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By: swimminjake
Posted: 5/27/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American and fished from my kayak using bobber and power bait at 15 feet. No luck but saw some people catch bass. I have no clue how to fish for bass or kokanee. Any help?
By: LOCOintheBrain
Posted: 5/27/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I got a late start fishing American lake today.We were fishing by about 10. We started trolling immediately out of the launch and were headed straight for the north side of the island to...
By: spokey9
Posted: 5/26/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to brave the weather to head back down to the boathouse. Got there about 9am and left around 5pm. The bite was slow again today. Picked up 12 perch and 4 rainbows all on a slip bobber set to...
By: elrika
Posted: 5/26/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at the boat ramp about 1015 to find only two trailers in the lot. What’s up, where is everybody? I found the fishing to be slow combined with a stiff SW wind. I guess the crowd figured it ou...
By: f1sh1nf00l
Posted: 5/25/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water about 9:30 am, overcast, suprisingly calm. Started working docks and saw beds right from the get go. With no wind, and good water clarity, the fish were pretty spooky. It appears that mo...
By: fretzca
Posted: 5/24/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had all of my fishing rods taken from the berkley boat launch this Saturday May 21. Was there to fish a tournament for Washington State Pond Jumperz. Helped someone with their boat and when i looked b...
By: Ocktane
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
WOW! Great day! Sorry I'm posting this report late. Hit the water about 7 am and headed to the northwest end. Fished the docks along the point and onward north. Water temp around 55, overcast in ...
By: spokey9
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My girlfriend had the day off so we went back down to the boathouse (just to see if we couldn't get lucky with a cabela's fish, lol). Got there around 9am and fished til around 6pm. It was a really ...
By: spokey9
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I heard the perch where biting pretty good so i went down to boathouse to give a go. I was fishing 2 rods (i bought the endorsment). one was a slip bobber set to 8 feet to target rainbows. It was a...
By: TBone
Posted: 5/21/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well we hit the lake at daybreak with a light shower of rain, as we motored out there were fish jumping everywhere so we had big expectations..I tied up a homemade spinner the night before to try on t...
By: elrika
Posted: 5/20/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Another beautiful day on American Lake! The water was glassy smooth most of the morning with a bright clear sky. I fished from 0930 to 1230 between the south side of Silcox Island and the VA hospital ...
By: fretzca
Posted: 5/19/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished hard from 7am to about 3pm. Only was about to pull in one SMB that was about 3 pounds. It was caught of a rocky bottom about 6 ft down using a watermelon senko dropshotting. Water temp was read...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/19/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
What can I say but it was one of those days. Fishing wasn’t red hot like it has been. The sun was shining but the wind was blowing. I had trouble steering. Is there any way we can see ahead as to how ...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/18/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
American Lake is my go-to smallmouth lake. This trip never touched a smallmouth. Fished, among other baits, Sencos shallow and dropshop in depths from 8 ft to 14 ft. These have always been my best bai...
By: bryanpeck
Posted: 5/16/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/16/2011
Hot Spots: 2
Fished for Kokes from about 9:00 - 12:30. Second trip to American Lake looking for kokanee and on trip #1 all I got was trouties. This time I was armed with an arsenal of new gear and new informatio...
By: ScreamingEagle
Posted: 5/16/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2011
Hot Spots: 2
Started at 6:30 and worked my way around the island again. Very slow morning, had to fish till 11:00 to catch my limit. Used uv pink mini dogger with uv pink mini squids on pink hooks tipped with sh...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 5/14/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American Lake this morning. Took my daughter with me. It was the second trip out there for my son and I. There were quite a few people on the water by the time we got there, which was about at...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/12/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Today the weather was nice. A little on the windy side and after the first shower, when I started fishing, it was partly sunny and the wind would die down and then come back. Got the little outboard t...
By: ScreamingEagle
Posted: 5/12/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2011
Hot Spots: 2
Headed out this morning at 6 a.m. with Mike (the Kokanee Deer Hunter). Had and excellent time making a loop around the island and finished early enough to make it to work on time. Caught 7 Kokanee a...
By: rockjiggr
Posted: 5/11/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up American in the late afternoon/early evening since the clouds decided to clear away for a bit. Found the perch scattered in the 30-45ft range along the north shore. Got 8 pretty decent ones wit...
By: elrika
Posted: 5/10/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I started fishing for Kokanee at 0930 and caught a limit by 1030. The fish were all in the 12 to 13 inch range. I tried out two hand made spinners (green & black beads with a nickel blade, and amber ...
By: robert4681
Posted: 5/8/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water about 9:00am. The surface water temp was 51 degrees. Fished till 1:30pm
trolling ford fenders and strung on night crawlers with one ounce of weight. This usually gets us the limit in...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/8/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This is a 2 day report.
5-7 I went fishing with Cami and Glen in their boat.
We started fishing around 8:30 in the morning and Glen had his first fish on within 5 minutes and it was hot for a short ...
By: f1sh1nf00l
Posted: 5/8/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Was supposed to fish Spanaway with Arniejl, but I screwed those plans up. So he came over to American and met me, and we went out to see what the smallies were doin. Started the day throwin 1/2 oz ble...
By: spokey9
Posted: 5/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A couple buddies & i went down to the boathouse today (one of my buddies got a new rod for his birthday and needed to get it wet). I was actually expected some real slow fishing because the weather w...