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By: Toni
Posted: 9/4/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2018
Hot Spots: 1
My son Bo came down for a little bit of fishing. I took him to American Lake. This was the first time I think, I have been here this year, his, ever fishing it. It was sunny and about 50 out to begin ...
By: Krakenteeth
Posted: 8/27/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2018
Hot Spots: 1
We got to Bill's Boathouse around 9:30 and between the two of us caught 8 by 11:00 am. I caught my limit. Some of them were nice and fat! The longest was 13" the shortest was around 10". We were us...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 7/7/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
So for the past 3 weeks I have been busy with mostly work plus a home project that has put fishing on the back burner; but not today! Cleared my schedule as much as I could so got things ready last ...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 6/6/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Where did all the Kokanee go? Haven’t been able to find one since last fall. Tried all depths, usual gear, scented corn. I did catch a limit of stockers, but dang, never used to get them so deep. Wate...
By: flyfisherguy
Posted: 5/18/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Hit American Lake this morning, began fishing around 8 am. FIshed all over the lake in search of kokanee since they weren't to be found in my usual fishing area on the west side of the island. Threw a...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 5/9/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2018
Hot Spots: 0
So I haven't really fished American lake much the past few years but with the derby this Saturday thought I would give it a try now that I had the Tin Cup back and running with a new power head instal...
By: Bilgewater
Posted: 2/10/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/9/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Getting no bites in American seems to be the norm for me. I located two small schools but nobody there wanted to play.
Last year I realized that my fish finder would showed large schools of fish a...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 1/16/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Melissa, the dogs and I hit American Lake on Sunday. Wanted to try out some new Kokanee rods and reels picked up for Christmas. We set the downriggers up with Kokanee gear and varied depths. We als...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 11/27/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We hit the water in our yaks at about 8am. Slow getting started as we are not used to the kayak prep yet, so we were a bit late. Regardless, we trolled around the island to the vet hospital with only ...
By: Toni
Posted: 10/29/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/29/2017
Hot Spots: 1
I slept in and didn’t start fishing until almost 9am. It was about 50 degrees out and dripping wet. The fog was above the trees so visibility was ok. Water temp was 57.
I started fishing around Picn...
By: Toni
Posted: 10/16/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I met Glen and Cami as they were launching the boat. We started trolling on our way from the launch toward the farthest north end.
Glen uses the Wannafish A Lure Mini Squiddy Thang Pink with gold b...
By: majorgbailey
Posted: 10/10/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/10/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at noon with light rain coming down with a strong wind. Normally use my trolling motor but had to use the big engine to maintain track. Initially set-up for trout but after an hour of nothi...
By: Ben Eggertsen
Posted: 9/9/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/8/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I like to read reports on a lake before I fish it. Brianna Bruce posted some good suggestions. While my pink hoochies did not do much, the pink splatter dodger (Shasta) and the clown dodger (Macks) ...
By: 502300
Posted: 9/8/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late report I was really busy. Went to American in search for some SMB. Started with a wacky rig tried a crank bait. Lots of weeds. Fished deeper docks. Caught about 3 SMB and about 4 ro...
By: ArrowNaughtic
Posted: 8/22/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Launched at 8 a.m and went straight over in front of VA Hospital. Put the downrigger down at 40 ft and trolled at one mile per hour. Did not hook a Kokanee that I am aware of but limited out on trout ...
By: Toni
Posted: 8/6/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I went to the lake to learn my new electric motor. Got there about 7:30am. It was hazy overcast from the fires in Canada and it was going to be in the mid 80’s today. The water temperature was 75.7 de...
By: Toni
Posted: 7/29/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This was really a tryout of the new motors and maybe catch something. I had my grandson with me. Big motor started. Great. Turned the fish finder on. Nothing. Tried the downriggers. Nothing. Bilge pum...
By: 502300
Posted: 7/5/2017
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American on a short notice. and started with a wacky rig looking for bass. But just rock bass would grab the tail, so I switched to a white trout maggnet and caught about 10 rock bass then I c...
By: joeortega
Posted: 7/2/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Had a mixture of fish today
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 6/6/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I slept in today and then decided to go fishing. I arrived at American at 10:30. I hit the water and marked a lot of fish. However the bite seemed to be over. I trolled several different lures, nerka...
By: PouserKeith
Posted: 6/5/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/4/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Short version:. Caught only one 17" unclipped Kokanee at 1:30'ish on Sunday afternoon.
Arrived in the early afternoon (Sunday) to try to target Kokanee, having only fished here once before on Frid...
By: Toni
Posted: 6/4/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I went with Glen and Cami that morning. Fishing started about 6am. The water temperature was 65 almost 66 degrees. There was a steady breeze which the weather report said was 5mph. This made the cloud...
By: crawfishman
Posted: 5/31/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/27/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Took my girlfriend out for her first early morning fishing trip, and brought along a couple other fishing buddies that I haven't seen in ages. Got to Bill's Boathouse around 6:15, started fishing arou...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/30/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I hit the water late hoping to test out the new kicker on some jokes. What a ZOO! Launched and started to head out and quickly figured it was not the day to test the waters, so I headed to the south e...
By: Claybuster
Posted: 5/29/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
First time on American this year. Got 3 in the boat, released one of them. 18 feet on the downrigger seemed to be the spot over by the VA hospital. Used the 50/50 gold tooth with corn mixed with tu...