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By: FishingFool
Posted: 9/12/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Back on the water on Sammamish. It's been a while.
It's COLD in the mornings now. Vehicle said 48 degrees at the launch. When I dipped my toes into the water to launch, it felt so warm. Rather ...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 9/6/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with AMX and Jesusfish for a friendly fish off at Lake Meridian. I've never fished a "tournament" before, so it's a bit foreign to me. But I know how to catch some fish, even if they are sma...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 8/26/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to start the day off on a point with pilings. As I was sneaking up to the area, I saw my sonar light up at 30'. Marked it quickly and used swimbait and cranks around the point. Then the DS....
By: FishingFool
Posted: 8/25/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to visit the old stomping grounds today.
1st thing I noticed was the water looks low.
I decide to head towards the south side along the Kent Kangley road. As I'm sneaking up there, I se...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 8/20/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Slept in, went to lake late.
Noticed 5-6 boats at the launch bay area and mouth of creek trolling around. I guess salmon run is on?
Choppy and windy out on the lake. Was a wet ride. Found so...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 8/19/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing at ~8:45AM on a point where I've had some success. No bass there today. Saw lots of small bluegills(??) and perch.
Boated away to a deep dock with rocks along shore. Ran a crank...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 8/8/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful morning. First cast at 8:20AM. Starting off in the shallows with a crank. Started to move out a little deeper and 1st fish of the day is a perch.
Start working a point with the crank a...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 8/7/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2014
Hot Spots: 1
This morning, the marine layer was much lighter than yesterday. Can see some blue.
First cast at ~8:10AM. Since I had the cloud cover and water was smooth enough at the fishing spot, I decided t...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 8/6/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/6/2014
Hot Spots: 1
That marine layer in the morning. Feels good, until the boat starts moving. Had to put on my sweater.
1st cast at 8:30AM. Started off with a swimbait in ~10' of water and working towards the sha...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 7/30/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2014
Hot Spots: 1
1st cast at about 8:30AM.
Saw some surface activity, so I tried my weightless jerkbait for a bit again. Just pecking and nipping from perch.
Switch up and fan cast with a dropshot in ~12' of wa...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 7/29/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Wanted to try something a bit different today, so I started the day off with a weightless soft jerkbait.
Kept getting nips from perch. Started off shallow at first and worked myself out into deep...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 7/16/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
No cloud cover today, just bright blue sky.
Started off on the west side, at a point, first cast at about 8:30AM, with a crank. Mixed in with swimbait and dropshot.
First hour, nothing but perc...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 7/15/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First cast, at about 8:20AM. Lower clouds. Water calm enough, so I want to try and catch something on top water. 5 mins in and I get a strike, but that was it. After about 20 mins or so, wind pick...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 7/11/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Decide to head out to Sammamish again today. I wanted to go back to that dock I missed the last fish on. So I headed directly to it. Hmmmm, I see a boat about 100 yards past that dock, going the ot...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 7/10/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Today, I wanted to try something a bit different. Had to put gas in the boat too. After doing that, I boated to the north end of the lake and hoping to target some largemouth for a bit.
As I wa...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 7/9/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing again at Sammamish today. Still feeling sick, but body doesn't ache as much.
Pretty sure I bumped into a WALA member at the launch..... Which one of you was it? LOL
At the launc...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 7/8/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fighting everything in me to bother putting a 2. Might as well be a 1.
I'm sick. Cold/flu, dunno. Body is fatigued. Went fishing. Caught 1 dink on swimbait. Lost a bigger dink at boat side....
By: FishingFool
Posted: 7/2/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to try and fish the south end of the lake today. Got to the launch and wow, the lake is breezy! Made my way past the state park swimming area and started fishing in that fresh looking lill...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/26/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Woke up this morning at 6AM to rain. Check the radar and looked like it will rain for a quite a while, so I went back to sleep, since I didn't want to get my boat wet. Tee Hee
At 1:30PM, apparentl...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/20/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I heard rain overnight. Woke up and checked radar. It's clear but definitely cloudy out.
A bit on the chilling side again. Yesterday, I fished only on the west side of the lake. Since it's clou...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/19/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to Sammamish. Couldn't sleep all night. Then happen to doze off for about 30 mins, then woke up to go fishing....
Tube, old swimbait, old dropshot, crank and t-rig worm.
First cast at ...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/11/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Last minute change of plans allowed me freedom to fish today. Beautiful morning and day out on the water. Was a tad bit on the chilly side though to start off. Low 50s to maybe mid 50s.
Was gree...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/6/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This report is from 6/2-6/6. Camped at Potholes State Park.
Monday, 6/2. We arrived late and by the time we ate and setup camp and ready to fish, it was about 5:30PM. Started off along the rip-r...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 5/21/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to hit Meridian today to do my once or twice a year run at it. Didn't get on the water until about 8:45AM. I didn't make my first cast until 9AM. Was still setting up and making my way arou...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 5/20/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Picked up SammamishYak this morning and started fishing at about 8:45AM. Didn't take long to land our first fish. Unfortunately, I hooked a small squaw.
Moved to a different area on the lake an...
