Lake Samish wa,whatcom county

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I live on Lake Samish in washington state near Bellingham.The fishing has been great.I caught a 26 inch cutthroat last week.Latley I have been fishing about 50 ft of water,with a little gitzit minnow jig about 20 inches above a 8th ounce laed with three way swivel to keep the rig tangle free.I tip it with worm and lift it 6 inches off the bottom when I jig.I have been catching a single perch every 3 miniutes.with an equel amount of whitefish biting very hungrily.Today I hooked a nice Kokanee on the same set up I have been using for perch.This lake is full of fish and winter action.Come get some!

[pingu]

sounds good any pics ( love seeing different species)

dave

[Devon Born & Dorset Bred]

Whitefish? Tell me more!!!

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Yeah I have pics

[fullcreel]

Is that anywhere near Ellensburg? Spent some time there back in the od '90s.
Columbia River looked pretty awsome, compared to the small broks we have around here.

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Lake samish is about as pacific northwest as you can get in washington state,before canada.To tell you the truth I miss fishing the Columbia River. I grew up in wenatchee fishing the columbia for huge walleye,smallmouth,summer run chinook,monster steelhead,and enormous Rufus Woods tryploids.In my opinion its my favorite big river to fish.Its tricky finding fish like any big body of water but when you find em there is some hogs out there.My biggest walleye was 16 pounds with 10 and 12 pounders being normal fish.Use green and fish from sunset till about midnight in the spring in about 13-20 feet of water sandy bottom on an inside bend of the river and you will be filling the fryer with big wallys in no time!

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There are tons of whitefish and yellow perch. My most recent discovery while jigging for perch was enormous smallmouth bass that love my little white jig! yesterday I caught two 2 pounders and 25 perch as well as about 12 whitefish. Today I rowed my boat way out on the lake to this underwater plateau. I dropped my jig off the edge slowly slowly down it went,finally bump I touched bottom and noticed the depth dropping. I knew I was right on the edge of that structure perfect! Then all of a sudden my cell rang! It was my girlfriend watching me from the cabin letting me know I forgot my stringer on the deck. Damn I had a decision to make. Either row all the way back and get the stringer or let perch flop all over the bottom of the boat Then WHAMO!! Oh my god I didnt know if my 4 lb test mono would even bring him up he was hooked but I couldnt move him. I was deep about 55 feet I kept the tip up and loosened the drag just enough to prevent a big run from snapping all hope of even getting a look at this monster it must be a bass I thought to myself.Meanwhile Im still on the phone(speaker thankfully) my hands were full .I looked behind me and there it was. My trusty landing net. Slowly slowly I started gaining ground he was moving up but not without a galiant feat of resistance. And there he was a lunker 4.5 pound smallmouth I lifted my rod up high and he slid into my net. Got him!! Well my mind was made up I was rowing back to the cabin. Not for my stringer. For my camera and an early lunch. I fish because I like to eat fish not look at em and turn em loose. I filleted him up and baked it in foil on my george foreman grill with lemon pepper onion and pineapple chunks.,Delicious!! I still have another fillet and bits-n-pieces for dinner tonight. I love this lake