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By: SPARKY101
Posted: 8/23/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Bassmasterderek and I hit the lake early,fished till 3pm "boaters getting crazy today"nice when there not out first thing.Fished d-shot/topwater in the morning and BMD pulled in a nice one on his 3rd ...
By: Maury
Posted: 8/16/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
was on the water from 6 - 9, boated 3 nice 13 - 14" Kokanee and lost 1 at the net same size. trolling off the rigger at 32'. had a blast. Started slow, 1 itty bitty perch right away but nothing else t...
By: SPARKY101
Posted: 8/10/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake with Bassmasterderek O'dark 30,fished till 1130,all fish caught on dropshot 20-25ft on 4"lizard/minnows/straight tail just fished transition areas as the time had to be used wisely and pr...
By: samm3
Posted: 7/12/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day at 5 am looking for fish with a spinner, caught 3 smallish red-eyes. Changed to night crawlers under a bobber, caught some more red eyes and one small perch. Decided to take the bobb...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/7/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at American Lake Monday 7-7-08 at 6:00AM. Tried small dodger and small red hoochie with downriggers at 65 feet at north end by old boat launch looking for Kokanee. Water temp. was 70 degrees....
By: gowazzu02
Posted: 7/2/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to American Lake the other weekend. Went with a buddy of mine and his 10 year old daughter. We went out from Bills boat shop at around 6am.
We got set up with a wedding ring with some ...
By: FISHINROB
Posted: 6/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
i forgot i took a pic of the cutthroat here it is .forgot in my recent report.caught on bass jig.
By: FISHINROB
Posted: 6/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
well went to American to try out my new boat and downrigger .got there at 5am very nice morning ,got launched trolled the usually spots but no luck on kokes.i started throwing bass jigs and caught a c...
By: samm3
Posted: 6/24/2008
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Started out the day trolling for trout with wedding and a worm, and got nada, so decided to hit a few spots along the shore and see what i could come up with, lots of rock bass like usual. Moved out ...
By: devdavis1221
Posted: 6/23/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I had nothing to do so I decided to go to the lake. I didn't catch anything for a while until I went to the dock on the north fort lewis shoreline side. It was a pretty nice fish about 13-15 inches.
By: joshswrench
Posted: 6/23/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
After a good day at Tanwax, hit American with a friend of mine and started trying to find some perch. Water was choppy and the wind was out, so since we didn't have an anchor, we just drifted. We had ...
By: samm3
Posted: 6/19/2008
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/19/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Went out this morning around 7, the lake was calm and it was overcast, saw a bunch of fish feeding at the top of the water. Caught a few rock bass/perch on the little American side with a green weddi...
By: samm3
Posted: 6/14/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 5 pm. Slowly trolled a wedding ring with a nightcrawler around the "little american" side and got 10" bow. Got one more bite the rest of the day. It was a really busy day on ...
By: FISHINROB
Posted: 6/14/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
well mike and i made it out to American and as we arrived at 5:00 am there were lots of boats there to welcome us .we waited our turn and had small talk about the fishing.we get in the water and und...
By: Rick D.
Posted: 6/11/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son and his friend to American Lake on Saturday. We usually target Bass. But, I figured with all of these cold fronts, the kids would get a lot more action targeting Rock Bass and Perch. My...
Posted: 6/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out early from Bills Boat House trolled first straight out in front of Bills Boat House had a couple of hits, no hook ups, I using my own version of wedding ring, took off their hook put on orang...
By: FISHINROB
Posted: 6/6/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2008
Hot Spots: 1
my fishing partner mike (aka "crablegs")and i hit American at 630am ,there were 5 boat trailers in the lot no one launching but us.we launched in mikes 18 foot Olympic and headed to the main islan...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/4/2008
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day fishing for Bluegill at the lake. Probably caught about 20 but only kept 5 for the dinner table. Very fun and will definitely do it again. By the way, they are in the shallows now a...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
watertemp-63 weather was cloudy hit the lake at 6:00am trolled with a wedding ring but no bites. put on some pop-gear and wedding ring and trolled finally hooked one going back to the launch at almos...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Went fishing on American lake starting again at 7am and found some more decent sized rockbass in the shallows. Found that casting the wedding ring to cover and letting it sink to bottom and slowly re...
By: kokaneeking08
Posted: 6/1/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took out my grandfather and a fishing buddy of mine on Friday. We got there at 6:30 and the fishing was on fire, just as it had been for the past 2 weeks. We landed out first koke in about 3 minutes...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
hit the lake at 6:00am. didn't get anything for about 20min then i found some schools hanging out and just as I saw some good sized fished fly by my finder wam got one, kokanee too. I'm new to lake ...
By: ReelFisher
Posted: 5/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 630 or so and saw maybe 6 other boaters on the lake but there was also a lot of people along the shore. I went trolling down and around the little American lake side with little...
By: samm3
Posted: 5/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Started trolling little American lake again. Caught a small trout and a rock bass before my dad caught this nice 17" smallmouth. Bringing it in noticed a second one the same size swimming with it (w...
By: kokaneeking08
Posted: 5/28/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to American Lake this morning at 6:30 and there were about a dozen boats or so on the water. As usual, by the time I got to the north end of the lake, there was nobody catching any fish. There s...