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By: Racer
Posted: 11/1/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I went to American today to see how the kokanee were doing. I haven't been there in awhile. I got on the water around 8:00 and started trolling on the south side of silcox. Nothing happened until I wa...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 10/25/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had to fish American Lake after reading all of Toni's reports. Left early to find the WDFW launch and got to the gate at 0638 - it was open! The forcast was sunny and no chance of rain. They didn't sa...
By: Toni
Posted: 10/24/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I started fishing close to 8am and finished after 9:30am. I didn’t get them fast and easy. I had a hard time finding them and used 4 different color lure and dodger schemes. I got 2 where we fished ...
By: robert4681
Posted: 10/19/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 7:30AM. Tried using down riggers with small dodger and wedding ring with corn or maggots. No luck. Trolled a ford fender and a strung on night crawler with 1 ounce of weight off the rear o...
By: Toni
Posted: 10/16/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/16/2011
Hot Spots: 1
I think we started fishing between 7:30 and 8am and had our limits by 9am. Kokanee_Slayer got the first fish again. I got the last. It was pretty fast until a little past 8 then it slowed down with ju...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/16/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I want to thank Toni for her pass information about American lake kokanee. Took a buddy from work today for kokanee. Tried what was suggested by various people but in this site but Toni knew her stuff...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 10/14/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American. Cold day on the water with a brisk wind. Water temp at 58. No smallies, but still catching big perch. I found big schools in 30 to 40 feet of water. Get on a school and you can catch...
By: Toni
Posted: 10/13/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/13/2011
Hot Spots: 1
I started fishing about 8:50 and by 9:26 I had caught 4 fish, 4 fish in 20 minutes. 2 were spawners so I let them go. I thought it was going to be great but that did not pan out. I went straight out ...
By: mtom938
Posted: 10/10/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/10/2011
Hot Spots: 3
Went back out to American this morning for my final outing before work commitments take over once again. This time JBLM opened the gate on time, allowing me to get on the water by 7:30. I was paddli...
By: motoxcross
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
So first I must say what a Great lake. Today was the first day I have ever fished American Lake. So we set out the usual Kokanee gear that we use at Lake Stevens up north. Wedding Ring Green and Oran...
By: mtom938
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got up before the crack of dawn to get on the lake at first light. Unfortunately JBLM Security had other plans....they didn't open the gates until damn near 8:30! Got out as quick as I could, tried ...
By: Toni
Posted: 10/8/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Kokanee_Slayer and I started fishing American Lake approximately 7am and we finished about 9am with our limits. From 7 to 8 it was a awesome catching on combo’s of yellow and orange with corn and gree...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 10/8/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Back to American. Caught 3 smallmouth. 2 in the pound range, and one chunky 2-11. All caught on a nosed hooked grub dragged in 23 to 30 feet of water. There was a guy fishing off his dock who watched ...
By: Toni
Posted: 10/6/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/6/2011
Hot Spots: 3
Well, I was only about 1 ½ hours late from my plans to American Lake this morning. It wasn’t my partner, grandson William’s, fault. He was up at 5:30am. I was just too tired. So we got on the lake be...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/6/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The weather report looked favorable this morning so I headed to American Lake to try for some Kokanee. I arrived at about 10:00 with an overcast sky, little or no wind, and the lake was dead calm. I...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 10/5/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American Lake. Fished from 7:30 till 2:00. Only caught two smallmouth. A 1 lber and a nice 3-2. Both caught in deep water, the first at 23 ft and the big one at 28 ft., both dragging a footbal...
By: Dodger11
Posted: 10/3/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took until about 9 but got my first one in on a Pink and Blue Double Whammy with a matching color Dodger. We were in the NW corner of the lake. Using shoepeg corn only as bait. Had myself and 3 kids i...
By: Toni
Posted: 10/3/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2011
Hot Spots: 2
I got the pleasure of fishing with Mark Kokanee_Slayer in his new 16 foot Hewscraft Sunday morning.
We started fishing about 7am. I got my first one shortly after that. The first hour we had several ...
By: mtom938
Posted: 10/3/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took another skunkin' today, which was just as I basically had my head up my okole this trip, having left both net and bottle of scented shoepeg corn at the house. Got on the water right at sunrise an...
By: nickbell
Posted: 10/2/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished at the boathouse again today. Caught a few nice perch, all released this time. I didn't intend on keeping anything today, but then a caught this beautiful Koke on a gold kastmaster that I jus...
By: mtom938
Posted: 9/25/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got a late start, didn't get on the water until 9:00am. Boats were already coming back in and reporting what bite there was had just upped and died. No limits for any of those I chatted with, but so...
By: nickbell
Posted: 9/10/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Did the same as last week, fishing between the slips at the boathouse with worms, but there was a lot more action today. I ended up keeping five perch and one rainbow. One of the perch was a little ...
By: nickbell
Posted: 9/4/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the boathouse at 9am. I fished in between the slips with nightcrawlers. Caught rock bass in the beginning, the perch began to show up around 10:15. They would come in waves in pretty good nu...
By: David.Pedroza
Posted: 8/29/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
On the water at 0600 trolling at 0.5 to 1.3 in 80' water with down rigger at 30' finishing out with four in the boat. Left by 0930 to beat all the incoming boats for a great hot clear and sunny day. ...
By: Toni
Posted: 8/24/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2011
Hot Spots: 1
I got to American Lake at a little after 5am and realized I can’t go fishing until it gets light. So just before 6am I launched. My brother and Pink Pole were in another boat. They got one fish. Abo...