King salmon fishing in the San Juan's

PaulNBriannaLynn · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:11 pm Post subject:

If the current isnt pushing around too much and theres not a bunch of eelgrass and junk in the water, trolling the indian village close to shore is a fun spot. Thats on the NW side of Guemes island and close to Anacortes. Theres some hogs in there sometimes Thumbs Up

DuckDogTitus · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:13 pm Post subject:

the whole idea of catching salmon at all is kind of surreal after these years in pt defiance, lol.

chromer · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:32 pm Post subject:

starcrafttom · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 9:02 pm Post subject:

Just remember a few things about kings. Troll fast, 2 knots or 45 degrees on the wire. Troll on the bottom ( in most places) If your wire is down 100ft in 110 ft of wire you are NOT on bottom because of the angle of the wire. Add 15 to 20 ft at a 100ft depth. and dont be afraid to troll in 50 ft or 200ft if bait is there. Our fish last week was in 55 ft

DuckDogTitus · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:14 am Post subject:

chromer · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:11 pm Post subject:

DuckDogTitus · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 8:34 pm Post subject:

update:
friday hooked one nice salmon off eagle bluff but lost it at the boat (rookie mistake). then between friday and saturday caught SIX more dogfish between obstruction pass and pt Lawrence, but no more salmon. Saturday the weather was too nasty the first half of the day to cross Rosario so we stayed close the Blakely. that afternoon we had enough fishing and ventured over to Friday Harbor for dinner. Today we motored back to WA Park early and drove home.

in two weeks I go back with my wife, I think we may spend some time trolling along Guemes again on our way to Sucia.

starcrafttom · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 11:48 am Post subject:

Yes fishing has been slow. We fished Saturday after noon at tide point to eagle bluff on west side of cypress for one 12 king. Fished obstruction pass for nothing, then headed to Friday harbor to meet Don and have dinner. We broke down on the way and had to use the kicker to get there. More on that on another thread.

There were 4 cdorys at the dock. We must have just missed Dog. Sunday morning till 11 I was repairing the Honda then off to waldon to fish. We fished west waldon, pt doughty, Presidents channel all with out any luck. Stopped by Tide point for a hour and after a long nothing and getting real bummed out we tied into a 17 lbs king. Nice fat think fish. That was a 645 last night and we ran to Washington park and home by 9pm.

Fishing as a hole has been slow in the SJ's and around Everett. some fish are being caught but not many.

DuckDogTitus · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 11:51 am Post subject:

Tom your weekend is eerily close to mine. I'm shocked I didn't see you at Obstruction or FH. we pulled into FH probably around 3 and parked next to another red CD (a 19 I think) on the E dock. we only stayed a few hours, I wanted to be back on the water headed to Blakely with lots of time to spare and I was just showing my buddy around since he had never been to FH before.

DuckDogTitus · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:00 pm Post subject:

Tom, was that you I saw ducking in behind Canoe Island? we had an interesting motor issue about 2 miles out from FH ourselves...

redbaronace · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:18 pm Post subject:

Feels like every time we go to Friday Harbor its a c-brats gathering (5-6 boats there). Not sure if they are members here. Glad to see StarcraftTom though. We were going to play a joke on him by removing the fish from his cooler that his friend Steve said was caught earlier. Wasn't in the risking my life mood so we passed on that idea. Smile

starcrafttom · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:20 pm Post subject:

No we came into friday harbor around Brown Island at 6 to 7 pm??? We must have just missed you.

DuckDogTitus · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:20 pm Post subject:

starcrafttom · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:21 pm Post subject:

Noticed how Steve, who is a really big boy, suggested it but did not want to do it himself Wink

That's your first clue of a bad idea.

joechiro35 · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 11:45 pm Post subject: Fished in sj

Tried fishing inside at Waldron with no luck. Went near president channel and saw no action. Fished near oniell rock also with no luck. Was tough fishing this weekend.

Going to try my luck at possession