August 27, 2015
Fishing Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Rating: 8
Weather Conditions: Sunny with clear skies
Bait: Drop Shot with Poor Boy’s Baits Green Pumpkin Drop Shot Darter and Quick Drop 1/4 ounce weight
Rod: Megabass Orochi XX Drop Shot Rod
Reel: Shimano Sustain
Line: 7-pound Sunline Super Sniper FC
Total Bass Caught: 2
Final Weigh in Weight: 3.60 pounds
With lots of rain in the forecast and the start of school quickly approaching, I figured that tonight may be my last day of summer fishing for this year. I didn’t want to waste any time, so I immediately headed to the second point on the right, so that I could fish the drop offs over there. As always, I started by fishing the drop offs marked by the silver and orange marker buoys. I was casting int0 50-60 feet of water and bouncing my worm back up the drop off, but unfortunately I didn’t have much luck with that. This caused me to think that the bass had moved a little shallower, so I moved toward the shore a little and started casting to 30-40 feet of water instead. On my first cast of doing this, I felt my line get heavy, so I set the hook and was able to hook into a nice bass. I got it all the way to the boat, but right before I could get it in, it made a final dive and shook the hook. I did get a good look at the bass and I would estimate it to be 2-3 pounds. I then decided to try the other side of the orange buoy and cast to the right of it. As soon as my weight hit the bottom, I saw my rod load up and my line take off, so I set the hook and was able to get into a huge bass. I fought it for around 2 minutes and struggled to get it into the boat, but eventually I was able to net it and get it on the scale. It came out to be a nice 2.60 pound smallmouth, which is one of the biggest I’ve caught in Lake Sammamish this year. I was excited that I was finally able to get a big bass in the boat, so I continued to fish the same two buoys and drop offs for the next 30 minutes. I got a few more bites, but wasn’t able to hook into anything else, so I decided to move down a bit and fish drop offs on the way. After a little bit of motoring, I finally came to a deep drop off that went from 20 to 50 feet. I cast to the bottom of it, twitched my worm a few times, and was able to hook into another decent bass. This one fought pretty well, but only came out to be a 1 pounder. Since the boat launch was busy and it was getting dark, I decided to call it quits a bit early and head in.
Observations: The water temperature ranged from 72-73 degrees, which shows that the water is slowly cooling down as the weather begins to turn. This temperature change, however slight, has caused the bass to begin to move a little shallower and I caught mine in 20-30 feet of water this time around. The bites that I’m getting all seem to be coming from quality fish and I have had a lot of monster bass on recently, which is encouraging to see. The pattern these days seems to be just finding the steep drop offs around the lake, so I will definitely have to try and find some new ones in the future.