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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/27/1999
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Fished in the south end by the river on the east side of the sand bar. Used a glow rooster tail. Caught a nice 2lb smallmouth within the first minute. Saw one long perch caught later. Nothing else...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/1999
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/1999
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I tried the North end of the lake where we usually catch perch, but we had no luck. We went down to the south end almost in the lilly pads and caught several 10 to 11 inch perch, keeping en...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/21/1999
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/21/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 3 days straight on south end in front of creek. Hit consistent 16" to 20" cuts. Trolling Super Duper (Same colors as a perch) with a worm off the down rigger. The fish do not show on the finder...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/11/1999
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/11/1999
Hot Spots: 0
We got on the water about 7:45am and trolled from the south end to the north end along the east side of the lake. We stop in from of docks here and there to cast a few lines. Unfortunately we did not ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/27/1999
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Rating: 2
Fished: 3/27/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Went out today at about 9:30. Fished till 1:30. Only caught and released one kok. It was very windy and had some difficulty in boat control. For any one that was out today I was the kid in the rowb...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/20/1999
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/20/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Started out at 9:30 sunday morning trolling at the mouth of the creek. Saw some fish surface but no takers. Fished everything from spoons to spinners even a rainbow countdown rapala. Fished until abou...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/9/1999
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Rating: 5
Fished: 3/9/1999
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to take advantage of our (rare) good weather on the 6th of March and give Lake Sammamish a try. I got there around 11:00 and started trolling with light pop gear and a red/chrome needlefish ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/8/1999
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Rating: 5
Fished: 3/8/1999
Hot Spots: 0
My brother and I went to Lake Sammamish last weekend on a whim.
Wow! We fished Husky jerk baits along the docks and had a great day. If you cast into about 15-20 feet of water and work the lure as l...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/17/1998
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/17/1998
Hot Spots: 0
I went out Sunday morning Aug. 17 and fished in the rain for two hours.
After trolling for an hour and a half with a chrome and red spoon, I
dropped anchor. I saw lots of fish on the bottom so I dro...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/17/1998
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Rating: 1
Fished: 8/17/1998
Hot Spots: 0
I went fishing with my sons this evening, spend a couple hours trolling three lures at various depths from hugging the bottom to skimming the top. We used dodgers, flashers, flatfish, spoons, all to n...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/7/1998
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Rating: 1
Fished: 8/7/1998
Hot Spots: 0
Did a morning trip to check out the spawning Chinook and catch a few cutts if lucky. Fished from 6am to 9:30am. Saw a few salmon jumping in the area of Issaquah Creek. No take-downs on my trolled gear...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/1/1998
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Rating: 1
Fished: 7/1/1998
Hot Spots: 0
Fished a couple of hours this evening with my two boys. We trolled the area offshore of Issaquah Creek. Used thin blade spoons and a gang troll with nightcrawler. We had one tap on a thin blade but ot...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/10/1998
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/10/1998
Hot Spots: 0
I got to fish with BK, a regular contributor to our Lakes pages, for the monster cutthroat of Lake Samm. The weather was great and conditions couldn't be better. We hit the water at 6am, trolling thin...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/7/1998
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/1998
Hot Spots: 0
Got invited to go boating on Lake Sammamish on the 7th of June. It was warm and sunny, water full of skiers. My buddy coaxed me into taking my pole and after cutting the motor at 90 feet, I was lef...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/21/1998
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/1998
Hot Spots: 0
Fished lake Sammy right off the boat launch to Issaquah creek and back a couple of times. We fished from 5-9 and caught 6 fish, one of which was really big, about 5lbs. A couple more 18inchers and w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/20/1998
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/1998
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Lake Sammamish today from 6:00 to 9:00 on the east lake. Hooked a beautiful 4 LB cut after an hour of fishing only to lose her as she was on the way to the boat. Hooked one other nice fish ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/3/1998
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/3/1998
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing from 8:15am to 10:45am. Fished a variety of lures, colors and depths from 25-45 feet off a downrigger. Trolling thin blade spoons. The lake was calm, the weather was nice, and the skiers ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/6/1998
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/6/1998
Hot Spots: 0
Fished lake Sammamish twice last week -- on March 6th (Friday) and March 10th. This is my first year fly-fishing, and I left work early on Friday, basically to practice casting. It's a good thing that...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/22/1997
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/1997
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Sammamish started out slow today as my sons and I began fishing at 6 am. Our first two "spots" yielded no fish, and I was beginning to think we might actually be skunked. However, at our finally ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/4/1997
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/1997
Hot Spots: 0
Summer has arrived on Lake Sammamish as the skiers and jet boats came out in force on this hot 4th of July morning. Despite the boat traffic and occasional close buzz by skiers, the fishing continues ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/15/1997
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/1997
Hot Spots: 0
A Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there! My three year old son woke me up at 6 am this morning to remind me that my alarm had gone off and it was time to go fishing! What more could you ask for...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/30/1997
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/30/1997
Hot Spots: 0
My sons and I spent a couple hours trying for cutthroats on the lake. We trolled thin blade spoons without success, came in at noon when the wind started to pick up. Saw no one else doing any good. Th...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 2/17/1997
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Rating: 1
Fished: 2/17/1997
Hot Spots: 0
I read in the dreaded FHN that Dec and Feb were good months to try the lake for cutthroats, so I loaded up my boat and my two boys and spent a couple hours this afternoon in pursuit of the red-throate...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/3/1996
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Rating: 3
Fished: 10/3/1996
Hot Spots: 0
I was at Lake Sammamish State Park the other day and the place was crawling with salmon. They were even jumping in the swimming area. Most looked pretty dark and in the 3-8 lb. range. From my experien...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/18/1996
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/18/1996
Hot Spots: 0
The perch fishing on the lake is at it's prime now. My sons and I went out this afternoon and caught non-stop perch ranging from 8-10" on the keepers with a couple to 12". We found the best bait is t...