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Samish Fishing Reports

Posted: 12/27/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Dad and I decided to head out and try some winter fishing out at samish. It was a beautiful cold winter day. Hit the lake around 11 and started trolling. We marked a few fish on the bottom about 70ft ...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 9/28/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
There is something to be said for having weekdays off, there is nothing like pulling up to your favorite boat launch and seeing no other vehicles around and knowing you'll have the lake to yourself, t...
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By: SWJ
Posted: 8/15/2009
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Rating: 1
Fished: 8/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled for several hours tonight/late afternoon using wedding rings tipped with fire corn, then different colors of wedding rings and small spoons with pop gear and then dodgers with the corn, trolle...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 7/23/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched about 8am and started from the launch working south on the west shore. Threw buzzbaits and frogs around pads, spinnerbaits around docks without a bump all the way to the far south end! 9:3...
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Posted: 7/20/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to Try samish after work for a little Getaway. My buddy and I headed out about 4pm. Launched and started trolling, got 2 fish right away a perch and a small Kokanee. About 45 mins after launch...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 6/27/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the south end first, caught one on a black buzz bait on the outside edge of the lily pads 4.4lbs, and another on a frog in the lily pads 3.6lbs. Missed two smallies on a spinnerbait near the ro...
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By: rseas
Posted: 6/21/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We were able to get out on Lake Samish for a few hours today. Just outside of the no wake zone in front of the ramp we were metering significant numbers of fish at 0’-30’. Over the side went a pink we...
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By: Matt
Posted: 6/21/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Two friends and I decided to take a trip out to Samish for some sunshine and kokanee fishing after getting skunked up on the Cascade River for springers this weekend. Weather was good, light wind out...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 6/4/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 6:30am and headed straight for the s.e. corner of the lake. Began the day trying topwater baits, a white zara spook in a walk the dog retrieve along the outside edge of a lily pad field, a...
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By: tmusky1
Posted: 5/24/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I wanted to take the boat out for a shakedown cruise to Samish. We also figured we'd do some bass fishing while we were at it. We struck out for largemouth but landed a few smallmouth. On t...
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By: Dan
Posted: 5/16/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for shakedown cruise after tuning up my motor on Lake Samish. Once I knew the Suzuki DFT 70 was running smooth I decided to try my luck despite a pretty stiff wind. Water temp was 58-60 degre...
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By: Matt
Posted: 5/15/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the north end this evening for Kokanee. Found plenty of fish, all of them still very small. Fished mostly along the north west most bank and found lots of action for small Kokes. Fished in 1...
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By: ameluke
Posted: 4/20/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well all I can say about Samish today is that it was just wonderful to be out without it raining or windy. I only had two very light bites today that came off the bottom in about 25 ft of water. worke...
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By: rseas
Posted: 4/20/2009
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Today the plan was to do some yard work and relocate rod holders on the boat but…I am addicted to fishing and the nice weather pushed me over the edge. We decided to fish Lake Samish and do the chores...
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By: rseas
Posted: 4/19/2009
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished lake Samish today, I was going to do some yard work and relocate rod holders on the boat but…I am addicted to fishing and the nice weather pushed me over the edge. I had the boat hooked up and ...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/13/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Trying to repost this because the photo's didn't make it last time??? I usually fish regardless of the "forecast" and let the fish decide if they like the weather or not, especially in this State b...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/12/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I usually fish regardless of the "forecast" and let the fish decide if they like the weather or not, especially in this State because of the gauranteed spring cold fronts. Sooo I took my best friend u...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/6/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/6/2009
Hot Spots: 3
I think it's a rule, you have to fish Lake Samish if you get near Whatcom County?? Well I decided to fish out my afternoon on this excellent body of water today, and I'm glad I did, you can almost alw...
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By: trimcat
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Tried my luck at Samish today. It was a beautiful day, the water was like glass and I thought it would be a good day to fish.So much for thinkin'. Marked a lot of fish holding on the bottom 30-45 ft d...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from fishing dock on lake Samish, caught about 10 fish just using worm, bottom fishing from the dock, overall was good time, weather was great. Highly recommend Lk.
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By: MrLucky
Posted: 4/4/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hi fellas. Newbie's first report. A friend and I hit Lake Samish in the afternoon of April 2, not expecting anything, just whetting our apetites for the season opening. Casting from the shore at t...
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Posted: 3/29/2009
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day on the water, tried shore fishing and trolling. No luck. Little bit windy but nice to see the sun finally.
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 3/18/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well, got to Lake Samish and boy was she angry!! Launched my boat..against my better judgement...and headed into the waves to look for some slack water. Didn't happen, the only slack water was in abou...
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By: Basstard
Posted: 10/12/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Samish before the sun today. Fishing was slow trolled some copper cowbells and a wedding ring. Had a kok on lost it as I was getting it to the boat. We did that for about a hour more, buddy h...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I have fished Samish Lake several times lately in early morning and late afternoon / evening. I have had luck every time, a lot of small 7-10" fish but I have also pulled in two from 19"-22" and also ...
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