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By: americanmcss
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...
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,...
By: rappuhd
Posted: 1/21/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Have not been doing real well on the rivers since they are so low so decided to try samish for some winter perch. Did real good during the fall for them and figured if we could find them could get a n...
By: americanmcss
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...
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...
By: americanmcss
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 ...
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...
By: burlee
Posted: 5/11/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Samish kokanee seem to be running a little hot and cold so far this spring. Wednesday was 2 limits in less than 2 hrs, today was 1 limit in 3 + hours. The fish are running smaller than last year, but ...
By: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 5/11/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Samish has been fishing great, with today being the only slowish day, but still limited around 9am. Last saturday got a solo limit by 8am, sunday 2 person limit by 6:30am. Wednesday 2 person limit by ...
By: Norm
Posted: 5/22/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to quit being lazy and get out and do some fishing. Went up sat. morning and forgot the downrigger balls. flat lined a couple rods and ended up getting 4 to the boat and loosing a few. Decided...
By: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 5/22/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Was bored this afternoon so my buddy and I decided to head to samish around 5pm because the weather looked decent. Got out off the boatlaunch and tried to set my gear at 35 feet but hooked up dropping...
By: Norm
Posted: 5/24/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The morning was a little on the slow side. Started out at 25ft and 45ft. Nothing going on so dropped the one at 25 down to 35ft and picked up the first fish. All the fish after that came from 45ft-55f...
By: rappuhd
Posted: 5/30/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My class was canceled today so me and a buddy decided to go out and try and find some nice perch. Took a little time to find them but once we did was non stop action until we ran out of worms. Caught ...
By: Norm
Posted: 5/31/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
For some reason I felt today was going to be a bad day. Started getting that feeling after loosing the first 8 fish in a row. Then a downrigger decided to slide out of its mount and into the drink Af...
By: Mharri333
Posted: 6/3/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Samish Saturday and Sunday. Limit Saturday by 8am and Sunday by 7. Fish are more spread out than earlier but plentiful. One fish was 14 plus inches which was the largest. Rough after fishing Ch...
By: americanmcss
Posted: 6/17/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This trip really should be listed as a 3+ or 4- but I guess it wasn't that great in the scheme of things. We were on the lake shortly after 4:00am, one other boat on the water. We decided to forgo u...
By: americanmcss
Posted: 7/8/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers three different trips over two days of fishing. We started at just after 4:00am Saturday morning. First boat on the lake. It was the maiden voyage for my buddies fishing boat, an...
By: americanmcss
Posted: 3/28/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This post is a few weeks old already but was having issues with my account.
Fished Samish for Kokes just to get the gear wet basically. It can be done if you are in the right place at the right ...
By: DjButler
Posted: 6/15/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well this was a day of fishing that was unexpected. I happened to be in Bellingham for graduation at WWU for the weekend. As I was driving back down I decided to stop at Samish last minute. I bought a...
By: rseas
Posted: 8/25/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/24/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Sunday I had planned to fish Lake Stevens with my good buddy Tony but as luck may have it a trip that far south was not in the cards. Then after an on again off again on again (kids…) plan to fish Lak...
By: rseas
Posted: 11/2/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Woo-hoo, another day on the water! After a really busy Saturday, Sunday morning it looked as though it would be a repeat of Saturday. But as luck may have it the fish gods were smiling and I got to fi...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/20/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 9:30am till about 12:30 when the wind made it to difficult to troll. Fish caught in 5-12 ft off the downrigger in 60-70 ft of water. Fished straight out from launch in the middle of the l...
By: cohoslayerkevin
Posted: 5/19/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took the boat out today to lake Samish Got there around 7:30 am and was only a few boats. One fella just pulled out and had a limit of 8 to 10 inchers. heard the fishing was hot . started trolling an...
By: rseas
Posted: 5/8/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Saturday was a busy one. I rolled out of bed early and got to the chores that had eluded me during the week. After the chores were done I decided to take the Whatcom County AIS (Aquatic Invasive Speci...
By: DjButler
Posted: 5/8/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
What a fantastic way to end a weekend get away in Bellingham. Weather was perfect and fishing was even better. I gave my buddy Vanhine a call to see if I could convince him to bring his boat out to Sa...
