Samish Bay Bellingham fishing querry

Hi,

I am heading to Larrabee State park in Bellingham this weekend for some kayaking and was wondering what the fishing situation is.  Based on my reading of the WDFW regs it appears that Samish Bay and greater Bellingham bay is open for Salmon fishing.Any suggestions on areas to try for Salmon near Larrabee State Park?  I see Fish Point near Edison does close parts of the year for Salmon but is open now which along with its name suggest that it is a fishy area. 

Thanks,

Tomas

 Tomas, It's still probably a bit early, but you don't know unless you go. The Samish river gets a huge run of kings and a decent run of silvers later. The salmon stack up out in the bay and are unwilling to enter the river until it rains and that raises the water level and cools it down. The fish move to towards the river mouth on each incoming tide and drop back on the ebb. The bay is shallow and there is a serpentine channel thru the flats created over time by the rivers outflow. The kings tend to stack in the deeper water in the bends of the channel. We have had great luck in the past vertical jigging small darts, rotators, buzz bombs, etc. The fish here are much brighter and stay that way, for a much longer period of time than the tar babies that stack at places in south sound. Plus the average size is a lot bigger. Look at charts of the area, look at Google Earth, plus there will nearly always be a few boats around that have operators with a lot of local knowledge about navigating in the shallow waters. With the first decent rain in late July or early August the salmon move into the bay from the islands. Of course so does the net fleet.