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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
OK, OK, I acknowledge that fact that do not know how to fish this lake. Everybody gets 4 and 5 star days, but I suck, totally. I have came to the conclusion that I am adequate, for a noob, fishing sh...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 5/17/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished American Lake on Thursday. Had a great time catching 3 big smallmouth, and hooking up with multiple fish schooling in the morning. Hal and I had a 5.25 Lb. Smallmouth, a 4.75 Smallmouth, and a ...
By: Lock3056
Posted: 5/17/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2010
Hot Spots: 1
Forgot to turn my fish finder off last night when I put my boat away, so I decided to go to the lake turn it off and go home, when I got there the lake was so nice I decided to go out and throw a plu...
By: Johnthefisherman
Posted: 5/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took the wife and daughter to the lake around 3, started catching as soon as we got to our spot. We were looking for smallmouth, daughter struck first, about 2.5 lbs(her new personnel best), then I go...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 5/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I went to American Lake this morning. Got there at 7am and left at 230pm. The parking lot was halfway full already but that's no big deal that's American Lake for you. We started in our usu...
By: johnnymatts
Posted: 5/14/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water around 5pm. Lots of boats as expected. Hug the southern shore anywhere from 50' to 100' and had a few small ones on. The bite really picked up from 7:30 on. Unfortunatley I ended up ...
By: johnnymatts
Posted: 5/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Launched around 5pm. Headed to the West side of lake around the VA hospital. Had 1 on right as I got to that side of the lake but lost it at the boat (just a lttle guy anyway). Didnt get any action...
By: littledeschutes
Posted: 5/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I was going to head to Mineral Lake, but got up late, so I decided to spend a few hours at American.
I launched at about 10am and headed over to the VA side of the lake. I decided to try something...
By: littledeschutes
Posted: 5/11/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at about 8:30am and went over to the VA Hospital. Trolled a chartruese wedding ring with a copper hammered blade I tied up and picked up 10 fish there, mostly about 10 inches with one 14 inc...
By: LMBDave
Posted: 5/10/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Heard the perch were starting to bite so me and the guys went down to amercican lake to check it out. and what do u know, first cast FISH ON! pulled in my first perch of the season woohoo! And so far ...
By: johnnymatts
Posted: 5/6/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out about 5pm. The weather was beautiful out. Launched from the southeast side of the lake just south of Silcox Island. I trolled the southern end of the lake till about 8pm. Had a couple nib...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit American this afternoon and slammed the trout. Put in on at Russell Landing and fished between the Marina and Island to the north. Trolling about 30 meters off the shore with a wedding ring and wo...
By: JM73
Posted: 5/2/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit American with a friend on Saturday and had a pretty good day. We had 27 to hand with quite a few more shaking the hook. Most were planters with the occasional 12"-14" fish. Best results were up...
By: sandman2009
Posted: 5/1/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing for about three hours tonight. Caught two trout and some perch but through them back bobber and worm.
By: adolfo
Posted: 4/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American lake around 5. Fished from the dock took son with me, fishing in the rain is not bad as long as the fish are hitting, Great fun let 6 fish go kept 2
By: robert4681
Posted: 4/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a good day. Two of us launched my 16' Smokercraft Ospry at about 1:00PM which is a little late in the day to start fishing but we needed it. The first hour we had 2 little 9 inchers on but they ma...
By: joemfreed
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Rain later on was worth it.....caught fish trolling islands and back cove area.....my girl n son had a blast and even had a fish to take home....all together bout five or six fish.........the one in t...
By: joemfreed
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a rainbow, about 14 inches, in the first five minutes, then nothin else.
By: kokanee_slayer
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Opening Weekend was a success. Limited out both Saturday and Sunday on Kok's. Took only about an 1 1/2 to 2 hrs each day to catch my 5. Fish were a little on the small size; about 10 to 12 inches but ...
By: G-Man
Posted: 4/25/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Not much to say other than it was a tough day fishing. Surface temps were around 57 to 58 degrees and the wind was brisk and coming out of the East. Worked the West side of the lake at depths from t...
By: snake7676
Posted: 4/25/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took the kids back to AMERICAN lake after yesterdays rain/wind/sun......... storm and the weather was alot nicer! once again launched at the north park boat launch and headed to the south end between ...
By: nickbell
Posted: 4/25/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Great day. The weather was much better. I used a slip bobber, and about 7 feet down i had a worm with some corn gravy on it. These two trout were the only fish i caught today, but they were fun. T...
By: littledeschutes
Posted: 4/25/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started off @7am trolling North of Silox Island. This was the first trip with my girlflends 16yr old son. I got him set-up and put his line in the water. 10min later Fish on!!! Man he had a huge s...
By: snake7676
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to AMERICAN lake with the kids today when we arrived to the lake at north park boat launch it was chopy water like crazzy ! At any rate headed to far south end lake where it was not as bad a...
By: nickbell
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fun day. I only caught a small little trout which i let go, but everybody on the dock caught at least 2 keepers each. I saw some nice fish today. What made me really mad was when i cast out my bobbe...