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Title: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: lokidog on July 02, 2013, 08:03:21 AM: Lots of boats fishing Decatur-James Islands for the opener 7/1, not sure on the results as I wasn't able to get out there or spend time watching.
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: lokidog on July 02, 2013, 08:17:27 AM: Heard of an 11# king being caught there yesterday.
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Post by: Skillet on July 02, 2013, 08:27:02 AM: Also heard there were 20-25 boats at Thatcher Pass yesterday and not many nets out.
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Post by: Ripper on July 08, 2013, 10:20:50 AM: I went out on the 4th. Fisher Thatcher Pass early with all the other boats. No Luck. Then went to SW side of San Juan Island. Saw the Orca's, L-pod, No fish. Then we explored a little. We went to an area we had never been. Hit 3 lings trolling, the biggest being almost 36 inches. All were keeper sized had they been in season. I know where I'll be next year for the Ling opener. That was 3 tough releases for sure!
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: lokidog on July 08, 2013, 10:29:46 AM: Nice ling.

Kings and a coho caught of of Cypress Is, Eagle bluff yesterday... not by me (charter boats). Also a friend has caught two near Fisherman's Bay off Lopez in the last week and a half.
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Post by: Icdeadelk on July 08, 2013, 01:53:57 PM: We did ok on the 1st. Of course my Wendi had to out do me. Just like deer hunting last year. Out buy Sucia.
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Post by: Icdeadelk on July 08, 2013, 02:00:41 PM: The boys did good also on sat. Out by Blakely. Guy taking pic was the 3rd fish caught. Just to keep things good with the people who like to point things out.
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Post by: Icdeadelk on July 08, 2013, 02:01:48 PM: Oops.
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Post by: lokidog on July 08, 2013, 10:13:14 PM: Nice fish Icd. I didn't even notice any boats up that way when I was out by Black Rock. Thanks for posting.
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Post by: lokidog on July 12, 2013, 02:32:16 PM: Fished 3 1/2 hours this morning off Eagle Bluff. Saw one small fish caught, may have been a dogfish as it was thrown back. No bites for us. We were out there about 8:00. Beautiful morning on the water. Good luck everyone thisw weekend.

Fished for cabs a bit on the way home and pulled a 10lb downrigger ball out of the rocks after snagging the braid attached to it though. I think I should keep gloves in the boat though. No cabs.
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: lokidog on July 14, 2013, 05:38:40 PM: Secret Harbor this morning, no fish for us, saw one 10 lb king landed.

Went to Eagle Point with a friend and his wife for the midday. We should have limited but lost five or so at the boat and several other quick releases. Landed 10, threw back one tiny pink.

Here's my fishing calendar pose. :chuckle:
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Post by: whackmaster on July 14, 2013, 05:42:47 PM: nice job DOG :tup:
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Post by: lokidog on July 20, 2013, 10:08:59 PM: 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.... :chuckle:
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Post by: tmike on July 20, 2013, 10:33:43 PM: That's one hell of a filet job!
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Post by: lokidog on July 21, 2013, 02:00:38 PM: Quote from: tmike on July 20, 2013, 10:33:43 PM
That's one hell of a filet job!

Thanks.

Went out today with my newbie neighbor on his boat. He got to catch his first salmon. :tup: Limited in two hours, even with him knocking two of my fish off with the net. :o Pinks again, 60 feet deep was the ticket. Cohoho, the downriggers worked decently, for Scottys..... :peep:

Another neighbor fished Davis Bay on the eastside of Decatur yesterday and got, they said, a coho and a king on a copcar coho killer in 70 feet.
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: hrd2fnd on July 21, 2013, 02:23:42 PM: Quote from: lokidog on July 20, 2013, 10:08:59 PM
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.... :chuckle:
happy anniversary to you and your wife,btw nice haul
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Post by: Ripper on July 21, 2013, 04:26:38 PM: Nice job Ed, I think the wife and I will head out there next Sat. Happy anniversary.
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Post by: crow360 on July 21, 2013, 05:21:05 PM: awesome day!!!
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Post by: Kc_Kracker on July 22, 2013, 02:43:43 AM: Quote from: lokidog on July 14, 2013, 05:38:40 PM
Here's my fishing calendar pose. :chuckle:

im not into dudes but thats my kinda porn :IBCOOL: :IBCOOL: :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: lokidog on July 24, 2013, 10:31:24 PM: :chuckle:

