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By: 8theB8
Posted: 7/24/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/24/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Right out of the gate I saw the mythical Lake Whatcom largemouth!! Two of them where in among the pilings to the south of the launch in about 6 feet of water and one of them was an easy 6 pounder! T...
By: zhut
Posted: 8/2/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the South end once again. I was throwing dropshots and shaky heads around all my usual places to no avail. As the sun was going down the fish we're popping everywhere I put a heddon torpedo on ...
By: zhut
Posted: 8/3/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to fish the North end near Bloedell Donovan. Ended up catching 1 dinky smallmouth by the 1st island on the shaky head using a zoom finesse worm of the Red Pumkin variety. Switched over to a ...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 9/13/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2017
Hot Spots: 1
I was headed for Wiser when I remembered the last report and how green and nasty the water was! I pulled up short and headed for Whatcom instead as I hadn't fished it since Spring.
I started down ...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 9/15/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
After hearing about the fishing up on Whatcom Wednesday my wife wanted to run up there to spectate and enjoy the scenery so away we went!
The scenario was the same, fished mainly grubs in deeper wa...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 6/12/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Not a detailed report today as I know there's a tournament on Whatcom this weekend, NOTHING against tournament fishing, just want to see if any of the tourney guys post a report on here after the tour...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/18/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Not my favorite conditions for fishing this lake but I was excited to get back on it for the first time in a few years! I started by running down the west side and pulling in by the rock hump about 1/...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/31/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Nothing to spectacular today, caught fish on grubs, spinnerbait and drop shot. The biggest of the day was only 3lbs and I missed more fish than I caught due to short strikes and follows. Water temps w...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 9/28/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Ran up after work. Launched at 2pm. Meet a fellow fisherman and we were off. I ran straight down to the steep and deep area about mid lake. No wind this trip and it was frigging hot! This pushed ...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 10/15/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I couldn't believe how far down the lake had dropped since my last visit, must have been five feet lower?!!
Water temps were in the high 50's and even though the water was fairly cloudy I had hopes...
By: tmusky1
Posted: 5/27/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Launched around 10 and fished the west side from Firwood south.
Water was 61 degrees and pretty choppy, was throwing a combo of topwater, spinnerbait, and tube. Gray smoke tube produced the only 2 fi...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 6/6/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, one of the most memorable 3.5 hours and 7 fish days I've ever had. I went by myself to lake Whatcom for the first time tonight to try and get my first smallmouth bass on a fly rod. I had the bo...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 10/13/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/13/2018
Hot Spots: 0
First one at the lake this morning as I continue to make the rounds to all of my local haunts now that I'm past the 2018 County Challenge.
I tried topwater first as there were fish rising but prett...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 10/19/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Took today off to target Whatcom before this weekends "tournament". Not cool to show up to a CLOSED boat launch!! :( Knuckleheads decided to paint the parking lot at Bloedel Park...on a frigging Fri...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 10/23/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Got a couple 4's and a few 3's this trip plus a smattering of 1-2.5's!
Magic depth was 25', by 'magic' I mean everything over two pounds was in 25'. The smaller fish were shallower at about 20' a...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 10/27/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I goofed, I thought the Whatcom tournament was LAST weekend. Imagine my surprise when I turned into the parking lot at Bloedel at 6:01 and there were already five rigs in line! AIS was back t...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/3/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Was hoping the smallies weren't too far into the spawn yet. Fished three hours with only a couple drop shot nibbles to show for it, pretty sure they were perch.
Got the first smallie on a break li...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 7/18/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day off with a perch colored inline spinner 3/8oz. Caught some dinks, then a pounder, got down near the rock island on the west side and caught a trout on it, two casts later I caught a po...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 8/1/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Started out of Bloedel and fished the docks on the north end picking up a couple pounders. Got to the bay in the NE corner and missed a nice one in the grass, once on my spinnerbait and again on a sof...
By: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 7/26/2011
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Ill post this report for the last two days. Limit for 2 people yesterday and today, landing 6 fish each day and losing some more also. Today was a little difficult because we went 6-12, losing fish wa...
Posted: 10/14/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Whatcom is still kicking out kokanee. Went today and once late last week, tons of action. Every other one is about 10-11". lots of nice cutthroat also, including a PB 18"er. All fish released the...
By: G-Man
Posted: 8/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I heard that this lake was full of Kokes and just had to give it a shot since we were in the area. The launch at the North end of the lake is 4 lanes and free! Headed out to the deeper part of the l...
By: midget2000x
Posted: 7/12/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This was maybe my 5th or 6th time out to Lake Whatcom. I love the place, but am having a REALLY hard time catching fish consistently. I've been trying for anything that will bite: smallies, trout......
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/14/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2021
Hot Spots: 0
I was targeting Small mouth bass and landed quite a few and My wife was targeting Rainbow trout and caught this huge rainbow trout.
By: DonGorsegner
Posted: 6/2/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
One of my other passions in life is backcountry skiing. A person gets used to going up in the mountains and being cold.......good thing today was one of those days were you put one the chest wades be...
