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Sammamish Lake Report
King County, WA

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08/17/2008
Bottom Fishing From Boat
Smallmouth Bass
None
Other
Plastics
Morning
08/17/2008
4
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Went to Lake Sammamish yesterday with my dad. Started off about 6:45 trying to get some smallies. Tried dropshots, tubes, and deep diving cranks around deep docks but had no luck.

Then we decided to find some perch. I was cruising around, watching the fish finder for anything that might hold fish, and found a spot in 20ft of water where almost the whole screen showed fish. Stopped and anchored there, and threw out these 3 inch clear Yamamoto grubs. Started catching fish from the bottom to about half way down, but after a few fish, the schools came to the top of the water. I say schools cause there were several schools of fish all around the boat. Even when casting as far as i could i was catching them. I honestly think we caught over 150. Nearly everyone of them was a keeper, but we kept about 40. Didn't feel like cleaning and scaling, so we fillet them. They were big enough lol.
In the pic is all the fillets. That's a big container filled halfway to the top...
Made a video of the perch school: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXaGWrcVaM8

Only problems of the day was no bass, and lost about two packs of 20 grubs cause the perch bit the tails of.

Also saw a lot of people trolling for what i thought was cutthroats, but when i read a report today, some one said salmon??


Comments

snake7676
8/17/2008 5:38:00 PM
right on yes they prob. where fishing for salmon it opened on the 16th or cutts to prob.
urbanangler
8/17/2008 9:19:00 PM
fyi... last time I checked, there was warning about eating yellow perch out of Lake WA. And I am jealous you caught so many fish! :)
urbanangler
8/17/2008 9:20:00 PM
whoops, never mind, cut me off, this report id for Lake Samm. I MUST have red in my eyes! :)
gian
8/17/2008 9:45:00 PM
I really want to hit this lake but I'm wearry about bringin in a 12' inflatable with some of the ski boat wakes at 2ft. Good to see the fish are biting.
jetman221
8/18/2008 11:07:00 AM
there is king salmon in there and is open right now im going fishing for them in two days
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