Anyone got any reports from Lake Sammamish???
I was thinking of going up and fishing Lake Sammamish and maybe Washington this weekend.

-Nick

Som and I will try Sammamish on Monday.  Hopefully the fish will active.

I was out there for a little bit on saturday and most of the day Sunday.

Saturday caught a 2.5 lb. Smallie in 18 Ft. on a drop shotted KGM Slinky, weather was pretty bad.

Sunday Caught a 3 lber and a 2 lber, both in about 15 feet on a dropshot slinky and a DT Hula Grub on a FB head. Nice warm weather w/ wind later in the day, sunny all day. The North end is LOADED with cruising Largemouth, all were extremely skittish in the clear water, only had one actually take interest.

I feel like I should have spent more time in deeper water. But I didnt due to seeing some good sized perch schools in 5-15 feet.

Also, the Salmon Smolt are all over the place!!! I do not have that much experience on Sammamish and have only caught 1 smallie ever focusing on smolt schools.

Do the smallies ever REALLY focus on the schools of smolt???

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.

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

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.

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!!!

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