crack of dawn due to drive time and my inability to get up before 4:30 (grin). Launched at Washington Park at abou...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2004
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a few relaxing days on a family vacation at the scenic and laid back Lieberhaven Resort on the SE end of Orcas Island at Obstruction Pass. I spent a couple of hours each day fishing from th...
