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Area 7 6 5 King opener
« on: June 29, 2021, 09:06:28 PM »
Anyone else going out on Thursday. Can’t decide if I should hit hein or the west side San Juan getting pretty jacked.

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Re: Area 7 6 5 King opener
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2021, 06:06:05 AM »
ill be camping up on jones island july 5-7, running up from everett or seattle.
so ill be fishing area 7  :tup:

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Re: Area 7 6 5 King opener
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2021, 08:24:15 AM »
I want to try it this year, any tips on a few places to start other than finding the fleet? 

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Re: Area 7 6 5 King opener
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2021, 08:48:55 AM »
ill be camping up on jones island july 5-7, running up from everett or seattle.
so ill be fishing area 7  :tup:

Be prepared for hordes of aggressive, thieving raccoons. 

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Re: Area 7 6 5 King opener
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2021, 08:52:31 AM »
I hear raccoons make good crab bait. 

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Re: Area 7 6 5 King opener
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2021, 11:02:16 AM »
I want to try it this year, any tips on a few places to start other than finding the fleet?

Conventional wisdom is that the east side of the archipelago is better early in the month.  The west side of Cypress will get pounded by boats on whichever side of Tide Point the eddy forms on (north side on a flood and south side on an ebb), but there are some other pockets elsewhere around there that hold fish sometimes.  I think tide point is popular because it is really pronounced and easy to find, but if it is too crowded I usually try to find another point where the water is doing the same thing and fish that instead.  I.e., treat it like a river and look for the back eddy.

West side of San Juan is nice, though, because it can absorb a ton of boats and not feel too crowded. 

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Re: Area 7 6 5 King opener
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2021, 11:05:59 AM »
I'm also going to qualify my previous post by saying I have slightly better than average success in the islands but not much better than average.  The old idiom about 10% catching 90% really holds true up there.  I fish up there a few times each year but I'm admittedly definitely not in the 10%, so I'll defer to any better advice out there.

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Re: Area 7 6 5 King opener
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2021, 10:27:09 PM »
How’s fishing boys ?
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Re: Area 7 6 5 King opener
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2021, 05:43:19 AM »
Fishing on west side of San Juan has been unreal. Lots of big wilds around. Don’t think the 1400 fish quota is gonna last through the weekend.

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Re: Area 7 6 5 King opener
« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2021, 07:02:50 AM »
Many keepers or all they Canadian "wild" fish?

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Re: Area 7 6 5 King opener
« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2021, 09:55:18 AM »
Fishing on west side of San Juan has been unreal. Lots of big wilds around. Don’t think the 1400 fish quota is gonna last through the weekend.
watching for an update on the quota....shooting to head back out sunday through monday or tuesday.

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Re: Area 7 6 5 King opener
« Reply #11 on: July 07, 2021, 09:55:47 AM »
ill be camping up on jones island july 5-7, running up from everett or seattle.
so ill be fishing area 7  :tup:

Be prepared for hordes of aggressive, thieving raccoons.
only saw 1...my lab running around camp may have helped  :dunno: :chuckle:

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Re: Area 7 6 5 King opener
« Reply #12 on: July 07, 2021, 04:16:29 PM »
It closes today in 7.

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Re: Area 7 6 5 King opener
« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2021, 05:30:43 PM »
This blows can’t believe it’s over already. Got a feeling area 9 is only gonna be open for a week.

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Re: Area 7 6 5 King opener
« Reply #14 on: July 07, 2021, 05:52:46 PM »
Depends, last year the fishing was lousy and it stayed open a long time.  If it's anything decent then yeah it will be over in a few days.

 


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