Salmon report for the San Juans

[hrd2fnd]

Went out today for our anniversary, a bit windy but we got a four fish and had a great Orca show go by us.  Eagle Point, San Juan, 3-6 pm, 60 and 80 feet with green/blue hoochies.  Lost about four on a watermelon coho killer before switching it out, all fish hit moiving against the current.

BTW, check out the second pic and try to tell me this looks like crap fish and you wouldn't eat it....   

happy anniversary to you and your wife,btw nice haul

[Ripper]

Nice job Ed, I think the wife and I will head out there next Sat. Happy anniversary.

[crow360]

awesome day!!!

[Kc_Kracker]

Here's my fishing calendar pose.   

im not into dudes but thats my kinda porn   

[lokidog]

 

Monday I fished for a couple hours on the south side of Thatcher Pass off Decatur.  I released a 14 inch King and saw two guys in one boat land a 13 and a 17 pounder.  The guy on the third boat out there said he lost a nice one earlier.  We were fishing the incoming tide about an hour before slack.

[lokidog]

Four hours off Eagle Point this morning, 7-11 and only one pink in the boat.  We had five or six other hits but no hook ups.  Saw very few fish being caught on other boats either.  Long way to go for one fish.     Tasted good though.   

[Smokepole]

Well that's not the news I wanted to hear, since we're headed up there tomorrow.  Gonna drop off some pots first, then see if we can boat a fish or two at Eagle Pt.  Hopefully we'll hit it right.

[lokidog]

Well that's not the news I wanted to hear, since we're headed up there tomorrow.  Gonna drop off some pots first, then see if we can boat a fish or two at Eagle Pt.  Hopefully we'll hit it right.

How did you guys do?  I heard some others did really well this same morning though.

Went out yesterday and we landed five for five hits, four were on our shallow diveplane and one was at 50 feet on the downrigger.  All on pink hoochies.  I switched out to smaller hooks 3/0 and didn't lose a fish.  Too bad the engine died as we were leaving to come home.

[WSU]

That is a heck of a fillet job.  But, it is still a pink and still don't want to eat it!

[lokidog]

This will make the fish snobs happy....     Went out on my neighbor's boat and we managed to get him his first king.  Fish was 29 3/4" fork length, had no scale and didn't think about measuring girth before fileting him.  I guessed he was about 15 pounds.

Caught in 100-105 ft, outgoing tide/maybe start of slack, trolling with the current, "cop car" coho killer with about 70" leader, green dodger, downrigger said 98'. One guy said they had landed one earlier.

I caught the two smallest lings I have ever landed, neither was over 12".

[Smokepole]

Nice!  Planning another trip Tuesday.  This time to get a line wet!

[lokidog]

Smokepole, how'd you do?

My friend on Lopez limited this morning for two of them off Eagle Point, one was a nice coho.  I'm heading out with him tomorrow, guess I can't bad mouth his Force outboard any more since my Honda and my Yamaha are down.   

[Smokepole]

Had one hit, but lost it.  Fished Deepwater bay since it was so choppy over at Eagle Point.  Hard for me to troll in the snot.  Did some fishing for pinks down in Mukilteo yesterday, and got two.

Let me know when the pinks come in good up there.  I'd much rather fish my home turf.  Maybe even try the west side of Lummi. 

Good luck tomorrow!

[WAcoueshunter]

I fished the Eagle Point area over the weekend.  Fishing solo, caught six fish (two kings and four pinks) over about six hours of total fishing time between Friday and Monday.  Lost a few other pinks.  Water was a little "sporty" at times for my 15' boat (particularly Sunday!), so didn't get out as much as I would have liked.  But when I could get out it was pretty good.  My suggestion - don't feel like you need to fish right on the point with all the other boats.

[lokidog]

Beautiful fish WACoues!  Having to release a king sucks, take me along next time.....   

We got out about 9:30 this morning.  Caught a few pinks early on and then it just kind of died, probably this low pressure moving in.  We did land a nice 15 lb king and lost another, smaller than the other.  Lots of boats.  Our king was right off the point 100 ft deep in 250 nor so of water.  The other king hit at 60 feet.

There was a huge amount of bait out there but very few birds working it.  Seemed most of it was about 2 to 3 inches long.