San Juan Island Reports

I hope to make it out there next week. Anybody getting any kings?

Don't know about Kings, but my buddy reported gobs of coho jumping near the S. end of Henry Island this past weekend.

Regards.

Mike
Woodinville

Fished all last week. Fishing was slow but managed to boat a few nice kings. More kings were showing yesterday, I saw one at the dock just shy of 40 lbs. Eagle point is were most the boats were going today. Only saw one small silver caught.

Fine grain, I think what your buddy saw was sockeye, as the commercial netters were thick off Eagle Point that weekend.

I just got back from fishing the west side of San Juan (Eagle Pt) and had a good experience. I went out on Friday afternoon, got to Salmon banks about 1:30pm and picked up a couple of nice silvers within an hour or so. Then the killer whales showed up in full force. While there was a couple of them behind my boat, my right downrigger went off with a nice king, the whales didn't go after him thankfully!!! It seemed incredible to me that I was catching fish even with whales around. I picked up one more king and my son and I stopped fishing due to our limit and headed for our moorage spot up the Island at Garrison Bay. I went out the next morning and picked up one more king just outside the harbor by spieden passage and lost one big king that made a couple of nice runs, but got off. That Friday was one of my best day's fishing in the San Juans and a day that I won't forget for a long time. It was also neet to see the whales breaching all the way out of the water.