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Posted: 6/24/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Horrible! On the water before 5:30 and couldn't find them to save my life. Lots of surface action but they looked to be small and were uninterested in our lures. Started with lead line, dodger and ...
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Posted: 7/1/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Finally caught what I thought was the elusive Kokanee. On the lake by about 6am and got the first one within ten minutes on the lake. Trolled for about an hour before we saw the second and the third...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 1
In the water at 5:30 A M, fished until 9:00 A M. caught 4 Silver Bullets, three over 15". First fish at 25', second at 30', third at 35', and forth at 45'. Trolled green Wedding Ring with 2 red hooks,...
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By: burlee
Posted: 5/31/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Yardwork was done, and a light rain had started, so I might as well go see if the Kokanee were biting. And they were just as accomdating as last trip. I started getting bit within about 5 minutes. the...
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By: burlee
Posted: 6/6/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Sunday evening and the rain had let up, so I threw my little 9 foot fish slayer in the back of the truck and off to lake Samish. Hit the water about 5:30 and start long-lining a sling blade and orange...
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By: rseas
Posted: 6/12/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We gathered up the usual kokanee gear and hit Lake Samish for a few hours this morning. There were 7 or 8 rigs in the parking lot when we arrived and two boats ahead of us in the launch line. Once lau...
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By: burlee
Posted: 6/20/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A good morning on Lake Samish. The bite wasn't as fast as it has been in past weeks, but still had a limit in the boat in just under 2 hours. Wedding rings trolled between the surface and 30 feet, wit...
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Posted: 6/20/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
hit samish around 8.pulled seps flasher with pink hoochie,cought 1 koke and one 13" trout.had lots of strikes with no hook ups.talked to a nice guy that gave me some power maggots and said he had limi...
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By: Idstud
Posted: 6/22/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We got a late start and got to the lake around 1045-11. I would like to put out a special thanks to RSEAS advice about not using the concrete launch but go to the left of it. They need to fix that t...
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By: Idstud
Posted: 7/3/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I have learned alot about the lake since I last fished. I fished Sat 26,sun 27, mon28 and Wed 30. I fished both the big side and the north small side. I fished the top and down to 40ft in about 50-...
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By: rseas
Posted: 8/21/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I fished kokanee in Lake Samish for a few hours this morning. I think that I was the one and only boat fishing kokanee. There was some sort of Bass tournament going on and as I was heading out on the ...
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By: burlee
Posted: 5/15/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
It could be a good year for Lake Samish. I tried to hit it yesterday, but had technical difficulties with the electric motor on my little Watertender 9.4. So today, with a new Minn-Kota on board, I h...
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Posted: 5/16/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to lake samish for this first time this year to see whats up with this years kokes. The bite was slow, they were jumping around but they were not on a great bite with the cold day. However, they ...
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By: Norm
Posted: 5/18/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Played with the new downrigger for a couple hrs. Lost a couple then got 4 to the boat. The wind was blowin good makin it hard at times. They were all hooked in 30-40ft of water with depts above that n...
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Posted: 6/15/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
WOW! is all i can say!!!! Lake samish was ON FIRE today. we had 10 fish limit in 2 hours, but im not kidding when i say we must have lost 10 more at the boat (forgot the net) and 20 more strikes and l...
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By: rseas
Posted: 10/10/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After reading about Toni’s recent kokanee adventures at American Lake I decided to give Lake Samish a try and see how the fall kokanee fishery is shaping up. I arrived at the ramp around 10:00 and the...
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By: rseas
Posted: 10/16/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Not a bad day. It was sunny and I had a couple hours so the boat and I headed for Lake Samish. With the boat in the water around 10:00 I head for the smaller lake end of the lake. Once I throttled do...
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Posted: 11/16/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent from 10:45A.M. to 1:30P.M. on the lake. Calm and cold. Marked fish from 10 feet to 55 feet. Trolling with leaded line, dodger/flasher, and mini-squid didn't work nor did trolling with spinner....
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By: ne14abeer
Posted: 4/17/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
It's going to take some warm weather before this lake produces kokanee with any sort of regularity. Between 4 boats there was 1 fish caught. Tried everything in the tacklebox. All kinds of slow/fast t...
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By: rappuhd
Posted: 4/19/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hello all longtime follower of the site but this is my first post. Went to Samish for about three hours and confirmed what I have seen posted, the kokenee are not active yet. Trolled all over the lake...
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By: rappuhd
Posted: 4/24/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out today hoping the warmer weather over the past couple of days would have heated up the bite.... evidently not, at least for us tonight. Trolled with wedding ring and sling blade at all differe...
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Posted: 3/11/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take advantage of the great weather we had Saturday, and headed out to Samish with my new (to me) fishing boat. We were chasing Kokanee but anything on the hook would have made for a succe...
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By: rseas
Posted: 4/14/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I had a couple hours to kill so hooked the boat up and headed for Lake Samish. First Samish trip this year and I am always a little apprehensive about heading to Samish during low traffic periods. The...
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Posted: 4/21/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/20/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Had a reasonably good time Yesterday morning on the hunt for kokes with a friend. On the water at 0630 with a light misting of rain that didn't last for too long. Started right from the boat launch ...
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By: rseas
Posted: 4/27/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to drive up to Lake Samish this morning and see how the AIS enforcement effort was going. But wait, I might as well haul the boat along just in case the program hasn’t quite made it to the l...
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