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.
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: lokidog on July 28, 2013, 09:11:43 PM: 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. :tup:
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Post by: Smokepole on July 28, 2013, 09:35:42 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: lokidog on July 31, 2013, 10:22:23 PM: Quote from: Smokepole on July 28, 2013, 09:35:42 PM
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.
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Post by: WSU on August 01, 2013, 11:21:58 AM: That is a heck of a fillet job. But, it is still a pink and still don't want to eat it!
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: lokidog on August 04, 2013, 03:40:00 PM: This will make the fish snobs happy.... :chuckle: 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".
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: Smokepole on August 04, 2013, 05:18:50 PM: Nice! Planning another trip Tuesday. This time to get a line wet!
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: lokidog on August 13, 2013, 08:00:47 PM: 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. :chuckle:
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Post by: Smokepole on August 14, 2013, 12:09:35 AM: 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! :tup:
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Post by: WAcoueshunter on August 14, 2013, 03:30:45 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: lokidog on August 14, 2013, 05:18:25 PM: Beautiful fish WACoues! Having to release a king sucks, take me along next time..... :chuckle:

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.
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: crow360 on September 02, 2013, 08:05:29 PM: Fished off of San Juan today and landed 5 kings and one wild coho. Limited on kings. Didn't touch any humpies but the boats around us were catching pinks.
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Post by: Gobble Doc on September 02, 2013, 09:13:16 PM: Awesome!
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: lokidog on September 02, 2013, 10:08:07 PM: Nice kings, released one 1/2 inch short one yesterday, caught a few pinks and a bunch of coho, all wild. I don't understand why we have to release the wild coho when the several net boats out there are sure as heck not and if they swim 7 miles toward Deception Pass you can keep them then. :bash:
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Post by: JackOfAllTrades on September 02, 2013, 10:42:10 PM: Good news! Fish will be entering the nets on the Nooksack and Skagit soon then!

I was humpy fishin the Nook last Thursday... Had a big one hit and take line... Wern't no PINK!

-Steve
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: Smokepole on September 03, 2013, 08:27:56 AM: Nice king! Looks the weather was flat calm. You can't get no better. Son and I set out for the Shipwreck at Mukilteo at first light yesterday. Got down there & it was a zoo. Forgot my wallet, so didn't have any way to pay the launch fee. Went home & decided to fish the Skagit. We visited all of my old haunts along the south fork & then decided to take a run up to Young's Bar to get a head count on fishermen. It looked like the civil war. Found a family fishing there that had 5 or 6 rods out & the father was reeling in all the fish... with babies sleeping and the mother feeding her face. They couldn't speak much English. When I asked the kid how many he had caught, he said "five". It looked to me like they had already exceeded their limits as a group. I'm surprised there was no WDFW presence on the Skagit yesterday.

We found a private sand bar above Conway and had lots of nibbling using sand shrimp. I finally hooked one nice chrome buck and cooked him for dinner. Not bad for a humpy.
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: crow360 on September 04, 2013, 11:24:49 AM: Went yesterday off of San Juan again and couldn't keep the pinks off!! Hooked 4 while putting my gear down. Ended up with 7 pinks and one hatchery coho. Don't get how I went from catching 5 kings and no pinks to just pinks
Title: Re: Salmon report for the San Juans
Post by: lokidog on September 06, 2013, 02:02:17 PM: Nice, I prefer pinks to wild coho anyways... since I get to actually eat them. >:(

I get my boat back in about a week. Hopefully there will still be fish around.
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Post by: Smokepole on September 06, 2013, 09:19:35 PM: Great looking pink salmon. I caught one in the river the other day. It doesn't take long for them to start looking nasty. I like them out in the salt! :tup: