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By: nerka nailer
Posted: 6/28/2023
Species: Shrimp
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2023
Hot Spots: 0
This report is a bit late but sometimes life gets busy. I had a chance to get out to Area 7 and take the family out for spot prawns. My cousin was visiting from out of state and this was her first ti...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 9/6/2022
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/5/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Planned to hit Samish bay to try and jig for some Kings, so me and a buddy plan a 5:30 departure. Just pulling the boat out and I hear crash bang, downrigger swivel mount just broke in half and downr...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 8/1/2022
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Beat the heat on Saturday out on the water and managed to catch a couple kings as a bonus, one had to go back with too many fins, but the big one was a keeper! It was a battle to keep the lines in th...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 5/26/2022
Species: Shrimp
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2022
Hot Spots: 0
I was happy to find the spot shrimp were still where I left them last year, me and my buddy limited in three drops. Dropped the first pot at 2 and were done by 3:30 throwing back all the small ones. ...
By: rseas
Posted: 8/29/2021
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/29/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Ok gang, I’m not sure where to go with this one. On a request, Sunday I had agreed to take a friend out to learn the ropes as applicable to the Bellingham Bay Fishery. The fishery is a sub-fishery of ...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 7/17/2021
Species: Shrimp
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2021
Hot Spots: 0
The wind and small craft advisories finally allowed for the shrimping trip on Saturday after scuttling it on Friday. Launched out of Cornet bay and headed over to find a spot to drop the crab pots, f...
By: rseas
Posted: 5/16/2021
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Ok, I know that it has been ages since I posted a report. September 28th, 2020 to be exact. Unfortunately, it’s not because I’m holding out on sharing fishing information. Basically, I haven’t been fi...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 5/1/2021
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to area 7 for the lingcod opener. Unfortunately the tides were not in our favor for opening day. We went anyway and had a great time. We fished around Blakley island and a couple other spots....
By: rseas
Posted: 9/28/2020
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/28/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This report is the second day of a 2-day fish-a-polusa. It is also the second day of 2 days off in a row, a rare event this summer. Due to a unfavorable wind forecast the trip was squishy but either w...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 4n6fisher
Posted: 6/22/2020
Species: Halibut
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/19/2020
Hot Spots: 0
The best laid plans were derailed by the fog bank hanging around the south side of San Juan, so we did not hit the fishing grounds until the afternoon tide. It was quiet, only one other boat in the ...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 6/22/2020
Species: Shrimp
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/19/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Since the fog bank scrapped the morning halibut fishing we decided to go and drop some shrimp pots until fog lifted. Great decision as we were able to find an area away from the ripping current on th...
By: rseas
Posted: 6/21/2020
Species: Shrimp
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/20/2020
Hot Spots: 0
My first shrimp report! Yes, my first one and there is a reason for that, I don’t like shrimping. That said, maybe I can come to change my mind on the whole subject, they are tasty little buggers... W...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 6/9/2020
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This report is a little late but I went up to area 7 to fish for a slot limit lingcod the day before the shrimp opener. I launched in the morning with plans of heading toward new areas for me (Orcas I...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 5/30/2020
Species: Shrimp
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2020
Hot Spots: 0
I was able to make it out for the shrimp opener in Area 7. I realized I forgot my gopro so I made a cell phone video of the trip. My good friend Warren joined me for the day. It was his first time shr...
By: rseas
Posted: 5/11/2020
Species: Lingcod
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Back on the water, Mother’s Day 2020. While we usually do an event, this year we planned a Mother’s Day ling cod trip followed by a feed on the beach and beach combing. Knowing our mothers enjoy their...
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: 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...