My fishing partner and I hit Lake Sammamish just after the boat launch park gate opened up at 6:30 AM this morning. We were in the water and fishing near the weather buoy at 7:00 AM. We began our fishing morning by using all the good stuff that is commonly talked about at this website. We quickly caught and released one Cutthroat of about 14 inches and at that point we thought we were in for a real good day of fishing . That turned out to be a very false assumption. We continued to fish that general area for about an hour without as much as a single strike. We then headed north several miles and fished the west and east sides of the lake for the next two hours without experiencing any fish encounters. We then headed back down to the south end of the lake and fished the area in front of Issaquah Creek for the next hour where we finally connected, caught and released a nice Cutthroat of about 16 inches. That gave us 4 hours of fishing time on the lake with 2 fish caught and 2 released back to the lake for our time on water. The only way you could describe the fishing this morning would be very, very S-L-O-W. From past years of good fishing experiences on Lake Sammamish at this time of the year, the fishing for the Cutthroat should be much more productive. Since this was our third time on the lake this spring with similar fishing results, we are beginning to wonder if the Cutthroat population in the lake is not up to par from past years levels. We hope it was just a case of running into another bad day of fishing that fishermen encounter every so often. We will be back to Lake Sammamish next week with the hope of having a better fishing experience. Whether you have an good fishing day or a poor one, its just nice to be out on the lake trying your best to catch fish.