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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: 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: 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...
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: 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: 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: 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...
