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By: nerka nailer
Posted: 4/18/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Today, I went out on the water with two friends from work. We started fishing about 7:30 in the morning. We had three limits of fish by 11:00 in the morning. Most of the fish were between 12-13 inches...
By: bruceka49
Posted: 4/18/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I've fished American Lake several times the last three weeks with modest success each time out. I haven't been skunked and released fish some days. I've been using primarily pop gear and wedding ring...
By: smokey34
Posted: 4/16/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Good day - Hit the water at the PC Park launch at 7 AM. Covered the usual sports and marked lots of Koks at 35-40 ft - they're starting to school it appears. No takedowns. Using Kok gear - sling bl...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 4/16/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Only one Kokanee, but it is the first fishing trip this year and the first Kokanee. My wife got it on a squyddy thang yellow behind a pink DD dodger with red fire corn and Kokanee glow scent. It also ...
By: DEREKnEM
Posted: 4/13/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
A couple of buddies and myself decided to see if the kokes were biting. When we arrived the weather was looking really good compared to Saturdays unstable weather! We didn't expect the fishing to be r...
By: Ford Fender
Posted: 4/12/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/12/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Arrived just after 6 am and launched in my little 10' boat in relatively choppy water. Headed left out of the launch and trolled a wedding ring behind a clown dodger with 1/2 oz of lead. Once the su...
By: nickbell
Posted: 4/12/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/12/2015
Hot Spots: 1
My Dad and I went back to the boathouse today and had a much better time. We showed up at around 6:30, and fished with slip bobbers and worms. The bite took a little while to get going, but we event...
By: larryw
Posted: 4/10/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/10/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Hit the lake around 3:30 today it was windy but not a lot of rain. Boated 8 or 9 trout in an hour and a half and lost a couple more. I was trolling a Rebel crawfish crankbait and couldn't keep them o...
By: Sheepdog981
Posted: 4/10/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2015
Hot Spots: 2
A long but decent day out on 'Merican yesterday. Blue has been our best color the past two weeks (Used every color in my arsenal). I used a homemade set-up: spin-n-glo with some blue beads and a Musta...
By: Slammin8er
Posted: 4/9/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Trolled American this morning. No Kokanee 6 Trout. Launched around 7:30, bite shut off at 9:00. Small skirts and mini wedding ring w/ corn. Most between the island and the hospital close to the surfac...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/5/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I didn't get my safety chain on my trailer fixed by Friday so F24’s Glen and Cami offered to take me out Sat. morning on their boat. We met at 6:30am and launched. It was cold. There was a breeze mo...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 4/5/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water for an afternoon of enjoyment. Got there around 12:30 or so and headed out to what the lake had to offer today. Saw a few memebers on the way out they were heading in and had got nothi...
By: Sheepdog981
Posted: 4/4/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/4/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Caught trout all day long, limited out. Average size 13-15" trolling "clown" and "pink splatter" dodgers and blue and orange wedding rings 8-11' feet down on the downriggers. No Kokes yet.
By: Chuck Leatherman
Posted: 4/4/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/4/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Ended up limiting out on rainbow by 10 AM hooked one Kokanee 52 degrees for water temperature finished 15 to 20 feet with downrigger's
By: nickbell
Posted: 4/4/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This is my first report in quite some time.
I was pretty distracted with school for just about all of 2014. Hardly got to do any fishing. I'm finally getting back into the groove, so I planned a ...
By: rythefisherman
Posted: 4/2/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/2/2015
Hot Spots: 3
BEST DAY ON AMERICAN EVER, for us at least!! Caught 9 nice trout, largest about 14 inches, and none under 9 inches. All very healthy. Trolled in front of the VA hospital, and had a double right off th...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 4/2/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished in the morning at 1000. Caught a limit of trout all around 13 inches. All caught on a hoochie and down rigger set at 8 feet down and 60 pulls back. Used canned shoepeg corn dipped in sand shrim...
By: Nitrobass8
Posted: 3/31/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake about 11:00 and fished to 6:00. We caught 8 smallmouth on reaction baits. The biggest smally went just under 4lbs. Also got a 5lb rainbow fishing for bass.. All were released back into...
By: greenrowboat
Posted: 3/30/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Drifted downwind without power while trolling worms,orange power-bait, DickNite, orange flatfish and spinner lures. Had some fun, especially on the 15". Lost a nice bow (16-17") on the third air jum...
By: Stuffy
Posted: 3/30/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Met my partner and his daughter at the North launch about 1pm. The wind was picking up but not a show stopper. We trolled north of the island and north bay, but no luck on Koks. We did pick up a rainb...
By: greenrowboat
Posted: 3/28/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Nice sunny day; American Lake, no skiers 'till I was leaving. trolling worms caught an 11, 12, 13, and 14" Rainbow, 13" fought the most. 2# leader 4', single split. Read that pics are good... two were...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 3/28/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake before light and pounded the west side for 5 hours. Nothing but a couple bows when we got tired of the downrigger troll. Water temp was only 51..so we could have a few more days. Good mor...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 3/26/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/26/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Well after a some heavy duty cleaning and waxing and installing almost everything I decided it was time for the maiden voyage for my new to me boat. Its a 2005 Weldcraft Maverick 182 DV with extended...
By: jford0731
Posted: 3/25/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/25/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Trolled around at American today from about 1130 to 3:30 PM. Wind was really bad and there were only one other boat out. I nailed a small trout right off the dock at JBLM. Went to the north part of th...
By: bassman72
Posted: 3/23/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/22/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Decided to try American after a failed trip to Spanaway last week. Headed out after church and got there about 1:30. Decided to try a little shallow water snice I found a cove area with water temps a...