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By: conquestdz
Posted: 10/2/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/2/2020
Hot Spots: 0
There were a ton of marks on my fish finder today, but the fishing was a bit tough. I cycled through pretty much everything in my tackle box before finally getting a couple 15" cutthroat in the coole...
By: jeffc
Posted: 8/31/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/29/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Haven't been on Sammamish since late June. Quick morning of fishing while my wife ran a virtual run around Issaquah, starting and ending at the boat launch so that I can fish and be her ride. :)
La...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 8/26/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2020
Hot Spots: 0
First cast at about 8:45AM. Started off with the dropshot. A few nibbles but no hookup.
Moving around and switched to the dropshot. Took a while but finally landed a fish after an hr or so. It'...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 8/19/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/19/2020
Hot Spots: 0
First cast a little after 9. Started off with a topwater in the shallows for about 10 mins. As soon as I put that down, I landed my first SMB in about 2 or 3 casts with the dropshot. Caught in abou...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 8/11/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2020
Hot Spots: 0
I'm a bit conflicted with the rating. Quantity wise, it'll be at least a 4 but quality and pace, I think a 3 is appropriate.
I started off at a deep point that I havent fished all year. Working ...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 8/5/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/5/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day a little rough. When I got to the launch and started to put the gear into the boat, I realized I didnt have my pack with electronics or the dog's floatation vest. So no graphs, no sc...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 7/29/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Back at it, started off with a topwater @ 8:30. Took a while but I finally got a nice blowup on it. Unfortunately the fish missed completely and never came back.
I started rotating in a crankbait...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 7/28/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2020
Hot Spots: 0
First cast just before 9. Wanted some topwater action, so started off with a plopper.
Worked several areas on the east side, both in shade and sun without any action at all. Spent about 30-45 min...
By: fishindan
Posted: 7/25/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Well, headed down to Lake Sammamish and started fishing about 8:30 am and fished for 7 hours or so. We once again proved that the number one rule of fishing still stands. "You have to go fishing to c...
By: Nick101
Posted: 7/22/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/22/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Started out fishing about 10 AM, far south west of the lake, by the state park. hooked on to a Small LMB and a SMB in about 5-9ft of water. Headed more North by Vasa Park, That's where we caught some ...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 7/15/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/15/2020
Hot Spots: 0
First cast at about 9 or so. Started with burning a crankbait around some docks. Rotated to the dropshot. Got the first bite about 10 mins with it. Lost it when it jumped at boat side. Wasnt big....
By: FishingFool
Posted: 7/8/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2020
Hot Spots: 0
It's been a while. First time out solo with the pup, so lets see how this goes.
Got onto the water at about 10. Fishing an outside weed edge in about 15' of water. 3rd cast with the dropshot and...
By: Nick101
Posted: 6/25/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2020
Hot Spots: 0
First time out on Sammamish, started off fishing down south/west of the state park. (9 AM) flipped some spinners/ swimbait, footballs cranks etc you name it. Nothing with my buddy. 4 hours into the d...
By: conquestdz
Posted: 6/21/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2020
Hot Spots: 1
It was a bit of a tough morning on Sammamish. The fish were all shallow today. I got 2 small cutthroat north of the weather bouy and pretty close to shore on a green cripplure almost right away, and...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/17/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/17/2020
Hot Spots: 0
First cast a bit after 11.
Started off at a deep point that had success in the past but I didn't feel or see any larger fish in the mix of perch.
So went shallow and worked a jerkbait. Ran i...
By: jeffc
Posted: 6/5/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2020
Hot Spots: 1
Tried to squeeze in a quick 2 hour trip in the morning. Met an extremely nice gentleman at the launch and we chatted for a bit and he explained what's been working for him. In our separate boats, we r...
By: jeffc
Posted: 6/5/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2020
Hot Spots: 2
Tried to squeeze in a quick 2 hour trip in the morning. Met an extremely nice gentleman at the launch and we chatted for a bit and he explained what's been working for him. In our separate boats, we r...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/2/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Started off on the west side hammering the shoreline, targeting 1'-5' of water. A pretty good breeze on the water but didn't see any cotton at all, so that was nice.
Tied up only 3 rods, a small s...
By: rmrauscher
Posted: 5/28/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2020
Hot Spots: 1
Crazy crazy day on Lk Sammamish on Wednesday. Got on the water about 9, beautiful day, one quick fish in the net and then absolutely nothing for about 4 hours.
We threw the box at them, covered a ...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 5/27/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Wow what a beautiful day today. 2nd trip out this year but really my first real fishing for the year.
Didn't get onto the water until about 1030AM and there's a lot more rigs than I normally see. ...
By: dustinhu
Posted: 5/25/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Bass fishing on Lake Sammamish is heating up. Starting to see a lot more fishermen out there targeting the shorelines. I got 2 yesterday in about 10’ of water. I was fishing a simple drop shot rig and...
By: herefishy
Posted: 5/21/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Sammamish was not hot but produced through out the day. No particular lure or color used. Blue/Silver God's tooth and Yakima Bait Company rainbow Spin-N-Glow produced the most consistently. All b...
By: rmrauscher
Posted: 5/14/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/13/2020
Hot Spots: 3
Cutthroat fishing right now on Sammamish is about as good as it gets anywhere!
It took us a while to find the magic but once we did it was non stop action. Lots of good solid hookups and finally go...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/7/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Put the boat in a little later than I hoped around 11am. I had my limit by 1:00pm. I was using a red and green double whammy with the second hook clipped and the first hook barb-less so I could catc...
By: rmrauscher
Posted: 5/6/2020
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Great day of fishing on Sammamish on Tuesday. Sure was nice to finally get out of Covid jail. Beautiful day and a lot of folks out there.
Good news is there seem to be a lot of fish in the lake, ba...