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By: Kisutch
Posted: 5/29/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the launch at 5:30, but broke my pump hose terminal while inflating my boat, so I had to do some goofy hose holding and took longer than I like to get everything ready to go. Got it done thoug...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 5/27/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Bright Sunny day, so some friends and I jumped in the boat and fished the afternoon on Samish. We trolled wedding rings and kokanee lures, and while fishing wasn't hot, there was enough action to kee...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 5/13/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hadn't been to Samish in a few weeks, so we decided to head that way and see if the lake had warmed up (it had!). There was a bass tournament on the lake, so the parking lot was overflowing with trai...
By: hawkfan78
Posted: 5/1/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Couldn’t pass up a nice weekend day so grabbed the gear and the daughter and headed for the lake. On the water by 6:30, a few other boats a the launch. AIS crew was out so had to go through the whol...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 4/9/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water by 8 am and trolled until 11:30, when the wind started really picking up. 4 lines in the water and not even a bite. Found a few scattered fish on the depth finder, but nothing schooled...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 3/31/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/31/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Despite water temps hanging in the low-mid 40s and my new fish finder sitting in a Kent FedEx facility, I woke my girlfriend up and packed the car to go spend our day off on the water. We hit the lau...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 3/25/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/24/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got a late start after a trip to the local sporting goods store to outfit my new boat. Had lines in the water by 10:30 and fought the wind from the outset. Fished flashers and several presentations ...
By: Squatchtrapper
Posted: 9/8/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I went with a couple of friends to Lake Samish at first light and had a great time hammering kokanee off of the kayak. We flatlined an old school lake troll (flasher) with a chrome and orange wedding ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2016
Hot Spots: 2
JoAnn and I decided after the long drive last week to Montana to skip our overnight Baker Lake weekend. But the fishing bug was still biting me so on Sunday we took the dogs and drove up lake Samish f...
By: rseas
Posted: 7/3/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
WOW! Again I don’t know where to start, how to rate this trip of even which “Target Species” to use. Saturday morning get up without any hard fishing plans I finally decided to hitch up the boat and h...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/29/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/29/2016
Hot Spots: 2
My final day of vacation. It's been a great ten days off. One last fishing outing, this time with Randy (rseas), Gringo Pescador (Mark), and my friend Dan (who repaired a ding in my brand new boat).
...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 6/26/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Started out in the first cove south of the launch on the east side. Worked the edge of the pads with a spinnerbait and a crankbait and flipped the pads with a Z-Hog and worm. Huge school of fry in fro...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/29/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Samish this morning for the first time in years! Ever since my windows got smashed out I hadn't been back as it seems to be an ongoing problem unfortunately. With the AIS station there on Sunda...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/22/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2016
Hot Spots: 2
My springer plans had fallen through for the Cowlitz, but the fishing bug was burning inside me and I had to go fishing! I contacted Randy (rseas) and we decided to hit Lake Samish for kokanee.
I’...
By: rseas
Posted: 5/16/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After a really busy week (although Thursday and Friday I was fishing) and an even busier Saturday when Sunday rolled around I needed some boat time. Late morning we loaded the boat up and headed for L...
By: DjButler
Posted: 5/8/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
What a fantastic way to end a weekend get away in Bellingham. Weather was perfect and fishing was even better. I gave my buddy Vanhine a call to see if I could convince him to bring his boat out to Sa...
By: rseas
Posted: 5/8/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Saturday was a busy one. I rolled out of bed early and got to the chores that had eluded me during the week. After the chores were done I decided to take the Whatcom County AIS (Aquatic Invasive Speci...
By: cohoslayerkevin
Posted: 5/19/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took the boat out today to lake Samish Got there around 7:30 am and was only a few boats. One fella just pulled out and had a limit of 8 to 10 inchers. heard the fishing was hot . started trolling an...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/20/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 9:30am till about 12:30 when the wind made it to difficult to troll. Fish caught in 5-12 ft off the downrigger in 60-70 ft of water. Fished straight out from launch in the middle of the l...
By: rseas
Posted: 11/2/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Woo-hoo, another day on the water! After a really busy Saturday, Sunday morning it looked as though it would be a repeat of Saturday. But as luck may have it the fish gods were smiling and I got to fi...
By: rseas
Posted: 8/25/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/24/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Sunday I had planned to fish Lake Stevens with my good buddy Tony but as luck may have it a trip that far south was not in the cards. Then after an on again off again on again (kids…) plan to fish Lak...
By: DjButler
Posted: 6/15/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well this was a day of fishing that was unexpected. I happened to be in Bellingham for graduation at WWU for the weekend. As I was driving back down I decided to stop at Samish last minute. I bought a...
By: americanmcss
Posted: 3/28/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This post is a few weeks old already but was having issues with my account.
Fished Samish for Kokes just to get the gear wet basically. It can be done if you are in the right place at the right ...
By: americanmcss
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...
By: americanmcss
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...