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By: fisher2222
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2012
Hot Spots: 3
We caught 2 rainbows used downriggers and wedding rings great day watched air show from the lake .
By: jimdixon
Posted: 7/14/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at 6a.m. trolled from boat launch to VA and back. Threw everything in the tackle box at them and nothing.
By: Racer
Posted: 7/10/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had a pretty good day on the water. I started out looking for the nearly absent kokanee but wound up with 3 rainbow, 1 cutthroat, and one 17" triploid. I started out with one hootchie pink and white ...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 7/9/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/9/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Second boat on the water at 0450. The "plan" was to troll a flat line until I was in 60'+ of water and take temperature readings. Before reaching that depth, I hooked and landed a little 10" and thoug...
By: Slacktime
Posted: 7/8/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from Harry Todd park off the dock and caught tons of rock bass they were everywhere !!! released them all !! Hooked a small mouth that was cruising the shallows but couldn't get him in. Maybe n...
By: achmed2213
Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the 4th of July about 1400 trying my luck on the lake. Wasn't thinking I was going to do that great due to all the Jet Skies and Inner tubers. Was there for 40 mins and limited out quick...
By: Slammin8er
Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
No Koks. The bite could be effected by the algal bloom and 4' of visibility. Probably caused by the high amount of fertilizer. But the weedless lawns are sure pretty all around the lake. . Don’t remem...
By: fishtremble
Posted: 7/4/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I tried some fishing at American Lake, on base, at Shoreline Park, for a couple of hours. It was sunny, with a little wind. The fishing calendar rated it a best day. I got there at about noon. The...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/3/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We arrived at American at 09:00 and fished until 11:50. The primary we trolled was in front of Bill's Boathouse where we picked up 9 out of 10 fish. The largest was a bow at 14". We only picked up 1 K...
By: StonedSpinner
Posted: 7/2/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 7:30 launched at the wdfw site. We were targeting smallmouth but didn't get any all day. I caught 5 small rock bass and a 9" rock bass thats pictured. My buddy scott caught 3 sm...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 6/27/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/27/2012
Hot Spots: 2
On the water at 0515 and located a very weak thermocline. Last week I ran a temperature survey at 20 foot intervals and most were in the low 60s down to 80'. Kept the downrigger in or just below the ...
By: Slammin8er
Posted: 6/27/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/27/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Yes I am a glutton for punishment.
Hit the water at first light. The bite started out slow and tapered off.
Between 5:30 and 8:00 hooked multiple 12” trout and one 17” Kokanee. The keeper fell fo...
By: fishchaser
Posted: 6/26/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Having read reports and watched the video on American Lake . I made the trek to the lake to give it a try I came prepared dodgers, hoochies, wedding rings, spoons, various baits , down rig...
By: Dodger11
Posted: 6/24/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Got on the water late, but not a bad day. Fished with my kids in the boat and my son had one on before I had my line in. I snagged a couple and the daughter pulled one in. She had several strikes on t...
By: gfakkema
Posted: 6/21/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Today was my second ever trip to american. Not as productive as the last time I was there, but we were still able to catch a few in the short time there. We were using fire tiger needlefish in little ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/18/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out around 215 started trolling slowly for about an hour with no bites, then picked up the speed while trolling and had 5 in the live well and 3 others hooked but got off by 415. I was using a fo...
By: dontknowanything
Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
me and my daughter got out didnt stay long because it started to rian the only reason i gave it a three is besuase we was getting nibbles and we got to watch a guy get trown frrom his baot he thought ...
By: StonedSpinner
Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got out to the lake at 6:15am was doing some shore fishing wasn't getting much action at all. Left the WDFW fishing area around 9:15 and went down the road to fish from the docks at Harry Todd park. I...
By: downtown98033
Posted: 6/15/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Boated a few nice smallies in 20' of water, learned alot from the best angler I know - JW. Thanks Jon!
By: downtown98033
Posted: 6/15/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Boated several smallies in about 20' of water.
By: Slammin8er
Posted: 6/14/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/14/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Fished from about 6:30 to 10:00. Lost count of the trout at 35, had about as many take down’s that didn’t stick. Took home one fat 16 inch kok. All caught on the old standard flat line 0/0 dodger w/1...
By: skyler71222
Posted: 6/14/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Yesterday about 6:30 pm i went out to american lake to do some fly fishing on my float tube. I was on the military side of the lake. When i put in there was not much activity above the water. When i g...
By: Mike@Bills
Posted: 6/13/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/13/2012
Hot Spots: 2
I did something today I have not done in a long time, I fished off the dock instead of taking the boat out. I have noticed that the trout have been hitting anything green so since I was actually targ...
By: gfakkema
Posted: 6/13/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2012
Hot Spots: 3
This was my first trip to American and what a day it was. I had a little trouble finding the public launch, but after driving around the sharp turn before the gravel road, I saw a very welcome sign. L...
By: Mike@Bills
Posted: 6/13/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
What a crazy day! Left the dock at 6:30 came back by 10:00. I had 4 takedowns on the downrigger and probably about 16 on the flatline. One on the downrigger was big! I got it out of the pole holde...