- Brad with big cutty. Hit a spoon jigged in 60 ft of water
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A friend and I been hitting Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish the past couple of weeks with mixed results. We tried targeting the coho from our kayaks in Lake Washington a few weeks back without a bite. We were always a day late and dollar short on when the bite was hot. Still neat to see fish rolling at the surface and jumping around you - though it is a bit frustrating when you see only a couple of nets out on boats around us. On those days we put away the down riggers and swapped them out for lead core line on a kokanee rod. We would catch and release a couple of smaller cutthroat trout those days. Fishing shallow in 18 to 25 feet of water produced quite a few smallmouth bass and perch.
- Todd Smallmouth
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Bass were hitting on everything from spinners to Needlefish spoons. You get anything in front of their face and it's going to get grabbed. Large schools of perch are moving deeper into 40 to 50 feet of water. Jigs, dropshot, worms will produce a bite every drop.
- Fatty smallmouth
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On Monday three of us worked the west side of Mercer Island over to Seward Park and back. Very few fish marks or bait. We spent 4 hours trolling from our kayaks with nothing to show for it. Only a few perch and smallmouth bass in shallow. We got closer to shore on Mercer Island but still in 155 feet of water. I could see a couple of arks on my fish finder withing 10 to 40 feet. Ray was in front of us and was pulling a larger hammered spoon and we saw his line buckle over. He pulled in a nice 18" cutthroat and later a smaller 15" fish.
- Ray with nice cutthroat
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Ray took off with his two fish and Todd and I continued to work this small stretch of water holding fish. I landed a 16" cutthroat that was hooked pretty bad in the eye. I kept him for dinner. Gutting the fish on shore I could see his stomach was full of freshly eaten sticklebacks
- Stickleback in cutthroat bellies
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The lakes will be turning over in the coming weeks and the fish should be moving into shallower water. Maybe we'll see you out there.