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Area 7 San Juan Islands Fishing Reports
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By: Dvndan
Posted: 2/8/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Indian Village on an Ebb tide. Had a couple hook ups (shakers). Then got a 12 lb. Blackmouth using a Green red racer flasher and Herring aide with a tail waggler. We were in 100 feet of water a...
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...
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: 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: 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 ...
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: 4n6fisher
Posted: 8/29/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I was up in the San Juan's testing out the new (to me boat), '78 Glasply cuddy, while the boat ran great cannot say the same for fishing. Tried for Chinook on Sunday, but just ended up losing the dow...
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: psykh
Posted: 8/26/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to help reduce the Atlantic numbers. Great day out fishing, these things are hogs. Saw tons of boats out, but our boat had more action than most. Great day overall.
By: lintriculus17
Posted: 8/4/2017
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/31/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Area 7 South, West side of Blakely Island... very good day two days in a row for Dungeness! Dropped pots in about 80' of water before high tide and a ~5 hour soak got us limits both days!
By: samr
Posted: 7/31/2017
Species: Crab
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We launched from the Squalicum Harbor boat launch and cruised out into Bellingham Bay. We placed pots on the south end of the bay and let them soak for approximately 2 hours. Upon return we pulled u...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 7/18/2017
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
First time out crabbing in my new boat. We headed out to bellingham bay and got the pots set just before noon and by 4pm we were off the water with our 3 limits and we even had to throw some keepers ...
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: steepanddeep
Posted: 5/21/2017
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Made us work for our fish today! Caught this 36" slab right off the bat this morning. A couple of runs , including trying to break me off in the rocks. Patience paid off as we worked it free and ...
By: salmonkiller
Posted: 5/15/2017
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Stayed the weekend at Washington Park. We fished Cattle point area and got one keeper. Released 1 under sized and several other rock fish.
By: BentRod
Posted: 5/8/2017
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Day 2 of the three day fishing trip.
Halibut was closed for Friday and the weather windy/rainy, so took the boat up through the shelter of the San Juans looking for Lingcod. Fished various locatio...
By: Racer Ron
Posted: 5/5/2017
Species: Halibut
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished several popular north end spots to keep away from fog and crowds in the South end. Drifted spreader bars with squid, salmon bellies. no takers. Near a number of other boats during day , did ...
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: Ian Horning
Posted: 3/31/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/30/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This isn't so much a report for Area 7 as it is the greater NW Washington region. For those looking to stretch the legs and shake off the cabin fever, "springtime" is here and the opportunities at our...
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: _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: nvan
Posted: 8/23/2016
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I spent a great week in the San Juan Islands last week with family and friends, and with the exception of no salmon to be found, it was fabulous. We started out in Anacortes crabbing. Sat...
By: Salilsh
Posted: 7/26/2016
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Caught about a dozen keepers last weekend on chicken legs. It was wall to wall crab buoy's but did okay regardless, hope everyone else did as well.