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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/12/2000
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/12/2000
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Read the fishing report written on May 11, 2000 and figured this might be a good lake to try. Got up at dark o'clock Friday morning and took off for American Lake. Arrived at the public fishing bea...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/12/2000
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/12/2000
Hot Spots: 0
After reading the latest reports on American Lake, my son and I got up at dark o'clock and left for the lake. We got there and all setup by first light expecting to catch our limits and be home by 0...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/10/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2000
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Hi all. I went out this morning about 8 am, a couple of the guys on
the bank said nothing was biting, so I put some chum out where I fish most of the time, put on some Zekes Sierra Gold, with a whit...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/7/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/7/2000
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Went to the shore by the boat launch at Fort Lewis at about 9:30.
Used green power eggs gooey with Berkeley trout attractant on size 10 hooks attached to 3 foot 4lb leader (my dad used 6lb)of the bo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/2/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2000
Hot Spots: 0
I went to American Lake about 8 am and put my boat in at the launch. I went straight out and started trolling a green F4 flatfish, then switched to a rooster-tail. Trolled for about an hour with no lu...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/30/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2000
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I GOT OUT TO THE LAKE AT ABOUT 9:30AM. I STARTED OFF FISHING THE DOCK
AT SHORELINE PARK. I CAUGHT THREE NICE 11 INCHERS ON A BLACK ROOSTER TAIL. I DECIDED TO TRY MY LUCK OUT AT THE OLD BOAT LAUNCH.I ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/28/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2000
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I fished American a couple of weedends ago and used a frog Flatfish of the surface and caught two chunky 12" bows in a couple of hours. This lake has good surface action, no reason to go deep.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/22/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/22/2000
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Rough water, cold day, and hot fishing. Went to the lake after breakfast and launched the boat about 9 AM. Water temp was 57 deg F. We trolled Super Dupers [2 inch size] silver & red and solid red bot...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/22/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/22/2000
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I set out about 0700 wanting to try out my new rod and reel I just bought the other day. Skies were partly cloudy to mostly sunny with a stiff wind blowing from the South. I trolled the NW corner of t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/19/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2000
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Hi the fishing is good at little American from shore, I fish it
tues, wed, thurs. in the morning. most of the fish are 12 to 15 in or
bigger, the bigger ones go rite thru the 4 lb leader we use out...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/10/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/10/2000
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Well, last weeks oil cap debacle turned into this weeks pretty decent fittin trip. Talked to some dudes at the ramp who had engine trouble. Been there done that. Trolled on top at first, with a weddi...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/6/2000
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/6/2000
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Well the water temp was 49 and it was windy. I slow trolled into the wind, yielded one nice 14 in kokanee.This was with ford fender/ wedding ring spinner and power bait /worm. Saw several fish caught ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/3/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/3/2000
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Trolling lil american ford fender , wedding band spinner bright red power bait several good hits and misses, then solid hookup 14 in kokanee ....water temperature 53deg.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/2/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2000
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Was there for about 2 hours and only got few bites then came a 2 pounder and what a fight it was, only 2 fish and we left about 1:00pm,lots of fish on the finder.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/28/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/28/2000
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On the Fort Lewis side of the lake, at the park. Nothing in the early hours, but around 4:20pm they start biting. landed a nice 14 incher, was 3 3/4 in. wide. Too bad I had to pick up husband from wor...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/27/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 3/27/2000
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We went out around 12:00pm and fished the south end of the lake just before the inlet. We were about 200m away from shore, and we were using green BWO (Callibatis) flies in the emerger form, and just...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/21/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 3/21/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Just thought I'd drop you a note on American Lake. Besides
largemouth, American also had, up to last year, a few smallmouth. But now there are a lot more. Last year, under the game departments recom...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/11/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/11/2000
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Well, at the dock by the camp ground I had been throwing a spinner for about an hour. So I thought to put on some power bait and cast about 50 yards away. Within 2 or 3 minutes I had a nice 2 pound t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/23/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 1/23/2000
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Fished off the Dock from "Bill's Boat House"for about two hours in the AM. Never got a bite. Fished various depths using worm, tipped with shrimp. Also used power bait.
A couple other people I talked...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/1/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 1/1/2000
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Y2K New Year's Day, I went fishing off the dock on the west side of
American Lake. It was mostly cloudy with sun breaks, 10mph wind roughing up the surface. Water was green with 10' visibility. Air t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/6/1999
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Rating: 4
Fished: 10/6/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Great pearch S. End 40' Used carolina rig.
Black Char. Jig on #2 "RED" worm hook. Tip w/worm.Tryed on the other ways "FEW" hooked fish.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/21/1999
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/1999
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Well we launched at 0530 and there was only one boat out before us and two behind us.
The weather was overcast with a slight breeze from the South, but it was really pleasant.
There were two of us i...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/25/1999
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/1999
Hot Spots: 0
If you like trout American lake is the place to be... If you can
find a place away from the jetskis you will find the fish. I started at
4:00 in the afternoon and by 5:30 was playing catch and rel...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/16/1999
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/1999
Hot Spots: 0
I started out at O'dark 30 (5:00am). I fished the north side of
the island at about 30 feet. I was using the standard wedding ring with maggots and worms. I hooked two Kokes by 6:15. The first abo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/1999
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/1999
Hot Spots: 0
We fished off the northwest corner of the island, in varying depths, and caught thirty fish in less than four hours, practicing catch and release, of course. We were trolling as slow as the kicker wou...