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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: zhut
Posted: 9/18/2017
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Instead of going to my usual spot to use the same lure to catch the same Bass, I decided to fish for Perch. I caught a few near the shore around pilings on slip float with a crappie tube. Its an optio...
By: visanick
Posted: 6/21/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Great lake, better luck next time.
Posted: 10/3/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Great morning on Whatcom for me. Sorry darksiders, five stars but no bass!! I was targeting smallies from the get go, trolling and casting deep diving perch and blue colored rap's. 8-30 ft, nothing...
By: Tom H
Posted: 12/14/2018
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/8/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing a small lake in Whatcom County and got my best largemouth ever! 7lbs 10.0Z on a Baby Bass Crankbait. Took a few pics and released him to fight another day. What a blast.
By: 8theB8
Posted: 8/8/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
When I pulled my trailer out of the lake I knew it would probably be a short trip :O, I expected weedy but good Lord! I even packed along my push pole just in case and to save a little battery but it ...
By: rseas
Posted: 5/5/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I’m not even sure where to start with this one. For work, the last couple of weeks I’ve been out on the water almost every day. I have Sundays off and we considered doing a land-based adventure today ...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 5/12/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2019
Hot Spots: 0
After a short weeknight trip two nights before when my friend and i caught 16 keepers in just over 2 hours my buddy and i were pretty confident we had Whatcom dialed in. Friday morning i needed to be...
By: JoshH
Posted: 5/27/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to try Whatcom for the first time. I launched from the South launch around 6am. Soon as I got the Hobie out past the buoy markers I dropped my line in the water. It was odd kokanee fishing wit...
By: Salmonids
Posted: 5/28/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the water today. The only thing holding me back from a full 5 star rating was the size of the Kokanee. Let a third of them go due to small size. Few in the six inch range. The “bigger” fi...
By: JoshH
Posted: 8/16/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/15/2020
Hot Spots: 1
Met my brother at the south end launch of Lake Whatcom to fish kokanee in the Hobie's. I like to get up to Whatcom at least once a year, while the kokanee are small, the action is always good and the ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/1/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2021
Hot Spots: 2
I'd heard about the kokanee on this lake being a source for kokanee fry throughout Washington and was interested to give it a try. With rseas on board and NWFR writer Hanna Pennebaker and film assista...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 6/21/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/20/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the weeknights of having lake whatcom to myself are gone. I realized as soon as I pulled in that things were different, with 80+ degree weather and the kids out of school the beach was buzzing ...
By: Kisutch
Posted: 7/8/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
After a long day of losing Kokanee all you can do is laugh and shake your head.
On Wednesday (4th of July) I took advantage of the new kokanee limit on Lake Whatcom, and along with two other peop...
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: 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: Anonymous
Posted: 4/18/2009
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Living just minutes from samish I can't help but fish it pretty regularly. I love trolling, and am a big time salmon angler so when I'm not out chasing bigger fair I often find myself hunting "trophy...
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: Liquid metal
Posted: 5/24/2009
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
First time to Whatcom this year. Sunny/Bright-water temp 56 deg. Started out casting for bass with rapalas(perch and crawdad) ended the morning trolling same lures down at the far end catching the cut...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/2/2001
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/2001
Hot Spots: 0
I guide Lake Whatcom and jiminy Christmas do I feel lucky. Right now the fish are in a pre-spawn mode. Crank Baits are a hot commodity right now fishing 4- 10 feet. Some fish are starting to go onto b...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2002
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I have many fishing memories on lake whatcom because I live right across the street from the lake. The first time I went fishing there was a couple days after I moved in and I caught about 30 5 - 10 ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/29/2000
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Well we just got home from the lake. This was the first time that either my son have fish Whatcom Lake. We hit the water late, about 9:00am. The weather started out pretty nice but soon started to rai...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/29/2000
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/29/2000
Hot Spots: 0
The smallmouth were hot for my partner, for me I caught a single
nice rainbow. My partner caught 8 nice smallmouth. Hooray for opening
day!!!!
