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By: shakesdabutz
Posted: 8/12/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Samish around 6:30 am. Started throwing spinnerbaits, buzzbaits and green curly tail jigs on 1/4 jig heads. Caught a few dink smallmouth on the jig at the rocky point across the lake from the ...
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...
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...
By: HewesRanger66/67
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....
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...
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...
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...
By: rappuhd
Posted: 4/27/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
After trolling for a while decided to go closer to shore and cast some for trout. The girlfriend ended up getting what I believe was a very nice cut. Unfortunately it was hooked in the eye so we had t...
By: rseas
Posted: 4/29/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Sunday morning, a couple new fishing rods to break in and not much time so we head for Lake Samish. We planned to bring the dogs so we took the truck and the Land Cruiser. The truck and boat headed fo...
By: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 4/30/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Samish is getting off to a good start. The fish are finally biting, and are very large for this early. My fish today were 12-14 inches with one being 16.3 inches and 1.49 pounds, thats GIANT for April...
By: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 5/1/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2012
Hot Spots: 1
MAN DO I LOVE LAKE SAMISH!
These fish are down right huge for May, cant wait to see what theyll look like later in the year. Went 5/9 in a hour and a half this morning. It was cold and windy so bit...
By: rappuhd
Posted: 5/14/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I promised myself if I was going to start posting I was going to include both good and bad days... so here it goes. Still trying to figure samish out, trolled from about 8 until 11 with one on the dow...
By: andywhe
Posted: 5/15/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Spent most of the day on Samish after spending the last 2 getting the boat fixed up. We hadn't fished seriously here for a year, but it's one of my favorite lakes. We got on the lake about 9, and th...
By: Jim W
Posted: 5/15/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Samish last Saturday caught 6 lost 6, fished along side the hwy from the launch, I was on the water at 7 am bite was on,
until 8:00am then not a strike after that, so I left at 9:00 am, all ...
By: burlee
Posted: 5/26/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Hit Samish early this morning. Put in just about 5 AM, just ahead of RSEAS.It was great to meet him for the first time. For the first hour, it was only perch and peamouth as we tried to get dialed in....
By: rseas
Posted: 5/27/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2012
Hot Spots: 1
The first day of a stay in town long weekend and we had the opportunity to take a family friend and disabled veteran fishing. She has a passion for life but unfortunately, in serving her country she w...
By: Fishin@Knight
Posted: 5/29/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went up to Lake Samish for the first time this year after reading some reports on the site. Trolled green wedding rings tipped with Gulp maggots on the West end of the lake with no luck. Trolled over ...
By: rappuhd
Posted: 6/1/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had a little time and figured I would get out and see if I could finally get a kokanee in the boat. Had my suzuki stolen off my boat the other night so was pleased to see the lake was glass as I only ...
By: rseas
Posted: 6/2/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2012
Hot Spots: 2
I had planned to fish Lake Samish at the crack of dawn this morning but when the alarm went off I didn’t quite get out of bed. An hour later I was up, had the coffee made and the boat ready to go. Arr...
By: burlee
Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
With the Skagit River mostly blown out, I hit Lake Samish about 6:45 for a little Kokanee action. I got there just ahead of the rush and found a friend hanging out at the ramp hoping to score a seat i...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Wow, what a great day on the water today!
My wife JoAnn and I got up at 3:30 and drove to lake Samish in search of kokanee. We arrived and had the boat in the water at 6:15. The parking lot was alr...
By: rseas
Posted: 6/4/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Well didn’t know it at the when we got up but we were due for an interesting day on the water and at the fish cleaning table. First we had planned to fish Lake Whatcom but due to a late night we didn’...
By: Idstud
Posted: 6/11/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 5am. Started just out from the launch and headed north. Fishing with my Moms boyfriend who hasnt been in a very long time and had never fished for kokanee. From reading previ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/14/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Brutal. One word sums it up. My wife and I hit the water at 5:15am with hopes high of a good morning bite. I think the low pressure front put the bite on "off" cause we had one fish brief on and that ...
By: americanmcss
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 ...
