I have been fishing the east side of Sammamish pretty consistently after work (630-10PM) for a few weeks now. I usually launch at my buddies house and work north for an hour or two, then work south for an hour or two. Mainly just work the docks about 5-10min at a time. You can spot me on the east side in a 9' Livingston puttin' around.

For the majority of the time I was using weightless texas rigged senkos. I was able to hook up on a couple little SMB and a lot of perch but nothing much beyond that. Got most of my hits (some felt like decent bass, most were perch) on a senko jig, both weightless and rigged up with a football head (Thanks AMX). Any time I tried crankbait, swimbait or spinnerbait I was skunked. The only time besides Tuesday night that I hooked up on a noteworthy fish was a 3lb largemouth at the north end of the lake I caught ripping the lillys with an aglia in mid June.

On Tuesday night and at about 9:30PM things got good. We were working the docks south of where we launch. We had been skunked for the past two hours and we knew we were due. My buddy decided to switch it up and throw a special lure (plastic) on there that he tears it up with at Potholes. He was working it through the weeds... twitch twitch swim... twitch twitch swim... twitch twitch WHAM! He hooked up on a niceeeee 3.5LB largemouth (we have a scale)!

It was awesome. Perseverance pays off. Will be back to fish on Friday.

- Lunker

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