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By: salmonbarry
Posted: 4/11/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The only reason I rated this a 2 is because we live is such a wonderful state where you can work all day then be able to go out and spend a beautiful evening on a lake and maybe catch a fish or two! ...
By: Mong_fisherman
Posted: 4/11/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to hit American Lake after getting off work at 3:30 pm. Windy as heck which made fishing difficult. Caught an 11-12" 'bow that put up a good fight and nearly took my rod off the dock. Compl...
By: blurock
Posted: 4/10/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/8/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Well after a dismal start to the year, with a wrecked truck, and my boat torn apart for a month longer than I expected while switching from center console to a tiller, I've finally gotten back in the ...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 4/9/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
So today being the calm before the storm, I really wanted to get out today to American lake for a shot at my first Kokanee there in 2 years. Got to the launch at around 4:30 and started my troll acr...
By: larryw
Posted: 4/8/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Tom and I hit the lake about 2:30 with not much going on. Trolled over by the Lakewood boat dock
and started picking up a few trout.We used pop gear with a red wedding ring and night crawler. Trolled...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/8/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This was my first venture out by myself this year. In old Ol’ Girl.
It was overcast and breezy which made it feel cold. Only a few short sprinkles the whole time I was out there from 12-3pm.
I had ...
By: remy13
Posted: 4/7/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished american from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. Water was pretty rough, but I stayed pretty dry. Trolled the north end. Used pink hootchie with corn and gold flatfish. They were hitting both. I used 3/4 oun...
By: Nangusdog
Posted: 4/7/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Weather was rainy and windy but I just couldn't stay home so I threw the kayak on the Jeep and hit American lake. Got on the water around 8:00 and fished in the cold rain for about three hours flatlin...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 4/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
So since this was the 1 year anniversary of my 5lb 25" trout from American lake ( you can see last years post!) I really wanted to get out and try it again after 2 dismal days on Lake Wa.
I had ...
By: OldVet
Posted: 4/1/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We got on the water about 11:00AM and fished for five hours. There was a pretty stiff and cold breeze blowing most of the day. We drug everything in our tackle boxes, used shoepeg corn, worms, downrig...
By: gfakkema
Posted: 3/31/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/30/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Got to the launch around noon. Met Lou Smith and had a brief conversation with him while I was launching the boat. He told me that all the kokes were in the top 10'-15'. He said he was marking them wh...
By: Slacktime
Posted: 3/28/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My birthday today so I decided to wet a line. Got to American around 8am with no luck until about 10am we caught 4 trout total with largest at 16", 1 @ 14" and 2 @ 12"ish. Overall a good morning fishi...
By: bellett0728
Posted: 3/28/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/28/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Put the boat in the water at 830am and trolled in front of bills boat house and hooked into one by the old castle but never got to see it, after that not a single bite all day between the two of us. ...
By: Racer
Posted: 3/27/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had nothing better to do so I went out to American today. The lake was flat calm for the most part. I fished around the west side, north of silcox and south of silcox but could not get a bite. I threw...
By: OldVet
Posted: 3/25/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day, we got on the lake about noon and caught four nice 14 inch rainbows. As soon as the sun went behind the clouds the fish quit biting. It was a great day fishing with my brother. I used ...
By: snake7676
Posted: 3/24/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well I got to the free boat launch at around 11:30 am on 3-23-13 and there was a dozzen trailers in the lot water was like glass comparried to the last few times out . headed south down to the net pe...
By: Boxermom66
Posted: 3/23/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/23/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Took my four year old grandson fishing for his first time today. Fished from the dock at Bill's Boathouse. At 12:30pm, my grandson caught his first fish: an 18 inch, 2 pound 13 ounce, rainbow trout (m...
By: ricker
Posted: 3/23/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We got on the water about 9:30 this morning I just put a new Lowrance elite 5 on my boat yesterday it works amazing marked fish all over the lake from 40ft and up started out at 35 ft got one on at a...
By: Mike@Bills
Posted: 3/19/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Another beautiful day on American Lake! The sun came out for a while and the wind was almost not there most the day.
Sometimes I don't feel like posting but don't think its fair to only post the "...
By: Mike@Bills
Posted: 3/18/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
The wind was blowing like crazy but After having knee surgery on Tuesday of last week I was dying to get out and do some fishing!
I caught 1 that was right around 15 inches and 2 that were in the 8...
By: lingcod67
Posted: 3/11/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Second time in 10 days... 2 bites last Saturday, no fish. 2 bites today one nice 14-16 incher lost by the boat, one 14 incher in the boat. Cowbells and a worm seems to be the ticket. There was a fly ...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 3/9/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/9/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Targeting a species and catching one of them are two different things; especially when it comes to kokanee! Trolled from 0800 to noon and picked up this 14 1/2" cutt on an 80 foot longline out in fron...
By: jd39
Posted: 3/4/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day fishing yesterday for us. Buddy and I launched around 10am and fished until 3:30ish. We tried trolling, still fishing, drift fishing, nothing seemed to work. We got a few bites with all m...
By: Mong_fisherman
Posted: 3/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Setup.
6-8 ft leader
1/2 oz to 1/4 oz weight
Mike's Herring scent
Fluorescent yellow or Lime Green eggs
Caught several 5-7 inch rainbow fries. Released all of them. Caught 1-12 inch (released...
By: SoDakboy
Posted: 3/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/2/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Never fished American Lake before, my buddy and I live in Bremerton, after reading an article on kokanee we decided to try it. Left the WDFW boat launch and trolled out to the south west corner of th...