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By: booboo98498
Posted: 5/3/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, what a day. Got on the lake at about 7:30 or 8 AM. I had my limit by 9:30. 4 kokanee and 1 rainbow. I was using pink hoochies and green hoochies tipped with corn behind sling blade dodgers. ...
By: crinklefish
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day out on American Lake. Got to the lake around 10AM and fished until 3:30PM. There were tons of people out on the lake when we arrived. Trolled the North side of the big island and then ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 0630. Air temp was roughly 40 degrees, skies were partly cloudy, wind from the NW around 5 MPH. Water temps started around 48 degrees and peaked at 53 degrees after noon.
Wan...
By: Ocktane
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing around 1400. Got bit and had a trout follow the drop shot early on but then we spent a long 5 hours with nothing. Dropshot, football heads, shakey heads even crankbaits and nothin......
By: Toni
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I set the alarm early and when it went off I had a bad headache so I took medication and went back to bed. After a couple of hours I got up took one more pill to see if that would make the headache g...
By: Keith
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to hit American by myself because the kid is with his mom this weekend and the other fishing buddy works nights so he was sleeping. Caught a mix bag 11 fish total 2 10 inch perch 6 trout 12 to...
By: Ocktane
Posted: 4/30/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit American for the trial run of MaxumCory's boat now equipped with downriggers. Spent most of the afternoon-evening workin out the kinks of his boat and learning how to use the gear (those release ...
By: pkelleysr
Posted: 4/25/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing is therapy. I’ve heard other things but until Saturday, my first statement was only theory. My Lady has been having a bad time of it lately due to nearly 4 decades of past abuses and Friday wa...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/24/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the lake a half hour earlier (7:30am) and I had to stay an hour (11am) later in order to obtain my 5 fish limit. The weather was cloudy, sprinkling, and with a slight wind. What a difference...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/24/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was a real adventure. Tried different methods. Bait stealing was a pain. Biting was very light. Fish were in the top of the water column. The big ones were not hitting.
By: rockjiggr
Posted: 4/23/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Did the daybreak thing at American today and had a pretty good time on the water despite not catching any bass again. The bass skunk is strong on American for me this spring. Caught a limit of those f...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/23/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Got up at 5am but through multiple things happening didn't get on the water to 8am. Off water before 10am. LIMIT with Wannafish A Lures and Dee Diamond flasher or Bahama Mamma dodger.
One lure is new...
By: arniejl
Posted: 4/22/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started at daylight this morning just in case the wind decided to be a pill. Hit a few docks for 1/2 an hour or so then headed for the dock that I lost the big one at yesterday. First cast in the sam...
By: arniejl
Posted: 4/21/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Trusted the weather report of winds to 6-8mph. Put in on American around 10:30 or so. Wind was howling. Found some promising looking docks, second dock fished hooked up with a smallie. Fish came righ...
By: elrika
Posted: 4/21/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The wife said she wanted to serve kokanee for Easter dinner, and that is all it took to get me out on the water! I fished Tuesday and today, limiting both days. Tuesday I started about 10:00AM, fish...
By: Borderline_11
Posted: 4/20/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 3 Kokanee in the morning then it shut down till about 3pm and caught 2 more Kokanee and 1 rainbow. My fishing buddy caught 5 of them and I ended up with 1 and lost 2 others.
By: ScreamingEagle
Posted: 4/19/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Rented a boat on Sunday and rowed from the island to the north. Used a watermelon flasher with a pink mini squid and tipped pink hooks with white gulp maggots. I wanted to fish away from the boat ho...
By: spokey9
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got my spinners on saturday so i decided to go back down to bill's since i know the fish would've settled down and i'd actually have to do some fishing. I threw everything at'em and came up with 3 13 ...
By: spokey9
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the boathouse around 9am because dave (the owner) told me they were gonna let the fish out around 11am (6500 fish). so i tied up a perch 1/8 oz kastmaster and was playing around til the big ev...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/17/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2011
Hot Spots: 1
I had to work today so I asked Kokanee_Slayer if I could get a seat from him on his boat 'cause he is a break of day guy! He picked me up from the North Park at 7 and I had my first bite within 5 min...
By: crinklefish
Posted: 4/17/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on American Lake yesterday with a friend. Took my best Rod Stewart and rigged it up with my favortie Don Cheedlefish. My buddy's rod was Ted Dancin' all day because of take downs. Must have h...
By: medicburd
Posted: 4/17/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Decided it was time to get my newly remolded 12' aluminum boat out on the lake yesterday. Headed over to the Boathouse and caught a little piglet of a trout. Just over a pound but still was great to...
By: bigfish202
Posted: 4/16/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A friend of mine and I decided to take a late trip out to the lake to see if we could get some Kokanee. We ended up getting 5 fish. 4 good sized rainbows and a 12" Kokanee. Using just a weding ring...
By: elrika
Posted: 4/14/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I launched the boat at 10:00AM, with a brisk south wind and cloudy sky. The water and air temperature were about the same, 47 degrees or so. Trolled a pink wedding ring baited with Gulp maggots behin...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/9/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 2
The lake was 47 degrees and a little choppy at first. The wind I would say was breezy and at times windy making boat control hard. I was out with friends trying to show them how to get kokanee on Ame...