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By: Ian Horning
Posted: 5/12/2016
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got some time off to hit an optimum tide swing again!
I Made my way down to a favorite beach of mine which has yielded plenty of success in the past for a hour or two of fishing until the s...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Here's a fun little report.
I got the chance to enjoy an 85 plus degree day doing exactly what I wanted after class/homework/etc. That is, stalking the oyster clad shores of Bellingham Bay, searchi...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 4/13/2016
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/13/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Finally, after months away from my fishing gear in Bellingham, and with weather heating up fishing across the board, I decided to put my schoolwork and studies on hold for a couple hours in order to s...
By: rmrauscher
Posted: 2/26/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
First time up to Area 7 and we did pretty good. About 5lb hatchery fish (pic) and about 5lb native (c&r). Also caught 6 or 8 almost keepers, close but no cigar.
Fished the Pointer Rock area with Re...
By: kurtkettel
Posted: 2/23/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/22/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Excited to get my boat back from the shop (in 4 weeks!)--re-done floor (had delaminated from a previous fix)...headed toward Salmon Bank yesterday morning...1/2 way across buddy says "hey, water comin...
By: Kgbeez
Posted: 1/11/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled the mouth of obstruction pass on the rosairo side starting around one o'clock, my friend got the first fish of the day about an half hour in after a couple missed bites,around 7lbs, after a co...
By: Jeff_e_d
Posted: 1/3/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
On the Holiday break from work and waited for the wind to die down before heading to the Juans. Started on Saturday at Lopez flats. Plenty of boats but no bait, fish or even shakers. Headed around ...
By: kurtkettel
Posted: 1/3/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/1/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Ventured out to some local Rosario Straits ebb tide fishery locations...had one good take down/run but missed it. Packed up & headed west to a lot of boats at Salmon Bank. Had fish #1 cut off by big...
By: Matt
Posted: 12/18/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I figured I would submit a report for the islands as no one has really had any real opportunities to get out due to the horrendous storm conditions we have been having through November and December. ...
By: kurtkettel
Posted: 12/1/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/1/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Couldn't resist the temptation...flew solo today as could not get another body to challenge the predicted Gale winds. Started (8:30am) at Tide Pt/Eagle Bluff--fished through high slack until 11am (hi...
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...
Posted: 8/9/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well this report is from Friday but better late than never.
My uncles and dad wanted to take our brand new family fishing boat out to try and find some early schooling pinks. I caught one off te beac...
By: cohoslayerkevin
Posted: 7/28/2015
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/27/2015
Hot Spots: 1
fished until 5 pm with a crab ring set and pulled a dozen times. 1st set got a few Dungeness none that were keepers 2 set pulled in a 7 1/2 incher nice dunge 3,4 th no keepers 6 females and 1 male jus...
By: Spaceyak1000
Posted: 7/27/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for 2-3 hours in Haro Strait west of Henry Island in my Kayak. The pink fishing was excellent. Caught 4 and kept 2. Lost a big one unhooking it in the boat. Trolled a slow bus flashe...
By: cobrar543
Posted: 7/23/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/22/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Wow, what a day. Nothing short of a world record fish would have made it an OK day. Got out late, heading out from Corrent bay lauch, thru deception pass, doing only about 15 mph and suddenly the sea...
By: aftjkm
Posted: 7/21/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Caught 3 pinks on a green flasher and green hoochie trailing herring fillet. Got the first one in a couple of minutes at about 40 ft on a down rigger. Kept going deeper all the way to 180 ft to get a ...
By: stevenb_photo
Posted: 7/20/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Stayed the weekend at Roche harbor and fished lime kiln Saturday & Sunday morning at high tide. Was targeting chinook but just couldn't get away from the pinks. They are in strong already. Tried 40 - ...
By: Onnor5
Posted: 5/27/2015
Species: Halibut
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
100ft of water with spreader bar, purple frozen herring and UV yellow squid. 4 on the boat. Mine was the biggest at 45 1/2 inches weighting about 35 lbs
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 5/10/2015
Species: Halibut
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We launched from Washington Park and started fishing in a hundred feet of water at first light. We had two in the boat by 10:30am using herring and octopus and two bags of chum. We were anchored next ...
By: nwfish
Posted: 5/4/2015
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the weekend camping on Sucia. Hardest part of the trip was coming home. Best part of the trip was being there and having no worries or concerns except what to do next. So I would give the cam...
By: woozel
Posted: 5/4/2015
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Made it out of Hilton at 0515. Got to the grounds by a little after 0600. First drop hooked a nice keeper 30'. We fished the Wall on the West side of Sucia.
By: jpjames14
Posted: 5/3/2015
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Opening weekend of boating season. Picked up one quickly Saturday evening and 2 more real quick Sunday morning, all 29-31. Caught 20+ rocks and it makes me hope that one day we might have a small li...
By: jeffmb
Posted: 5/3/2015
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for a few hours in the late afternoon on Saturday, as car troubles kept us from starting earlier. Between 3 fishermen/women, we reeled in 7 lings and 2 copper rockfish in several hours. Most ...
By: WheresDaFish
Posted: 5/2/2015
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, a buddy of mine and I decided to try out my "new-to-me" boat for lingcod on the opener out of washington park in Anacortes. Looked online and read that slack/low tide was at 10am. So we were on ...
By: Fish'n Fever
Posted: 5/1/2015
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day 2015. 3 fishermen, 3 limits, using twin tail motor oil jig with herring strip, and whole
herring in 50-75 ft. of water.