Wow, I haven't fished Sammamish in months! Finally made time for a few hours today to get ready for winterizing.

Beautiful morning out on the water. But tough conditions. Calm and blue sky. Water temp at 64.

Fan casting with a small swimbait. Then started fan casting with a larger swimbait. Found a monster school of perch.

Went out a little bit deep. Tossed a tube out. Hopped around and get a strike. Just a dink.

Decided to move out and as I'm looking for a new spot to fish, I see my sonar has a few arches at 35'. Swing back around and tossed the tube with nothing. Dropped the DS out and didn't take long before I got another strike. Just a dink. Tossed it around and get myself a 1.75#. Caught a total of 4 on the DS around the same 10x10 area. Biggest was the 1.75#. 2 tiny dinks, and 1 at about #1.

Boated across to the other side of the lake and tried to see if I could find anything in the shallows. Wow the water is clear. Pitched around a few docks with not even a nibble. Started moving out deeper and found a fish at about 12'. Not big, another 1#.

Rotating, I make a cast with a DS in about 15' and I didn't feel the strike, but I saw my line swimming away as soon as it hit bottom. Set the hook and it feels like a decent fish. I see the fish and not bad. Oh wow, I see 2 others following it. So I relaxed a bit and just let the fish swim around so it wouldn't spook the other 2. One was about the same size and the other was a little bit bigger. The 2 disappear and I scoop my fish in. Another 1.75#er.

I fished a bit down for about 15 mins and swung back and tried to catch those 2 fish I saw, but they are gone or not interested. Bummer.

Caught a few more along the ways. Mainly 1-1.5#. A few dinks in the mix.

Pitched out my DS in 20' of water and a few twitches and I feel the tick. Set the hook and this feels like a nice one too. Woot, 2.29#.

Continued on and got another one at about 2#, with a couple of smaller and dinks.

I pitched my DS on a corner of a dock and jiggle for a couple of seconds. I feel the strike and see it swimming underneath. I set the hook and holy smokes, it feels like I have a tank! It does 2 drag strips. On the third, it broke off. UGH. I knew I should have retied after the previous fish. I'm guesstimating ~3.5#. But since I never saw it or didn't get to catch it, it could have been a 5+#, LOL.

I do get another 2#, and it was croaking at me like a Squawfish! I look in it's mouth and it has half a craw getting crunched by the gullet?

Caught me a nice football on the deep side of a dock. Biggest fish of the day at 2.60#. Had buddy following too.

And hour has gone by and I wanted to see if I could get that biggun that got away. Worked that area for about 15 mins without a bite and called it quits.

Productive day on the water. Wasn't too cold in the morning. By noon, it was very comfortable.

Until next year.

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