DjButler
10/31/2016 6:51:00 AMAwesome man! thanks for sharing your set up. I may give it a try on Lake Wa! i plan to hit it hard this fall!
reelinanrockin
10/31/2016 4:10:00 PMCouple of those fish look liked they have forked tails. If they are Kokanee you can't keep them in sammamish.
rmrauscher
10/31/2016 4:26:00 PMYeah I know about release Kokanee in Lk Sammamish. Those are all cutthroat.
reelinanrockin
11/1/2016 12:21:00 PMIt's reely a odd rule in that lake because the Kokanee are hatchery raised and they cutts are native natural spawning. You would think the rules would be opposite.
FishingTenor
11/1/2016 11:22:00 PMNice catch of cutties. I am pretty sure that the Kokanee in Sammamish are not from the hatchery any more. I grew up there and there were plentiful numbers of Kokanee then, and large Sockeye runs to the hatchery. Maybe I have missed the runs, but haven't seen too many at the hatchery for several years...
reelinanrockin
11/2/2016 12:10:00 PMThey raise Kokanee in the hatchery and plant them in the feeder streams around the lake. King county pays for the program. They have put thousands of them in the lake the last couple of years. The cutts spawn natural and are native species. There is lots of articles on the web about this. To me it just shows how misguided the regulations for fishing in our state have become. I fished days out there where I caught 3 Kokanee for every cutt.
riverhunter
11/2/2016 6:55:00 PMKokanee have no rosy cheeks and when in spawning colors there heads turn green. So I would agree that this are most likely cutthroat or rainbows
wafisherman20
11/15/2016 3:59:00 PMgreat report rmrauscher. Sammamish is such a wonderful lake (its my home-base) and glad to see such great success. I found myself out of state for college, but i am coming home for thanksgiving and am giving it a go again. (my mom and gracie the wonder-dog will be fishing with me of course)
those slow death hooks are a real hot tip for slow days as well. i have had great success with the slow death when the fishing is extremely slow (really saved the skunk a few times). i especially use slow death in the fall, when the perch are moving away from the docks and into the open water. they create a great mixed bag. For some reason those hooks seem to keep kokanee off for the most part as well... always great for this lake.
as far as the fish you caught (for others reading the comments), those are all look great and legal. good size too. here is another way of telling the species: notice how the mouth of the fish comes all the way to the back/past the eye of the fish, that means its a good fish. the kokanee have smaller mouths that do not pass the eye. "when in doubt, check the mouth". there are hybrids in the lake apparently...cut-bows, and now i heard of a kokanee trout hybrid do exist. throw back the kokanee-trout according to the WDFW, but i have never seen one.
thanks again for the great report and tight lines!
those slow death hooks are a real hot tip for slow days as well. i have had great success with the slow death when the fishing is extremely slow (really saved the skunk a few times). i especially use slow death in the fall, when the perch are moving away from the docks and into the open water. they create a great mixed bag. For some reason those hooks seem to keep kokanee off for the most part as well... always great for this lake.
as far as the fish you caught (for others reading the comments), those are all look great and legal. good size too. here is another way of telling the species: notice how the mouth of the fish comes all the way to the back/past the eye of the fish, that means its a good fish. the kokanee have smaller mouths that do not pass the eye. "when in doubt, check the mouth". there are hybrids in the lake apparently...cut-bows, and now i heard of a kokanee trout hybrid do exist. throw back the kokanee-trout according to the WDFW, but i have never seen one.
thanks again for the great report and tight lines!