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By: Boxermom
Posted: 10/18/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
So, evidently I'm not as educated as much as others in identifying types of fish. This is what we caught this weekend off the dock on the JBLM side of American Lake. Someone on the dock with us told u...
By: Boxermom
Posted: 10/17/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the weekend in a cabin on the JBLM end of American Lake. Got up early Saturday morning and went down to the fishing dock near the MWR Adventure Center on base. One of my weekend fishing companio...
By: Chasingos
Posted: 10/16/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit American today at noon hoping to repeat what I did lastweek catching a bucket full. Was not to be but caught about 15 or so. The water had a bit of a chop and it was hard to stay on them due to wi...
By: nickbell
Posted: 10/16/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Better day today. Fished at the boathouse and caught 20+ decent perch on, believe it or not, trout powerbait. Stayed for about 6 hours. The bite stoped around 4:30.
By: snake7676
Posted: 10/10/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I slept in Saturday and ran errands (Costco free samples = Dukes chowder had a buffet!) with the family, so no fishing. Slept in again this morning, woke up, made breakfast for the kids and wife, then...
By: nickbell
Posted: 10/9/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to american lake in hopes of catching something decent. I fished with a small gold kastmaster. Got many hookups, though I only landed one which was, as always, a dink. I don't know what it is ...
By: snake7676
Posted: 9/27/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Same gear north end of island 35' down 1.0 - 1.5 mph koks are still chrome and vary active!
By: kokanee_slayer
Posted: 9/26/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Daybreak and caught my limit by 8:00. Hooked a lot of smaller fish and released four. Kept two smaller bleeders which were next years fish, The three larger ones were in the 12 to 13 inch ...
By: fin chaser
Posted: 9/23/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to American about 7 am. Trolled 30'-40'ft down on the South side of the island. Trolled pink wedding rings and pink hootchies behind sling blades. Three of us caught our limit of kokes by 9:...
By: JM73
Posted: 9/20/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Tried to fish American Monday AM but it was pretty tough with the weather as bad as it was. We managed to get five fish to the boat. Four Kokanee and one nice rainbow. Marked a lot of fish around t...
By: snake7676
Posted: 9/19/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
To make a long story short, my 2 boys and I went out to American Lake this morning. I was wondering what was in store for us, due to the fact that my kicker motor was down! Therefore, I brought 2 empt...
By: Lock3056
Posted: 9/17/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the whole week at the lake for my vacation. I hadn't been out in about a month, the lake changed quite a bit in a few weeks, the weeds are down and the water got cold. I was hoping to nail the p...
By: booboo98498
Posted: 9/14/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, first time ever got my limit! My net was at home staying dry so all fish had to be lifted into the boat. First time ever using corn and found that it works great. I had nightcrawlers on one ho...
By: Toni
Posted: 9/11/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/11/2010
Hot Spots: 1
I got to the deep area straight out from the new launch @ 9am. Lost a fish at the boat. Then started trolling around north of the island. I was double stacked on the down rigger at 35 and 21 in 90-100...
By: Arimaguy
Posted: 9/8/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to hit the lake at the last minute this morning, stopped at the little market just before the city park to grab some worms. Got to the launch at 8:15am it was raining and the water was around ...
By: Ocktane
Posted: 9/5/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day fishing just south of the boat launch. Spotted a few surfacing so I threw my trusty white buzzbait and nailed a nice 3 lb 14 oz largemouth, good start to the day! No more topwater ac...
By: JM73
Posted: 9/5/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit American on Satuday after the moring rain let up. Got on the water around 10:30am and began trolling from the launch toward the VA. 15min into the morning, I landed a nice 12" Kokanee-good start...
By: David.Pedroza
Posted: 9/1/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Was on the water and fishing by 7am with 1/2oz bannana wt trolling green wedding band with a pinch of worm. Quiet morning until about 830 when the first strike came in followed by two more within the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/27/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
went out to American after taking welding finals with my buddy from class,trolled around the Hospital towards the swimming area and boat launch.My buddy caught a perch trolling a frog colored flatfis...
By: kokanee_slayer
Posted: 8/23/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Every once in a while you have one of those days when things just don't go right. Well Sunday was one of those days. I've done extremely well at American this year due in large part to the pointers I'...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 8/23/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to little American this morning for perch. fished in 25 to 27 ft of water, we had three rods with three hooks, (white jig, and blue jig both with bait and a #8 hook with bait). Perch meat out did...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 8/20/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out again this morning to Little American. Fished form 8 to 930 in the same spot as we did on Wen. (just off from the camp docks) but only put one in the boat with worm and jig. We move around tr...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 8/20/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished little American in 27 ft of water w/crappie jig and piece of worm. White jig produced the most fish. fished from 9 to 12 noon. Went home with 15, came out with 1-1/2 lb of boneless fillets. ...
By: cfawver22
Posted: 8/16/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Camped out on fort lewis, trolled for so kokanee, hit a few small ones, lots of rock bass, and perch left and right, just dropped a worm straight to the bottom and reeled up about 6 inches, a fish eve...
By: cielowalker38
Posted: 8/15/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A sincere thanks to those of you who haved helped with lake reports. Today I returned to the water after having mounted a downrigger on the pontoon. The fish were at 30 feet, and the morning was won...