Search
Sammamish Fishing Reports
Change View:
By: dkelliott3
Posted: 9/29/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Sammamish Cutthroats are like a box of Chocolates.
Unlike Saturday's 18" Resident cutt, last night I hooked up with an 18" Searun cutt.
These pictures show the contrast between the 'homebodi...
By: gort
Posted: 10/2/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great time fishing with The Quadfather on his boat out on Lake Sammamish this morning. We were trolling for cutthroat trout with downriggers, using green splatter back mini hootchies along with ...
By: earchcobber
Posted: 10/14/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
on the water around 11.trolled around the creek for a little,nothing.went to west side and got one.trolled out to weather station and things really picked up.30-40ft on downriggers with an r&k spinner...
By: danm
Posted: 10/20/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I had to try my new Minn Kota i-pilot auto pilot to see how it performs together with the gas kicker and see if it gets my boat where I want it to, without too much hand involved, and yes it works! So...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/30/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Co worker offered a spot on his boat for some fishing on Sammamish. How could I pass it up?? On the water @ 6:45-off @12:30. Tried various colors and depths. A lot of fish surfacing w/ no bites though...
By: natenez
Posted: 1/1/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with a friend for those cutts. Got a few, but lots of Kokanee (released of course). We tried up sizing the lures to focus on the cutts, but even caught kokes on large flatfish. Silly fish ...
By: hydra
Posted: 1/2/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
was slow getting started then we all 3 got one within an hour or so. biggest one came off the downrigger, we all used differenty gear and depths, different colors, didnt realy mater much. all had a fe...
By: que
Posted: 1/9/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This report is abit late, however better late then never.
The last week of 2011 was well spent on Lake Sammamish.
Most years I would spend the month of December down on the Old Nisqually River
chas...
By: hydra
Posted: 1/14/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
braved the elements today because...why not.navigated sammamish white caps for a couple hours, trolled with wind, under wind power only, took a couple greenhorns out to cath some fish,. the one pole h...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 1/29/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had unexpected day off from work on the 26th, so I called up another forum member here,"Centershock", i.e. Thomas, and headed to lake Samammish to troll for cutthroat.
We launched about 0915. The...
By: dkelliott3
Posted: 1/30/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Boy-howdy, it was rainy Sunday.
Not another vehicle in the lot.
Started at 2:00 and out by the Bouy the bite was on.
At least for the first hour. 3 Cutts for the smoker, and 3 released Bluebacks...
By: natenez
Posted: 1/31/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Sammamish the other day with some friends. We tried all our usual spots. Not a single cutt, but we did get a number of kokanee (all released, of course).
My guess is the cutts are mostly in t...
By: earchcobber
Posted: 2/5/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
got on the lake at 9.motored out to weather station and droped gear to 35 ft.nothing for first hour.changed up to bug eye spinner with gulp maggot and started catching fish.first 3 were kokes,released...
By: dkelliott3
Posted: 2/13/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Yes, Kokanee.
The two of us went home with a total of 2 Cutts, and we caught and released 8 Kokes. Recently it's been 2:1, but Saturday, 4:1.
Sheesh, at this rate I should probably go barbless to p...
By: hydra
Posted: 2/14/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Samm with a couple good friends, I used led line on a 9 foot fly rod with an old ford fender and a "kieths Wonder" haha tiped with worm! the fish like it! I like it!! Tom and Craig had their be...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/23/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to try my luck at sammamish again for cutthroat. In the last 2 times I have caught one. Today I was trying plugs, needlefish, and spoons hoping to keep the kokanee off but to no avail. It seem...
By: earchcobber
Posted: 3/11/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
fished for cutts for 4 hours.got 10 kokanee.these kokes are getting to be a pain.no cutthroat today for me.some of the kokanee had shoulders.in 2-3 years this might be like wallowa in oregon,or palmer...
By: earchcobber
Posted: 5/14/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished bug eye spinners with worms at 40ft on the downrigger. Trolled between 1.4 and 1.6 any slower or closer to the top kokanee city. Cutts full of salmon smolt. We ended up with 4 cutts for the eff...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/8/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Me and a friend went on Lake Sammamish today since I had the day off and tried the Northern end of the lake. For the past 10 days or so, there has been pretty light winds although the weather has been...
By: hydra
Posted: 12/11/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/11/2011
Hot Spots: 2
Friend and I hit lake Sammamish today with some hot coffee. Weather was actualy not bad considering December 11th. Shot to the north end and zig zag our way south caught 2 lost one. used different gea...
By: nrouth
Posted: 12/12/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a good time on the lake. We took about 20 strikes but only managed to land a few. Used a dodger and a wedding ring tipped with a worm. Caught some kokanees too but let them go.
By: hydra
Posted: 12/26/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Alway nice t' get ou' on this lake, we all got somethin', Lots o' bug hatch goin' on an' th' fish be full o' fly. most caught north o' weather station. varrious lure me sil'er an' red needle fish did ...
By: Roosterpie
Posted: 5/20/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Spent the morning trolling Sammamish. Slow for me. Two strikes and one monster on right in front of the creek. Lost it right at the side of the boat. Watched another boat though pick up one or two wit...
By: earchcobber
Posted: 5/20/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
fished past weather station on the south side.pink bug eye lure with worm.30-40 ft down.1.2 -1.6 mph on gps.9 kokes put back.2 were over 2 pounds.5 cutts to boat,3 kept,2 put back to get bigger.don't ...
By: fishchaser
Posted: 5/26/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to lake to put time on my new Yamaha kicker but decided to fish also. Trolled around the weather station . I had four strikes and two fish. Kept a 14 incher and lost a 12 incher at the bo...
