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Posted: 8/13/2024
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/13/2024
Hot Spots: 0
Started off pretty hot. Only took about 10 minutes until I found the SMB were out deeper in about 12-15' of water. Went through a fresh pack of dropshot baits with a quickness. Biggest was prob 2.5...
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Posted: 7/23/2024
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/22/2024
Hot Spots: 0
It was tough out there. I was also underdressed. Should have brought a sweater with me. It seemed half the lake had a stiff breeze with this fine mist. Started off fishing shallows but after an hou...
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Posted: 7/16/2024
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2024
Hot Spots: 0
Another beautiful day on the water. Started off with topwater but zero action. So rotated to start fishing deeper with dropshot. That was the ticket. Found smallies in clusters scattered in about 12-2...
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Posted: 7/2/2024
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2024
Hot Spots: 0
After the hot run on LMB yesterday, I figure I'll try again. Started off going all the way up north. Welp not much there except finding lots of panfish. Started working my way down and found a SMB....
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Posted: 7/1/2024
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2024
Hot Spots: 0
Testing out new cranking battery and it's a success! Started a bit late today, so I didn't go too before started casting. Going through my rotation. Morning started off with the lake smooth as glas...
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Posted: 6/25/2024
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2024
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day today. Started off slow on wind blown side. Started with a swim bait and crank. Mixed in dropshot here and there. Then a swimjig and chatterbait. First fish a dink smallie on a swimba...
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Posted: 6/10/2024
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/10/2024
Hot Spots: 0
2nd time out for the year. Tried to get out on the water a couple of weeks ago but motor wasn't peeing. So never left the dock. Fortunately it was an easy and cheap $5 repair. Today was able to confir...
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By: Oddcarout
Posted: 5/25/2024
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2024
Hot Spots: 0
Was a great day of catching anything but the cutts. Fast trolling between 2.5-3 and we landed 2 good cutts, lost a few but the real story of today was the wild Coho. We saw more silver than I have eve...
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Posted: 5/20/2024
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2024
Hot Spots: 2
My brother and I took the boat out to troll Sunday morning. Wind was low, few people were out. My setup was a ford fender with a red wedding ring tipped with night crawler, his was a red rooster tail ...
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By: fishindan
Posted: 12/20/2023
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/19/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Headed down to Lake Sammamish to fish for those ever elusive cutthroat trout. We started fishing at 9am and quit at 3pm, so a good 6 hours fishing. The first question is always which end of the lake t...
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Posted: 7/19/2023
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/18/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day out on the water. Couldn't have asked for a better day. Slow catching though. The usual perch and dink smallies in the mix. Had a decent largie smack the crank but couldn't hookup. ...
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Posted: 7/10/2023
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Been a couple weeks since my last outting. Hit up a point I haven't touched this year yet. I was working my way towards it with a swimbait along the shores. Got out deeper and switched to dropshot. ...
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Posted: 6/27/2023
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Tough bassing. Rotated between a jerkbait, senko, swimbait, crankbait and dropshot. I caught a bunch of perch. 2 trouts on the jerkbait. That's never happened before. Only 1 SMB on a dropshot. ...
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Posted: 6/17/2023
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Started trolling at 0820 hrs and wrapped it up at 1620. We used spooks and plastics so we could catch and release. Overall good day. Water temp was 68 all the way down to 20 feet then it cooled o...
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Posted: 6/6/2023
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Wind was a little bit less than yesterday. Wanted to fish the other side of the lake today. Instead of going with the wind though, I went against it. Manageable. Started off with jerkbait. 3rd...
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Posted: 6/5/2023
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2023
Hot Spots: 0
My first attempt at fishing for this year was about 3 weeks ago. Found out I had a motor issue when I was launching, so turned right back and been waiting for the shop to call. Got the word everythi...
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Posted: 2/19/2023
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/19/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day on Lake Sammamish. We started at 0845 hrs. and trolled until 1445 hrs. The water temp was slightly over 44 degrees and we trolled 1.6-2.1 mph. The hot set up of the day was a Mack's...
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By: fishindan
Posted: 9/30/2022
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/29/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Headed down to Lake Samammish for some cutthroat trout fishing. We started fishing right about noon and fished to 5 pm, 5 hours. It was some of the best fishing I have found at the lake. In 5 hours, w...
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By: mayday
Posted: 9/8/2022
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/8/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Was on the water about 6:45am and back off about 9:15am with limits caught. Cutthroat were decent, a bit smaller (14 - 16") than I have caught in the past on Lake Sammamish. Majority of the action w...
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Posted: 7/12/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/12/2022
Hot Spots: 0
It was a grind today. Found some dinks in the shallow. Found some dinks in 20'. Finally found a couple 2# on a deep point. Stopped off at Farthole and caught a few of dinks, then this beat up 2#...
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Posted: 7/5/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Been a few weeks since my last outing. Started off kind of rough with a noob mistake. I left my transom straps on when I was backing up the boat. I was wondering why I had to be so far in the water...
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Posted: 6/21/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day out on the water. Decided to start off with topwater because why not. After 20 mins without a bite, started using dropshot and swimbait. A very slow start. Saw little fries holding n...
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Posted: 6/7/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Slow start today. Blue skies. No wind. Cotton floating everywhere. Started off with a senko, then switched to dropshot and mixing in with swimbait on a new rod. Stayed with the dropshot mostl...
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Posted: 5/31/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Much slower start today compared to the last 2 outings. I think with the partly sunny skies, the fish werent roaming as much and holding tighter to cover. Staying with the jerkbait, I didnt hookup ...
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By: Amx
Posted: 5/31/2022
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Checked the pads to see what they were up to, not up to the surface yet. No bites in the largies areas. Finaly a nibble in a smallie area, but probably a perch or bluegill. Went elsewhere, and talked ...
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