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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/11/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/11/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Prospects looking good for fishing season 2002! Bill's Boathouse on eastern side of American Lake is now raising 10,000 rainbows in net pens and will be released in April. Fort Lewis has 25,000 as wel...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/2/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/2/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day for a boat ride. Marked very few fish. Fished from top to bottom, all for not.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/6/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 10/6/2001
Hot Spots: 0
The lake is now so low the aqua lift won't work. 10 am
and not too much wind so the kayak will do for the two of us.
We anchor at 30' up in the north end and drop our lines. All
the water skier's...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/21/2001
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/21/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished American Lake from a dock after work. 5th cast and the drag starts singing on my ultralight. 4 jumps and a few minutes later I was able to lip the 17" Smallmouth and take the Roostertail out of...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/12/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2001
Hot Spots: 0
My father-in-law and I fished American last Thursday. I tried trolling a beaded hook with a worm, flatfish, and a triple teaser with no luck, except for a couple of perch. He used a ford fender with...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/11/2001
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing with my friend Josh in his boat at around 6:ooam in little American, nothing. But when we moved out into the bigger area I started getting bites left and right. I was using pop gear wi...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/7/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with my family on Saturday the 7th. About 1 in the afternoon got a nice strike which turn out to be an 8 lb 14 oz Rainbow 27 and 1 half inches long. The nice people at Bills boathouse weight it...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/26/2001
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Started trolling with pop gear and a worm in little American, nothing.But when I went into the bigger area around the floating logs I got two 11 inchers. nothing special but that is all I got for the ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/24/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/24/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 8am-1pm came up empty. Weather rainy water temp. 66 deg.
I saw two 3lbs bass semi curious. Broke off a 3lbs bass (darn log)
Trolled for trout for an hour or so no takers.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/23/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/23/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Well, don't know what has happened, but ever since Father's Day, this side
of the lake ~ from shore~ has died out. before that I was limiting almost
every day, now went back out to my usual spot by ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/10/2001
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/10/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at 5 am. the water was flat. no wind or rain. I was trolling for
kokanee between the islands when a series of waves came from nowhere. A max.
of ten waves that looked and felt like a large b...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/4/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2001
Hot Spots: 0
We got out on the water at about 9:30am it was a gloomy day with a couple of sun breaks. We rented a boat from Bill's and headed strait across the lake toward the V.A. hospital trolling with our t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/9/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water around 6am and trolled with wedding rings and kastmaster spoons. I was looking for the kokanee, but no luck. Caught a lot of 8-10 inch rainbows, mostly along the shorelines. In the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/5/2001
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Took jr. and myself out to Little American around 5:00 pm. Both of us limited in about 1 hour. Fishing from the shore, using Orange Power Egg and 18-24 in. leader. All were in the 10 in. range with...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/19/2001
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/19/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful afternoon. Thermometer in my pocket read almost 70 degrees. The surface temp was 52. My friend Damon picked me up at the dock, and off we went. I was trolling my favorite Super Duper, and fi...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/14/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/14/2001
Hot Spots: 0
My partner and I started fishing at 9:30 am and fished until 1:00. While I didn't actually check the water temperature, it was cold. Fishing for my boat, we trolled flies, rooster tails, and small s...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/10/2001
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/10/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Pouring down rain four O'clock in the afternoon. I was having a bad case of withdrawal, so out I go, ultra light spinning rod in hand, rainbow colored Super Duper tied on the line. First cast, 12" rai...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/29/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/29/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Lots of rain -- no fish--if any body can tell me where to try and find perch on this lake --PLEASE-- e-mail me at troller931@hotmail.com I have heard that the lake has perch in it but I can't find th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/27/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the lake for about 5 hours. No good, lots of fish on the finder but no takers---the lake is about 5'lower than this time last year--watch out--trolled wedding rings and worms
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/6/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 10/6/2000
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the lake at my usual time 2:30 p.m. I notice that there was a lot of algae on the water. I figured the fishing was going to be tough ,but thought I would give it a try. I got out my 7ft. Lurh...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/26/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Started out trolling on downriggers at 60,45, 35, and 50 feet, small
hand tied spinners. We ended up catching fish at all depths mentioned, but it wasn't red hot. So, after a couple hours we motored ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/26/2000
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/26/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Fished LiL' American this afternoon and not much on the trolling side so we tried a tad bit of still and we only had a few bites. It was in the afternoon 'round 2pm-5pm of course this was a new spot f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/17/2000
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/17/2000
Hot Spots: 0
We hit the lake late morning, looking for pan fish. I read the night before in Washington Hunting and Fishing News
that there was a weed bar running from the mainland to the Island just south of Bil...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2000
Hot Spots: 0
The key to bank fishing at American Lake is
use a 1/8 oz egg weight. With about a
6 foot leader on a swivel.
Make sure your hook is not
too large so that two power
eggs will float. Make sure you...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/14/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2000
Hot Spots: 0
As often as I have fished this lake I always look forward to getting out and trying my luck. I've been fishing this lake for the last 6 or 7 years and I am never disappointed and this day was no excep...