Northwest Fishing Reports

Thanks everyone for voicing your opinions here and thanks to Mike Carey for giving us that opportunity. I know many of you have very strong feelings that run deep and that is to be respected. From my point of view and to conclude my remarks here, I will reiterate that Lake Sammamish is now encircled...

Sharphooks, have you ever contacted the WDFW biologist for Lake Sammamish and had this discussion with him/her? If not, I would encourage you to do so and report back to us what the biologist had to say. Change only takes place when someone has enough passion to turn words into action. I'm happy to...

it's very stupid to generalize for all Sammamish fish! even the wdfw knew it when they did it for a while a few years ago. very inefficient and they did away with it because someone in the dept finaly smartened up. Amx, know that I recommend my afore mentioned barbless hook restriction across all f...

I'm in agreement that the kokanee need better protection and barbless hooks would be one way to promote that. I think a reg could be written "when fishing for trout" hooks must be barbless. That would respect the bass and perch anglers and it would be pretty obvious if you're checked in the middle ...

Let me first say I respect all opinions here - - - pro and con. Strictly speaking from my point of view, I see Lake Sammamish as a very, very unique fishery which is situated literally in the middle of a multi-million people population center. In my opinion its fishery can't be treated the same as a...

I have some very strong opinion with regards to how Lake Sammamish should be fished as it applies to barbed vs barbless hooks. Very frankly, I'm of the opinion the upcoming WDFW fishing regulations should be changed to only allow barbless type hooks and to do so on a year around basis. Before I get ...