I concur...very nice fish Chris!

Thanks Glenn.  Gave it a full day with the cloud cover.  Tryed for some LM early by the launch, no go.

NICE summer smallies!  Great job at weeding out the dinks to find the bigger ones.  That's a nice tournament bag!

Worked hard for these babies.  Caught dinks, a couple perch (the ones that are big enough to get hooked) and 2.5, 2.7, 3.2 and 3.7 lbers.  A TON of perch in the water, hope these fish are more football-like soon !!

Me and Susan hit Sammamish this morning for 5 hours before a WAlakes.com BBQ/picnic.  The perch are schooled up and all over some areas.  I have seen an absence of perch in Lake Washington this year so was surprised to see that.  I got 2 decent fish, Susan caught a dink smallie, perch, and 2 squawfish.  Squaw's in Sammamish, anyone else catch them often ?? 
My fish went 3.0 and 1.8 lbs.  Dropshots on both.  Don't throw a perch colored spinnerbait, you will get a peck bite every cast. 

The only thing I would add would be some kind of reaction bait, either a small shallow-running crankbait or a spinnerbait tied on a spinning rig. This is simply because I found that Nancy got bored just "dragging" lures around and needed to be a little more active to keep her interested. At least this will keep your wife active and she can practise casting, overhand and sidearm.

The other thing with soft plastics is to show her the action (in clear, shallow water, a pool or even a bathtub) so she can see how a small twitch of the rod can make a lure dance, especially a Senko, or dropshot.

Faz

You only need one rig to make her successful at first... a carolina rigged lizard or tube, especially for Roosevelt. Two years ago, that is all my wife used in the flat across from Plum Point. We won the tourney and she caught most of the fish. No casting, just lightly thumbing the spool to drop the rig to the bottom.

Stu

Patience Thomas....Patience.
Tie up three rods for her....
1). A Senko...weightless. For docks trees etc....
2). A Splitshot rig. for Brush Hogs, senkos and lizards...
3). A Texas Rig. for tubes...lizards worms etc...

These rigs can catch most anything in our lakes and dont cause folks to get overwelmed with the selections and constant re-tieing....she will fish these and when SHE is ready she will want to try more things. After you set her up with the three rigs just let her know how to fish them and that she should switch back and forth through the three.....women just seem to need to find what works for them so give her the run of your plastics and I guarantee she will find a hideous gaudey colored rig that will indeed catch more fish than you!!!

Went out to the lake today to teach my hunny how to fish, in preparation for the J&J tourney on Roosevelt, after a good 3 hours of trying different techniques, she finally got a dink on a tube, which by the way was her first bass ever. The water temp was reading 70 degrees but was having no luck in finding anything bigger than 10 inches. But, did not think it would be so difficult in trying to explain different methods of fishing to her. Any one got any tips I could use to make it easier for her and me?

Thomas

Took my nephew to his first bass fishing outing and he managed to get a 3lb largie on a bed to bite after nearly 2 hours of battle.  I really wanted the female which was double the size of the male, but she wasn't interested in anything we threw at her.  I couldn't get any smallies today.

Som and I hit Samm. after the Potholes and managed 7.  Som caught a 1lb smallie and a 2lb largie off a bed.  I managed a 2.0, 3.0, 3.0, 3.2, and 3.3lb smallmouth dropshotting between 15-20ft.  Water temp was sitting around 60-62.

Hit Sam on Monday and got 5 smallies with the largest 3.2lbs.  Got a few off beds in the North end of the lake.  All came on sand colored bolt grubs.  Smolt are everwhere....
Ray

Yeah, I was trying a trout colored X-Rap through the schools to no avail and didnt get bit. Bu I could see how there are SOOO MANY schools of Smolt in Sammamish right now that you have to hit the right school that is getting chomped on by the smallies.

They definitely focus on schools of smolts! When you see smolts jumping try twitching a jerkbait or slim 5" senko over the school... even over deep water.

Last year I caught a smallmouth on a topwater when I saw the smolt jumping and yesterday I caught the second fish on a trout color jerkbait around the smolt.