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By: JoshH
Posted: 5/27/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to try Whatcom for the first time. I launched from the South launch around 6am. Soon as I got the Hobie out past the buoy markers I dropped my line in the water. It was odd kokanee fishing wit...
By: JoshH
Posted: 8/16/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/15/2020
Hot Spots: 1
Met my brother at the south end launch of Lake Whatcom to fish kokanee in the Hobie's. I like to get up to Whatcom at least once a year, while the kokanee are small, the action is always good and the ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/1/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2021
Hot Spots: 2
I'd heard about the kokanee on this lake being a source for kokanee fry throughout Washington and was interested to give it a try. With rseas on board and NWFR writer Hanna Pennebaker and film assista...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 5/12/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2019
Hot Spots: 0
After a short weeknight trip two nights before when my friend and i caught 16 keepers in just over 2 hours my buddy and i were pretty confident we had Whatcom dialed in. Friday morning i needed to be...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 6/21/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/20/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the weeknights of having lake whatcom to myself are gone. I realized as soon as I pulled in that things were different, with 80+ degree weather and the kids out of school the beach was buzzing ...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 7/8/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
After a long day of losing Kokanee all you can do is laugh and shake your head.
On Wednesday (4th of July) I took advantage of the new kokanee limit on Lake Whatcom, and along with two other peop...
By: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 5/8/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
So i went out to test my new trailer on lake whatcom today to do some trout fishing. Fished for kokanee with dick nites on the surface, caught a bunch, they were jumping all over, 2 hit the side of th...
By: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 7/26/2011
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Ill post this report for the last two days. Limit for 2 people yesterday and today, landing 6 fish each day and losing some more also. Today was a little difficult because we went 6-12, losing fish wa...
By: cohoslayerkevin
Posted: 7/29/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Fished lake Whatcom for a few hours Tuesday afternoon.had real good luck around 25 to 50 ft for kokanee dad cought 3 kokanee around 25 ft , the thing is that we have to release cutthroat and the las...
By: cohoslayerkevin
Posted: 5/16/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Got to The Lake With My Dad around 1 launched and got baited up and started trolling right from the launch on south bay winthin 10 mins. had the first fish on at 30 ft on the wire. cutt released unha...
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 6/2/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
One of my other passions in life is backcountry skiing. A person gets used to going up in the mountains and being cold.......good thing today was one of those days were you put one the chest wades be...
By: SWJ
Posted: 7/20/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 3 smallmouth and one cutthroat trolling Rapala shad raps and a small flatfish, respectively. Depth to bottom was 13 to 20 feet and my lure depth was deeper than 10 feet. I was fishing around ...
By: SWJ
Posted: 8/10/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled a shad colored Rapala Shad Rap for a few hours and had plenty of smallmouth action--caught approximately 5 and lost 3. The photo is of the largest fish, at approximately 18 inches, the bigges...
By: G-Man
Posted: 8/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I heard that this lake was full of Kokes and just had to give it a shot since we were in the area. The launch at the North end of the lake is 4 lanes and free! Headed out to the deeper part of the l...
Posted: 10/14/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Whatcom is still kicking out kokanee. Went today and once late last week, tons of action. Every other one is about 10-11". lots of nice cutthroat also, including a PB 18"er. All fish released the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/18/2009
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Living just minutes from samish I can't help but fish it pretty regularly. I love trolling, and am a big time salmon angler so when I'm not out chasing bigger fair I often find myself hunting "trophy...
By: Liquid metal
Posted: 5/24/2009
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
First time to Whatcom this year. Sunny/Bright-water temp 56 deg. Started out casting for bass with rapalas(perch and crawdad) ended the morning trolling same lures down at the far end catching the cut...
By: midget2000x
Posted: 7/12/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This was maybe my 5th or 6th time out to Lake Whatcom. I love the place, but am having a REALLY hard time catching fish consistently. I've been trying for anything that will bite: smallies, trout......
By: tbakko
Posted: 6/14/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We got to the lake @ 8am & cruised on down to the island. Started trolling the NE side of the lake in about 80 to 100 ft of watrer. We were using leaded line, as I dont have the DR rigged on the boat ...
By: visanick
Posted: 6/21/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Great lake, better luck next time.
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/17/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2011
Hot Spots: 3
wow, I love this lake! Coming up here is a treat. I fished with Big Bass Dez and Tyler Walker on a wet/clear/wet kind of day. We started the day off by being solicited in the parking lot by a man and ...
By: zhut
Posted: 8/2/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the South end once again. I was throwing dropshots and shaky heads around all my usual places to no avail. As the sun was going down the fish we're popping everywhere I put a heddon torpedo on ...
By: BASSLOVER
Posted: 8/28/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today the fish were pretty quiet. Other than this monster I caught skipping a yamamoto tube (watermellon w/red fleck). I find that most of the fish i catch hit on the initial fall of the bait. The ...
By: reidmilt
Posted: 5/30/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My dad and I got on the lake around 5:30 and first worked sudden valley road with zero takers. Then worked some pilings and rock, landed a solid pounder, also saw lots of fish trailing my crankbait. ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/10/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Whatcon yesterday. Launched at the ramp on south side of lake, and fished the south end of lake. Caught a 20" smallmouth - she was full of eggs so was released to make more fish. Caught ano...
