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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2005
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/4/2005
Hot Spots: 0
I live on American and have spent a little time just about everyday from May 29th through June 4th. I hit my usual guaranteed spots for rainbows. Not even a nibble. I went through my tackle box u...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/29/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/28/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Showed up in the middle of the day when the fishing is usually the worst used a worm and a putzkeys on a bobber and knocked them dead.problem is they were all to small to keep. But the constant action...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/28/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/27/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Got on lake around 7:30 with friend. Trolled from Ft. Lewis dock to bills boat house marked a few fish on finder early then they all disappeared caught two one each back up north and a bunch of small...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/26/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at about six oclock...everyone seems to have gone tonight!! caught trout and rock bass right off the bat...with 3 guys in the boat, we all caught trout and rock bass and a couple perch.....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/24/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/23/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Got out tonight for a couple hours of fishing after work. Lake only 20 minutes from home. Found the little fish willing to take my bait a small black streamer with a bead head that a friend who could...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/23/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2005
Hot Spots: 0
i was fishing with my dad on are favorite spot and it was are second time out, we used a a slider weight with a swievel and a 4-6 foot lead with power bait perferably rainbow my dad caught a 11 inch ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/16/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Correction: the small bass that I caught were rock bass and the two pounders were largemouths.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/14/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Rented a boat from Bill's boat house for a couple hours of fishing on American Lake. As we were loading up the dock was of people fishing in between the boat slips and off the dock. Once out on the l...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/13/2005
Hot Spots: 0
On my kayak, I have hooked a lot of 4 to 6 inch Bass (a lot of fun if you just want quantity and not quality), but on Friday the 13th I was able to catch and release a couple of two pounders (good qua...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/12/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing at Bill's boat house dock was a bit slow from noon to 3.
Worm /bobber near top seemed best. Saw couple small ones caught. Few really decent and one fellow lost a monsterous one because his ne...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/12/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2005
Hot Spots: 0
we caught and released 27 fish all rainbow 4 were over 14 in. we fished the north end of the lake. it was a great day - pull out 40 pulls and be ready for the strike they hit it hard we lost two over...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/10/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/7/2005
Hot Spots: 0
This sounds like a commercial but thought I'd better start indicating how fishing is in-and-around Bill's Boathouse where my wife and I have taken over for my father who passed away last November. We...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/8/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Harry Todd park to fish the pier approx. 6 pm. met up with an old man who gave us the scoop on fish depth, about 4-5 feet, put our bobbers on and went at it. First warning most of the fish...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/6/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Took the time to do some evening fishing here. The lake has been planted from net pens provided and raised by Fort Lewis. Half or more of this lakeshore is military. We should thank those who serve ou...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with a friend at 7:00 AM, trolled for about 2.5 hours with triple teasers, caught 5 rainbow between us, 8-11 inches. Lost several others near the boat, and had lots of hits.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Was on the lake to demo a kicker for sale, decided to troll around for a little while. Hooked 7 fish in one hour. 4 of them were the fat, fin clipped rainbows with pink meat. And yes, he bought the mo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/24/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/24/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty nice day at American lake. Trolling a flasher rig with wedding band and worm, I landed 2 small trout (returned), a 12" Rainbow, and best of all-- a 17" Rainbow! I wish I could give you the weig...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/20/2005
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/20/2005
Hot Spots: 0
4-20 Trolled outside the cove where the old marina was and picked up two fat 15 and 16 inch rainbows. The Army will soon be stocking from their pens at the newer marina, but GI fishermen said those f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/19/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Talked to the boat house manager and he said that the lake will be stocked with 25000 trout on 23 Apr 05. Spoke with two gentlemen coming off the lake that had 4 nice keaper size rainbows. I asked t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/10/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/10/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fly Fished the North Ft Lewis side of American Lake from a float tube, started at 0800 near the camp grounds and worked my way around to Ft Lewis Recreation dock with a Prince Nymph on slow sink line ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/9/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I didn't catch a thing again here. I will attest now that the fish are beginning to bite ever so slightly. I saw a guy pull in a 15 lb. rainbow trout and then his daughter caught a 12 in kokane...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/3/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Did some running around the lake and found most of the fish congregating in deeper holes. Nothing biting though. This was our third trip to American Lake where we have caught a few smaller fish in the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/19/2005
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Rating: 2
Fished: 3/19/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake about 9am went straight to the cove at the VA hospital , fish finder showed a few fish around the 7 to 15 foot range so I through a night crawler out under a bobber and drifted while ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/13/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/13/2005
Hot Spots: 0
went to American lake at 5 30 am found out they don't open the gate to the boat launch till 7 . finally got in the water there were 10 boats behind us nobody caught anything nothing jumping I think th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/12/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/12/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American lake to do some Sunday morning fishing there was a line up at the boat launch in the morning apparently the key keeper to the gate was late on opening it . finally got on the lake ab...