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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/27/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Showed up on the south side boat launch about 9:00 am. Rowed out to the drop off between the two small islands and limited out on rainbows in an hour and a half. Crawler with no weight seemed to...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/27/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Launched from the DFW ramp about 8:30, rowed out (no motor) about 250 feet to ~40' of water, and dropped anchor. We tossed a 1/2 worm with no weight (besides the swivel), and around 18" of leader. Had...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/23/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day for fishing. Its about 1:30 p.m. My friend Tod and I went out on his boat to the infamous CULVERT of American Lake. On the way out we stopped at BILLS BOAT HOUSE for some MAGGOTS, CHUM a...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/7/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/7/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Launched boat at 7:00 am this morning. The first half hour or so was calm with mostly cloudy skies but there were sun breaks. Billy Dance and I were both donning our sunglasses to start. However th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/6/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2002
Hot Spots: 0
From Bills Boat House,
Arrived at 8 A.M.
Fished from north dock where pontoon boats are stored
Rigged up a 1/2 inch bobber 2ft of leader underneath bobber
then 1/4oz. worm sinker, then 3ft leader ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/2/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Between 5 and 6 PM caught several little rock bass and one 18" smallmouth bass. What was interesting was that as I fought the one smallmouth, I saw 2 other bass about the same size swimming with the h...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/30/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/30/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to go fish of the NAC (north west adventure center) dock before going over to my girlfriend fished for about 30 mins and landed a 2 lb largemouth using a brown lizard with a #1 hook with no we...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/29/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/29/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Hey. Went and fished from about 5:00pm to around 8:oopm. I was fishing off the bank and from all the news of people catching fish I thought it would be a good day. But all I got were 2 bites and that ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/29/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Started out about 0800. Water surface temp was a solid 70 degrees. I motored over to the VA hospital and fished with pop gear, wedding ring, and a worm down about 20 feet in a about 50 feet of water...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/10/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/10/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished American Lake near the Sea Plane Base from 6 - 8 PM. Landed one fair sized trout, missed several other strikes, and then had a good tussle with a 19" Bronzback. 6 jumps, lots of back and forth,...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/6/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/6/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Bass fishing, Weather was cloudy/partly sunny. water surface temp. was 60-64 One hit one largemouth bass 1 pound. I seen one huge smallie spawning.
I seen some old beds but no fry. this is not the ki...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled the south end of the lake Sunday AM. Used just a pink wedding ring & rainbow power bait. Had my limit in about 2 hours. They averaged about 12 inches. Saw lots of people still fishing, & troll...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2002
Hot Spots: 0
My next door neighbor fished for about an hour near the boathouse.
Used a Rooster Tail. Got one bite. Caught a rainbow trout that
had to go a good 8-10 pounds. He called me at work & when I got home...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/24/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled a flasher with a red triple teaser and maggots right in front of the marina 20 feet down with 6 ounces of lead. Limited in about an hour.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished American lake on the Dock by the NAC, caught 3 bass in the shallows on power tube and power lizard. Saw a lot of fish movement but the bass were super spooky. I did however spot the biggest ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/18/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2002
Hot Spots: 0
RENTED A BOAT FROM BILLS BOAT HOUSE SAT.. WENT TO THE CULVERT ON THE SO. END OF THE LAKE. DID REAL GOOD USING MAGGOTS AND EGGS. ANCHOR AND CHUM ,USE LIGHT LINE, LIGHT WEIGHT SINKER, AND A #12 EGG HO...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/9/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2002
Hot Spots: 0
The freshly planted rainbows are hitting on top right now. It took me 45 minutes to get my old wooden boat to the launch because of all the interruptions from fish insisting on being impaled by the fl...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Today I loaded the boat and was on the water at about 8:30am. Within the first hour I had landed a 3lb 10oz rainbow while still fishing in the culvert area using worm egg combo. After another 30 minut...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Tied to the log booms by shoreline today and caught one 12 incher, put my red wedding ring back on to troll and put worm on it. I let it dangle in the water while I pulled up my anchor, all of a sudde...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I have caught my limit every day and have thrown many back. sizes kept range from 10" to 16" and the largest weighing 1lb 11oz. I have fished every day and June and always go away with my 5 fish. I fi...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/25/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake at 3:00pm the weather was sunny with a light breeze.
Trolled a Mepps spinner around the big island and caught two 12"
rainbows. Had Several other hits but didn't hook them. Only had ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/15/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/15/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Only one tug all morning and we missed it. We are new to the area so were probably doing it wrong, but the other boat had no hits today either. We were mainly looking for trout or panfish in the sou...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/8/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/8/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Tried American for the first time this year. No one was catching much but weather was fair. We caught 2 bow's that afternoon in Little American on yellow triple teaser. One was 2 1/2 pounds however, m...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/3/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with the family. Saw no fisherman, fish, or anything else at the lake. I guess it will get better in two weeks when it gets stocked. Pretty sad when you have to wait for a lake that big t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/2/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/2/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished on little American Lake today throwing spinners from the shoreline. Limited in less than two hours, 4 under 12" one at 26"! I think the lake was recently stocked. A lot of fish movement clos...