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Samish River Fishing Reports

Samish River
By: 8theB8
Posted: 9/19/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Thought with the recent rains I would give the salmon one more shot. Unfortunately, so did two seals! Just swam back and forth shredding fish in front of me for two hours. The fish that were showin...
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Samish River
By: 8theB8
Posted: 9/16/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I fished the Samish this afternoon. Not a lot of fish showing but I managed to land this one, dorsal hooked another one right at the bank and long line released him. Then I hooked a si...
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Samish River
By: 8theB8
Posted: 9/11/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
For last Saturday and today: I caught a 6lb hen and 3lb jack on Saturday, my friend caught two 6-8lb hens. A large school of fish moved through on Saturday and Sunday. I caught a 2.5lb jack to...
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Samish River
By: 8theB8
Posted: 9/3/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the incoming tide with spinners last night. Only saw one fish role and lost five pounds sweating to death in my chest waders lol Think I will try it again but wait for cooler temps and or m...
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Samish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 8/31/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/30/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Every Dog has his day, but sadly it wasn't my day! :( It was uber-packed combat fishing and about 15-20 pulled out throughout the morning. I had one hit, but didn't set the hook in time.
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Samish River
By: ewvw88
Posted: 8/25/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Second time trying the samish this year. Again no hookups, thought I might have had one bump. Fishing between chuckanut and I-5. Hoping the fish start to show up in force soon. Water level was relativ...
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Samish River
By: dj2loud
Posted: 8/4/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the opening day of fall kings on the samish... Nothing rolled, nothing surfaced, nothing period in 4 hours..... Did however see a blue heron and a bald eagle going at it over a fish carcass......
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Samish River
By: fisherman92
Posted: 10/10/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Samish after the hawks game last weekend 10/2 and ran into some wild coho on spinners. Went out this weekend and it was pretty dead near the mouth saturday morning 10/8. Went up river and...
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Samish River
By: 8theB8
Posted: 10/3/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Not much to tell, wife lost one about 9lbs at the bank, looked like a chinook with a little color to it. Fished the high tide with spinners as usual. Lots of fish showing so I imagine the snaggers had...
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Samish River
By: dj2loud
Posted: 9/24/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went 1 for 6, had 3 very nice coho but all were native.......
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Samish River
By: somethingsfishy
Posted: 9/11/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
If you have been to the Samish, you already know. If you haven't been, you are in for a rude awakening. Spent two days checking out the Samish River. First of all it is a very small river / mud...
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Samish River
By: 8theB8
Posted: 9/4/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished both incoming tides today a barely even saw a fish! Saw one small native jack caught and released and that was it in the morning. Came back in the evening and saw zero. Tribe started netting at...
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Samish River
By: Juandude
Posted: 8/31/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/30/2016
Hot Spots: 1
After three days of going to the samish river I finally caught one. There were a fair amount of anglers there as usually and about 1-2 fish being caught an hour. So it wasn't moving to fast but not t...
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Samish River
By: countryboy87
Posted: 8/27/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Was at the mouth this morning. Got there at 4 got to our spot fished til 8 saw probably 2 dozen fish caught thruout the gauntlet of fisherman.. Nothing for me though.. Back at it in the morning
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Samish River
By: SonOfOrion
Posted: 8/17/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My uncle and I decided to head up to the Samish to test if there were a fair amount of fish in the river or not. We went upstream from Thomas Rd. Using eggs and a bobber we fished all the holes up abo...
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Samish River
By: Eddy N.
Posted: 8/14/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/14/2016
Hot Spots: 0
really bad heard some people caught fish yesterday and last weekend so I decided to go check it out. Used red pink or chartreuse yarn. went around all over the river not one bite. no fish jumping roll...
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Samish River
By: SonOfOrion
Posted: 8/9/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/8/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Went up to the Samish river today hoping to get some early running Kings. got up to thomas road around 0600 and caught the first light of day. Began drifting eggs under a bobber. We received multiple ...
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Samish River
By: SonOfOrion
Posted: 12/27/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/18/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Went down to the samish for some good kings, as they put up a great fight are are some of the larger fish that roll through this time of year. Went float fishing eggs, at about 4 foot depth. My cousin...
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Samish River
By: lumpdog005
Posted: 9/29/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Drove up to the Samish for a few hours of combat fishing fun. I paid to play at the best spot on the river with the pilings located on the north side of the river where the WDFW welts unit is. Is $2...
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Samish River
By: mjcruz0205
Posted: 9/10/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Let start about by saying this would of been a 5 but unfortunately my buddy's brother flew 1900 miles to try to hook in to a salmon, but after 3 days of trying not a single hook up. Got to the park...
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Samish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 9/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got up at 2:30 this morning and out the door before 4am to hit pre-sunrise at the Samish river mouth. I was stunned to see a lot full of early-birds wanting to hit morning bite. I can't actually eve...
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Samish River
By: Seattle Pat
Posted: 8/31/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day on the river - saw 3 fish pulled out total. I didn't get any bites but had one bump my line. I DID get wet :(
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Samish River
By: rfnbry
Posted: 11/5/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
These obviously weren't all taken on the same day. I just had a really great year so far (at least for me seeing as though I have already caught more fish, especially giants, then I caught all last ye...
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Samish River
By: kyamukun
Posted: 10/8/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So I decided to give Samish River a shot, even after watching YouTube videos and learning that it's "combat" fishing. Figured I'd give it a go before the Chinook completely turn. Fortunately no crowds...
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Samish River
By: 8theB8
Posted: 10/6/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
2 bites 2 fish, can't complain about that. I can complain about the amount of trash being obviously left behind by "fishermen"! Pack it out people, unless you're just too physically weak and lazy to c...
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