Headed down to Lake Sammamish for some cutthroat trout fishing. We arrived at the boat launch which had only 2 other boat trailers in it and started fishing right around 10am. The wind was blowing around 5 to 10 knots with some waves on the lake and raining lightly. We decided to start at the weather buoy and head down towards the Redmond end of the lake. On an average day we catch about 1 fish an hour and on a good day it is 2 fish per hour but by noon, we already had 6 fish in the boat. One was a beautiful 1.85 pound rainbow. We haven't caught very many rainbows in the lake lately. By 2:30 we decided to call it a day with 13 fish landed and 2 (obviously the big ones) that managed to come off before finding the net. This was probably one of our best days ever for amount of fish caught in the shortest time on the lake. There are always those warm, sunny, flat calm days of spring, summer and fall when you are catching fish that are hard to beat but what a great day, almost alone out in the middle of suburbia catching a boatload of fish. The fish were mostly 15 to 16 inches although we had 2 that were considerably smaller. Our go to spots lately are "find the birds" and we seem to catch the majority of them at 20 feet or less on our downriggers.

Ben Eggertsen

1/27/2018 10:23:12 AM

Good report. Thanks.

TrackerPro16

1/27/2018 12:42:16 PM

Great report! Thank you! Always fun getting out on the water. Even better when the fish are biting!

Sharphooks

1/27/2018 4:58:29 PM

It's amazing how one day can be a complete dud on Lake Sammamish, and several days later, the fishing can turn around 180 degrees and prove to be productive. That's fishing for you. I'm glad to hear you had some fun on the lake. If you don't mind, how did you find the water clarity north of the weather buoy?

fishindan

1/28/2018 4:30:54 PM

Did not notice that water clarity was an issue.

FishingTenor

1/27/2018 10:38:16 PM

Impressive that you braved the weather and did pretty well. With all the discussion lately, are you a fan of C&R or catch and fry?

fishindan

1/28/2018 4:32:33 PM

We have so many fish in the freezer, we don't generally keep many. We did keep 2 for dinner this time but on average we keep only the ones that are hooked to deeply to survive.

FishingTenor

2/1/2018 8:13:17 AM

Fishindan, That sounds very respectful of the trout. Thank you for your report.

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