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By: 8theB8
Posted: 8/22/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got off work a little early, and after working 70hrs in four and a half days I was ready for some unwind time! Hooked up and headed for Lake Whatcom to try the evening bite as it has been a while sinc...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2010
Hot Spots: 3
Finally got a chance to hit one of my favorite Western Washington lakes today! Launched at 9am, after taking my daughter to school, and decided to stay all day. Water temps in the north end were 59-61...
By: BASSLOVER
Posted: 8/28/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today the fish were pretty quiet. Other than this monster I caught skipping a yamamoto tube (watermellon w/red fleck). I find that most of the fish i catch hit on the initial fall of the bait. The ...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 9/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took a friend from work on his first bass trip hoping for some smallie action. It was raining steady and the wind was out of the south anywhere from 5-10mph with water temps in the mid to upper 60's. ...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 10/11/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to fish Lake Whatcom one more time before it closes for no reason on October 31st...Launched at around 9am, headed south to Strawberry Point as the wind was blowing about 10mph out of the sout...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/17/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started today off at about 9:30am at Bloedel Donovan Park and headed south along the west side throwing grubs, a crawdad colored crankbait, a jig and a spinnerbait. Worked all the way down to the rock...
By: shakesdabutz
Posted: 5/17/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Whatcom Tuesday evening for two hours from 7:30 to 9:30. Water temps ranged from 51 to 54. Fishing was slow, but managed to catch one smallie weighing around 3lbs. or so. Fish was caught on a g...
By: fishfiend
Posted: 6/27/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got onto the lake at about 5:00 and fished until 9:00. Caught 11 small mouth bass between two of us and one rainbow. Largest bass 23" and smallest bass 6". Trout was about 12". Great sunny day. P...
By: jerry powell
Posted: 7/9/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
well i went to whatcome lake this mourning and as always whatcome lake was good to me i caught several fish and some of good size dont know the weights i need to get a scale but i had 3 around 15 inc...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/17/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2011
Hot Spots: 3
wow, I love this lake! Coming up here is a treat. I fished with Big Bass Dez and Tyler Walker on a wet/clear/wet kind of day. We started the day off by being solicited in the parking lot by a man and ...
By: buzzbait
Posted: 8/26/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
new Personal best Smallmouth,5.9 lbs.,21 1/2 inches.
By: Bassmangaron
Posted: 4/22/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for about two hours caught one personal record smallmouth at 5 pounds and alot of smaller fish
By: rappuhd
Posted: 10/20/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Been wanting to get back to whatcom since we got our first smallmouth last time out. Started out fishing pilings and my girlfriend on her first cast picked up the biggest one we have gotten thus far. ...
By: thenextone
Posted: 5/16/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
North end of the lake is starting to heat up, lots of big females biting, fun couple of days this week, waiting for the south end to catch up, I have spotted a few toads getting ready to spawn. Caught...
By: thenextone
Posted: 5/29/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Great couple of days on the lake with my buddy, explored some new areas of the lake, Caught two over 5lbs and a bunch in the 3-4lb range found a couple giants on beds all by themselves, but it was to...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 8/10/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Had the opportunity to fish with some good company today. Launched at about 0800 and headed for Geneva Point hoping to get in on some smallies on the rocky point. Not so much as a strike here. Worked ...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 8/30/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day on Whatcom today. Caught lots of small fish and two that went 3lbs. One of the 3lbers had another 4 fish following it that were all in the 2-4lb range so I let it swim next to the boat w...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 10/24/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Had zero intentions of fishing this lake today, partly because I'm still in largemouth mode and partly because the wind was supposed to be fairly strong today. I drove by on my way to Fazon just tp lo...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/5/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted to smallmouth fish the incoming thunderstorm so I made a mad dash to Lake Whatcom, got all the AIS junk done for the year and was launched! I headed straight for the rock island and tried th...
By: branweeds
Posted: 5/9/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got stuck on campus writing a book report all day, and decided to try and catch my first bass on my new rod. I got to Blodel about 7:30, and fished for half an hour or so. Only one bite, and I hooked ...
By: bcompton47
Posted: 5/15/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Bloedel and out on the water by 6 am. We decided to try going under the bridge but had no luck. Unfortunately we forgot the fish finder so there was no real way to see if there were even a...
By: branweeds
Posted: 5/16/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I went and found a few beds on Whatcom today from the kayaks, first after work I took mine out for an hour and then I met up with a buddy and we took his kayaks out for another hour. Got four smallmou...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 5/24/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This is a joint report for really all of NW Washington.
The trees have greened, the sun finally decided to peek around the clouds, and the water is finally of livable temperature. Just as the outdo...
By: zhut
Posted: 7/16/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the South end of Whatcom this Saturday. Caught 1 juvenile smallmouth dropshotting with a green and tan curly tail roboworm. Also caught a rock sculpin fishing a shaky head with a roboworm.
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By: zhut
Posted: 7/24/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the South end of lake Whatcom once again. Ended up landing one Smallmouth on the dropshot. The fish we're definitely biting that day as I had numerous other on the line just didn't get em in th...
