I went out to Sammamish on Sat. Afternoon with my mom. We saw Chris on the way out, and we got to experience some less than experienced pleasure boaters drop off their boat halfway onto the concrete. 

Total count was 3 Smallmouth, all in about 10 feet or so on docks, dropshotting a KGM Slinky in Pearl with black and gold flake. Noticed the salmon smolt are also in the lake right now, saw one school, that was it. Caught them off the deeper corner of docks. Biggest one went around 3 pound and the others about 2 lbs.

For my mom, this time she caught more docks than fish, she hooked 4 docks and no fish for this outing, but she is getting better and getting ready for the JAMBOREEE!!!!

I read that report on WA lakes.  Sounded like a great time.  Can't wait for Mike to get the video online.

Man...I should've gone there instead of Meridian yesterday.   I caught one fish on a bed and saw a monster bass that was probably 8-10lbs cruising.  My buddy at first thought it was a carp.

Hey Mark, it was a cool video until you took your hat off!

Our family has a nice leisurely fishing day at Sammamish. We began with a 8 am breakfast at Denny's in Issaquah and hit the water about 9:45 am, fishing the docks north of the sunken forest.

Katie caught a 1 3/4 lb smallie on a Tiny-T spinnerbait about 20 minutes into fishing. She just learned to cast last night - and it turns out she's good at it. She said that the reason she didn't like fishing the other times we went was that she got bored because she only got to reel in. She casted that spinnerbait for about 1 1/2 hours before she switched to a worm because she got tired.

Ryan spent a good 40 minutes working a bed and caught a solid 3 lb smallie that he is going to turn in on a greenslip. It was his first bass over 1 lb - and I finally got to see that excitement that I have been waiting for in him that comes from catching your first big bass.

We let the kids run the boat for awhile and were off the lake by 12:45 pm. Finally, a perfect day of fishing WITH the family, and hearing my son say that this was his favorite day of fishing ever.

Priceless...

Stu

thats what its all about stu priceless moments as for me i spent the day cleaning sand out of my boat from potholes and changing an impeller....hitting a dune at those speeds ....pricleess

Sight fish for some fish with my buddy yesterday and I landed 5 smallies between 1.7-3.1lbs and my buddy landed a smallie and largie both at 2.7lbs.  He also caught a few nice crappie as well.

Hit Sammamish on Wednesday with my Dad.  Had beautiful weather and a decent bite.  Fished from 8:30 to 1:30 and we got 12 fish with the best 5 going around 14.5 lbs.  Grubs were the ticket.  Today Jose and I fished it in the crappy weather.  The bite was SLOW but steady.  I had 9 fish for the day and Jose got one.  ( better luck next time Jose ).  The good thing was that 6 of my fish were good quality fish with the best 5 going around 15.5 lbs.  Hope the quality sticks around for me come July on the BASS tourney.  Again grubs were the ticket.

Mark