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Samish Fishing Reports

Posted: 7/8/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers three different trips over two days of fishing. We started at just after 4:00am Saturday morning. First boat on the lake. It was the maiden voyage for my buddies fishing boat, an...
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Posted: 6/17/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This trip really should be listed as a 3+ or 4- but I guess it wasn't that great in the scheme of things. We were on the lake shortly after 4:00am, one other boat on the water. We decided to forgo u...
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By: Mharri333
Posted: 6/3/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Samish Saturday and Sunday. Limit Saturday by 8am and Sunday by 7. Fish are more spread out than earlier but plentiful. One fish was 14 plus inches which was the largest. Rough after fishing Ch...
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By: Norm
Posted: 5/31/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
For some reason I felt today was going to be a bad day. Started getting that feeling after loosing the first 8 fish in a row. Then a downrigger decided to slide out of its mount and into the drink Af...
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By: rappuhd
Posted: 5/30/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My class was canceled today so me and a buddy decided to go out and try and find some nice perch. Took a little time to find them but once we did was non stop action until we ran out of worms. Caught ...
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By: Norm
Posted: 5/24/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The morning was a little on the slow side. Started out at 25ft and 45ft. Nothing going on so dropped the one at 25 down to 35ft and picked up the first fish. All the fish after that came from 45ft-55f...
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Posted: 5/22/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Was bored this afternoon so my buddy and I decided to head to samish around 5pm because the weather looked decent. Got out off the boatlaunch and tried to set my gear at 35 feet but hooked up dropping...
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By: Norm
Posted: 5/22/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to quit being lazy and get out and do some fishing. Went up sat. morning and forgot the downrigger balls. flat lined a couple rods and ended up getting 4 to the boat and loosing a few. Decided...
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Posted: 5/11/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Samish has been fishing great, with today being the only slowish day, but still limited around 9am. Last saturday got a solo limit by 8am, sunday 2 person limit by 6:30am. Wednesday 2 person limit by ...
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By: burlee
Posted: 5/11/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Samish kokanee seem to be running a little hot and cold so far this spring. Wednesday was 2 limits in less than 2 hrs, today was 1 limit in 3 + hours. The fish are running smaller than last year, but ...
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By: rseas
Posted: 4/27/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to drive up to Lake Samish this morning and see how the AIS enforcement effort was going. But wait, I might as well haul the boat along just in case the program hasn’t quite made it to the l...
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Posted: 4/21/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/20/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Had a reasonably good time Yesterday morning on the hunt for kokes with a friend. On the water at 0630 with a light misting of rain that didn't last for too long. Started right from the boat launch ...
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By: rseas
Posted: 4/14/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I had a couple hours to kill so hooked the boat up and headed for Lake Samish. First Samish trip this year and I am always a little apprehensive about heading to Samish during low traffic periods. The...
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Posted: 3/11/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take advantage of the great weather we had Saturday, and headed out to Samish with my new (to me) fishing boat. We were chasing Kokanee but anything on the hook would have made for a succe...
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By: rappuhd
Posted: 1/21/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Have not been doing real well on the rivers since they are so low so decided to try samish for some winter perch. Did real good during the fall for them and figured if we could find them could get a n...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 1
In the water at 5:30 A M, fished until 9:00 A M. caught 4 Silver Bullets, three over 15". First fish at 25', second at 30', third at 35', and forth at 45'. Trolled green Wedding Ring with 2 red hooks,...
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Posted: 7/1/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Finally caught what I thought was the elusive Kokanee. On the lake by about 6am and got the first one within ten minutes on the lake. Trolled for about an hour before we saw the second and the third...
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Posted: 6/24/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Horrible! On the water before 5:30 and couldn't find them to save my life. Lots of surface action but they looked to be small and were uninterested in our lures. Started with lead line, dodger and ...
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Posted: 6/14/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Brutal. One word sums it up. My wife and I hit the water at 5:15am with hopes high of a good morning bite. I think the low pressure front put the bite on "off" cause we had one fish brief on and that ...
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By: Idstud
Posted: 6/11/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 5am. Started just out from the launch and headed north. Fishing with my Moms boyfriend who hasnt been in a very long time and had never fished for kokanee. From reading previ...
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By: rseas
Posted: 6/4/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Well didn’t know it at the when we got up but we were due for an interesting day on the water and at the fish cleaning table. First we had planned to fish Lake Whatcom but due to a late night we didn’...
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Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Wow, what a great day on the water today! My wife JoAnn and I got up at 3:30 and drove to lake Samish in search of kokanee. We arrived and had the boat in the water at 6:15. The parking lot was alr...
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By: burlee
Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
With the Skagit River mostly blown out, I hit Lake Samish about 6:45 for a little Kokanee action. I got there just ahead of the rush and found a friend hanging out at the ramp hoping to score a seat i...
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By: rseas
Posted: 6/2/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2012
Hot Spots: 2
I had planned to fish Lake Samish at the crack of dawn this morning but when the alarm went off I didn’t quite get out of bed. An hour later I was up, had the coffee made and the boat ready to go. Arr...
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By: rappuhd
Posted: 6/1/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had a little time and figured I would get out and see if I could finally get a kokanee in the boat. Had my suzuki stolen off my boat the other night so was pleased to see the lake was glass as I only ...
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