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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: tbakko
Posted: 6/14/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We got to the lake @ 8am & cruised on down to the island. Started trolling the NE side of the lake in about 80 to 100 ft of watrer. We were using leaded line, as I dont have the DR rigged on the boat ...
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: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 5/8/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
So i went out to test my new trailer on lake whatcom today to do some trout fishing. Fished for kokanee with dick nites on the surface, caught a bunch, they were jumping all over, 2 hit the side of th...
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: 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...
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: 10/3/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/3/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Finally had a break from homework and had a chance to go fishing. Had a friend along that loves to eat perch so decided we would dedicate most the evening to those. Started out trolling from the launc...
By: rappuhd
Posted: 10/8/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Started out trolling for kokanee, and had a lot of takedowns but only managed to get a few cutthroat to the boat. They seemed to be very healthy and I have been catching quite a few when trolling for ...
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: cohoslayerkevin
Posted: 7/29/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Fished lake Whatcom for a few hours Tuesday afternoon.had real good luck around 25 to 50 ft for kokanee dad cought 3 kokanee around 25 ft , the thing is that we have to release cutthroat and the las...
By: cohoslayerkevin
Posted: 5/16/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Got to The Lake With My Dad around 1 launched and got baited up and started trolling right from the launch on south bay winthin 10 mins. had the first fish on at 30 ft on the wire. cutt released unha...
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: 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...
