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Area 7 San Juan Islands Fishing Reports

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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/23/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/23/2002
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Got out with Tom for a great day in the San Juan. The water was flat all day long everywhere we went. Sun was out too! There wasn't much tide movement in the morning, which I think led to the l...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2002
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We went on our annual vacation to the Lieberhaven Resort at Obstruction Pass on Orcas Island from May 30th to June 4th. The fishing was surprisingly slow this year. Usually, we do real well on Gre...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/21/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2003
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Fished Lawrence point with Jim of Catchmore Charters of Anacortes, and my son. Trolled plug cut herring with downriggers right on the bottom. Caught two blackmouth by eleven am. One twelve and ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/23/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2003
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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...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2004
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2004
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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 ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2004
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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...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2004
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2004
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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...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/27/2004
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Rating: 2
Fished: 9/27/2004
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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...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/4/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/4/2005
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Roche Harbor 2005 Salmon Classic Invitational Feb 4th & 5th. TALK ABOUT SLIM PICKINS..... 80+ boats with 4 people on each boat for (2) 10 hour days and only 36 fish caught for the entire weeke...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/9/2005
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Rating: 2
Fished: 7/9/2005
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Got out on the water about 12:00 pm and planned on salmon fishing. Found out that both my down riggers couldnt be hooked up so i just messed around and jigged for a little while. Three small dogfish...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/19/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/19/2006
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I caught this 26 lb. King last week jigging off Orcas. Biggest fish yet for me. :)
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/13/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/13/2007
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With calm water and calm weather decided it was a good day for a first try at some winter blackmouth. Hit lawrence at about 9:30. Water was 46 and clear. Had one hook-up on the boat, lost it, flash...
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Posted: 6/4/2007
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2007
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Set off in the marine kayak about 1 hour past full tide, on the ebb, in the morning. An easy paddle to the point. The ebbing tidal rip runs about 60 yard off the point, heading south to cherry point, ...
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By: Moe
Posted: 6/23/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2007
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Started fishing drifting on B-Doll and hooked up just a couple of rockfish since its between seasons. Beautiful day but hardly any bites. Had a great time though with Better Half, Son in Law and two G...
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Posted: 4/11/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/11/2008
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Well, changed horses in mid stream...was going to hit partridge bank but because of the SUPER calm water decided Alden bank to change it up a bit. Needless to say, I didn't have any luck with the hai...
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Posted: 5/2/2008
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/2008
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FANTASTIC!! what an opener it was. fished the afternoon on Thursday near Stuart island. i got one 26.5" about 3 pm on a white/blue jig. my buddy only got rockfish...but that's alright. water was ...
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Posted: 5/4/2008
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Alright...back to reality for me. After a great opener in 7 north, hit 7 south today for ling. I usually don't fish 7 south, but I was there for the shrimp on Sat. (BTW, shrimp was slow, 10-12 per pul...
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Posted: 5/10/2008
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/10/2008
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another "almost a report " from me. hit it "lightly" yesterday, and pretty hard today. south end of lopez island. pretty calm, so got to explore some new territory. not much happening, couple nice...
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Posted: 5/25/2008
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2008
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My dad took me out ling fishing twice this weekend on the first day I caught a 31in,12lb ling at around 150ft on a 6 ounce redhead jig with a black rubber tail. the weird thing was the ling puked up a...
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Posted: 6/15/2008
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/15/2008
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went out hardcore sat. and Sunday. got one real nice ling to the boat on sat. (30-35) but messed up netting myself and now it swims again in 7 north... plenty of C&R rockfish and small ling (20-24), ...
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Posted: 6/25/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/25/2008
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The first thing I tried was the dock and I saw a few pile perch that must have had the I.Q. of Einstein because they refused anything I put on my 6lb line including sand worms. from their I walked to ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/2/2008
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2008
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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...
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Posted: 7/5/2008
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2008
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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 ...
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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...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/25/2008
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2008
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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...
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