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By: jpjames14
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got a later start Sunday morning. Headed to my favorite hole in which I knew would produce well. Those of you who know the islands well probably could figure it out based on the picture. We dropped...
By: tomalanwatson
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Shrimp
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We headed out of Anacortes on Saturday morning around 900am for opening morning of shrimp season. We figured it would be really busy right at 8am so we thought we take our time. We dropped our pots ju...
By: tommonroe
Posted: 10/25/2012
Species: Crab
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I went to crab in Padilla Bay and had no luck at all. There must have been 300-400 commercial crab pots in the area. We pulled 4 pots and none of them had more than 4 undersized cra...
By: manager1
Posted: 5/23/2012
Species: Halibut
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A slow day. It took me a while but i caught a 51.6LB Halibut.
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: calico68
Posted: 8/12/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this afternoon right off west beach in Deception Pass beach. Fishing was not great but when you hook a fish it was good. I hook one that went 8.3 pounds. That was a fat pink. Buzz bombs was the...
By: MarkFromSea
Posted: 7/21/2011
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Awesome crabbing! Made the approx 35 mile boat ride from Anacortes to somewhere near the north end of San Juan Island, thurs Jul 14. Set up camp on shore, and scoped out where we would be dropping p...
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: Matt
Posted: 5/22/2011
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished are 7 this weekend with WAlakes members Bawk Bawk and Sickbayer out of Sickbayer's boat. We launched at Bellingham around 10:00am and had lines in the water at South Lummi at 10:30am, first li...
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 5/13/2011
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Another beautiful day on the water. Started fishing about 8:30am as outgoing tide was finishing up. Drifted with current in about 80-125 feet. On the second bounce of the first time down just afte...
By: redadams
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
lingcod fishing sunday good time had by all.hooked 18 lings kept 2 rest too small put them back to grow-up for next year.kept 1 at 34 in and 1 at 35 in any thing smaller let it go.all-so kept 2 cabezo...
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to Orcas for opening day. Got there in the morning as the tide was just finishing it's outgoing flow. Caught and released quite a few small lings and a few rockfish. Did not see anyone doing...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/3/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
on sept, 02=5 on sept,04=5 total dungeness crabs catch=10
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/3/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
aug,12=5 aug,14=5 aug, 18=3 aug,19=5 aug,21=5 aug,26=3 aug,27=5 aug,28=5 sep,02=5 sep,03=5 sep,04=5 sep,05=3 total dungeness crabs catch=54
By: c_saeteurn
Posted: 9/7/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
it was a good labor day weekend with some friends
hit area 7 in guemes island
crabbed the 4th and the 5th.
lines were from 85-95 feet
using salmon, flounder, cod, ect.
dropped the pots and let it...
By: VA TrOuTsLaYeR
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water around 10 am. Lost 2 fish. One being around 25 to 30 pounds. Caught this 21 pound hatchery king around 2 pm. My first king and had a great day on the water.
By: reigndawgs
Posted: 7/27/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We threw everything at them. Saw a bunch of Kings actually boiling up at the surface but they were not interested in what we had to offer.
By: F'Sean
Posted: 7/20/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Dropped my knew pot next to freeman island and let it sit for a couple hours. Pulled up two redrocks one of which was good sized. 6 3/4in. The other was normal, 5 3/4in. Not the best day of crabbing I...
By: F'Sean
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Copper Rockfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to beachhaven and fished for 4 days on the incoming tide. Caught 25. (5 lings, 19 coppers, and a kelp greenling.) All fish were carefully released. Jigged them up on 1 ounce point wilson darts. ...
By: rseas
Posted: 7/15/2010
Species: Crab
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We decided to do the crab opener in marine area 7 East. We arrived at the ramp in Larrabee State Park around 2:30 pm and found the ramp high and dry. We ended waiting a couple hours for the tide to ge...
By: wintersteelhead
Posted: 7/6/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the San Juans with the Cooter and finally found some good fish. Fishing was slow, to say the least. We found the first fish (17lbs) on an hour after the incoming exchange just north of Tide Point....
By: wintersteelhead
Posted: 7/3/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a difference a day makes. Matador and I hit the water at first light only to find the fish I saw the day before, had moved on. We fished Thatcher, Tide point, and several other spots. I think we ...
By: wintersteelhead
Posted: 7/1/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The opener in the islands was less than spectacular, however, dad and I got our one fish limits. Fished Thatcher Pass for our fish. Neither were big (13 & 9) but both were adult migratory fish. Saw lo...
By: huricandan
Posted: 6/16/2010
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My Pops, Bro, and I took the boat out of Orcas to Sucia Island to get in on the last weekend of Lingcod Season, and we had a blast. We caught quite a bit of smaller lings and some decent size rockfish...
By: huricandan
Posted: 6/16/2010
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all around Sucia Island on the last weekend of Lingcod Season. We were constantly catching little lings and rock fish. My Pops caught a legal 26 incher on saturday in about 90 feet of water on ...