I decided to fish Lake Samish again on Thursday to see if my lessons from my first trip there on Tuesday would improve my productivity. I started fishing at sunrise where I had some success on Tuesday. Four hours later, I had one small koke and one trout. I had to kill the koke when getting the hooks out or I would have released it.

I could see some fish on the sonar but could not entice them to bite. I started back to the boat launch and came across a nice school. I went back and forth through it trying every combo I could think of including speed, dodgers, lures, tuna corn with and without garlic, anise and pink color. I have roughly 50 pre-tied rigs set up so I went through most types.

Before calling it a day around noon, I finally looked at the pre-tied setups for something I had not tried. The only style I had not tried was the Elgin God Tooth spoon. I bought them to try on Lake Stevens but never got around to using them. So I tied on the orange spoon shown below, let the line out, and bang! A nice sized fish. So off went the pink hoochie on my second pole and on went the gold and silver tooth. So about five minutes later, bang, a nice koke on the gold and silver spoon. Four fish on board - I might even get my limit!? Bang, the orange spoon gets bit and I have the nicest koke of the day to make my five fish limit. I start reeling in my second pole and bang, another koke!

God help me I was tempted to keep the koke in place of the small fish I had (it was much much bigger) but my better angels won out. Somehow it seemed like bad karma to break the law and good sportsmanship especially using a God Tooth lure... I released the koke unharmed.

It was nice to get a limit on some beautiful water on a really nice day. And I will try Elgin lures earlier on the water in the future.
Tight lines!

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