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Woo-hoo, another day on the water! After a really busy Saturday, Sunday morning it looked as though it would be a repeat of Saturday. But as luck may have it the fish gods were smiling and I got to fish Lake Samish for a few hours. Arriving at the lake pretty late there were 2 other rigs in the parking lot, one was a bass boat trailer so it looked like I would be sharing the lake with one other boat. After launching I shot up to the smaller lake and started fishing up past the county park.

I was seeing many solid meter marks at 60-90’ so I started running the gear at 58’ and 78’. On one side I was running a orange tractor tire dodger followed by one of the shrimp rigs I tied up for Chelan last year and on the other side of the boat I was running watermelon swing blade followed be a green mini squid. Both saw action but it was slow so I started swapping out gear until I established some level of consistent activity. That said I cycled through numerous setups, some seeing action others not so much. Pictured are the attractors and lures that worked but the green tractor tire/green mini squid/green smile blade combo was solidly the hot ticket. Although I had various flavors of corn on-board the hot bait for the day was Berkley Gulp Play-Dough maggots.

In the few hours that I was out I hooked and lost or hooked and sent to ice chest jail probably 11 or 12 kokanee 10”-13”. I did hook a huge one but as I was netting it the top hook got tangled in the net and the fish broke off the lower hook to reclaim his freedom. It was kind of a bummer, every year my boat manages to get one large kokanee during the late fall but I don’t mind enhancing the genetic cauldron in Lake Samish with this bruits genes.

It was a well deserved few hours on the water. The weather was tolerable and I took home a limit of Lake Samish kokanee, to me a fantastic afternoon.

strikezone

11/2/2014 8:48:00 PM

rseas: What a nice bunch of Kokes! Great report! I grew up just north of there in Ferndale and have been by there a million times, but I've never fished it. Nice boat too. I also have a black 2011 Lund 1650 Renegade set up pretty close to the way yours is. I love fishing out of mine, both on lakes and on the Columbia river for salmon. I mostly fish Lake Merwin down here. It's an hour drive for me. I hope to head over and try fishing out of Fort Spokane on Lake Roosevelt after Thanksgiving if the weather gets good. Anyway, just wanted to say way to go. Glad you had a nice day up there. Tight Lines.

Denny

Toni

11/3/2014 10:36:00 AM

Great report and catch!

Hunter757

11/4/2014 11:56:00 AM

Great report and some good looking fish!! I really like your boat as well very nice.

tyee4me

11/6/2014 12:24:00 AM

Awesome post and nice ride. =)

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