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By: Oldcoastie7
Posted: 5/6/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Went to Russell Landing to take my boat out. It was a bit rough and my first mate doesn't like rough water so we decided to fish from shore. There is a small fishing dock just south of Russell Landi...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Started later, 0830 lines in. No bites on the gold spoons so switched to the slingblade and hoochie with smile blade and a little corn. Hooked 5 or 6 trout and one small Kokanee. All fish caught abou...
By: Onmygame
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the launch with my two sons just a bit after 6:00 a.m. and was trolling twenty minute later west of Silcox along the VA hospital. All three of us have two rod endorsements, but I ran just o...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 5/1/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Had a good time trolling gold spoons around in the morning. First two fish were Kokanee , but they were small' maybe 10 in, so we let them go. The gold spoon thing worked until about nine'ish then the...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 4/29/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I finally got into a few kokanee on American. Caught 3 and long released 3. All were about 12 inches. All caught between 9 and 17 feet down the wire. Used pink wedding rings tipped with corn or be...
By: Rip Lipper
Posted: 4/29/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2016
Hot Spots: 2
The 2 perch are fat with eggs. They are the first I caught this year. I am going to lay off the perch for a few weeks till they are done spawning.
By: LJTPerry
Posted: 4/27/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2016
Hot Spots: 1
My wife and I hit the dock in shoreline park. There was a couple on the other side knocking them dead. They caught one after another, landing 9 in about an hour. We didn't find out what bait they were...
By: Quotient
Posted: 4/26/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Bill's dock 4 hours. caught 1 10- 11 " trout, 1 6' perch.3 fish for 4,-5 anglers. 3 trailers at the DNR launch.
By: catchanything66
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my brother started out about 07:30 am trying to catch kokanee fish. But after several hours and only one trout. It got boring. Then when we found where the trout were at, we stayed in that area...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/18/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Well hit American lake today with my 20 yr old son and had a blast. We arrived at 10:00 am and headed to the north end of the lake and started fishing. Got a few RB's right off the bat and was good ...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Hitched a ride on my buddies boat again since my pontoon is down and out. We started Still fishing first thing in the morning to no avail. So we switched back to our gold spoons and started trolling. ...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/11/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/11/2016
Hot Spots: 2
My second outing of the year was to American Lake 4-11-16. All equipment was in working order. Well except for that annoying oil warning beep. To bad they don’t have recalls for outboards.
The mornin...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 4/7/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7:30 to noon. No deeper than 25 down on the wire. Green seemed to get more fish with Toni's Green Ice getting 3 of the 5 we came home with. Nice size to the planters. Great day to be on th...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 4/4/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got there zero dark thirty, hopped a ride in a buddies boat. We trolled various flashers, dodgers, pop gear, hoochies, flies, spinners. One drive bye in 2 1/2 hours. Ended up catching our our limits d...
By: Bilgewater
Posted: 4/2/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled April 1 with no bites. Shallow and deep. Trolled March 31 also, had one fish to the boat before it shook loose. No other bites.
Why is it that reports about American Lake, between Janua...
By: nickbell
Posted: 4/2/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/2/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Little action today. Showed up to the boathouse early, but the dock quickly got packed, so we decided to rent a boat. Fished mostly worms with a bit of powerbait, either dropping straight down or wi...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 3/29/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American lake with a couple co-workers. Two of us were fishing and we each caught a limit of fish. Trolled the main body of the lake at 15 feet deep, with a rocky mountain dodger and pink hooc...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 3/29/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/29/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Got started fishing at around 12:00 and fished till 3:00. Went to the north end and trolled with the wind to the south. I marked a few fish around 30 to 40 FOW so I ran our 4 lines from 25 to 40 ft do...
Posted: 3/27/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
tried off the bottom ,white and pink power eggs brought the only fish 11 in, tryed kastmaster,s spinners ,powerbait nothing,but great day on the water.
By: Mr Fitten
Posted: 3/21/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for the first time this year lookin fir smallies. No luck there fishing all the spots I know. So there is a guy on the bank who reels in a nice big trout. He throws it back in while we are ta...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 3/20/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
A long morning of trolling the west and north side of the island. Fish were deep and had lockjaw. Had four rods out with pink cha cha rigs, guilded lilly, orange cha cha, and finally a cop car spoon. ...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 3/17/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/16/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Picked up three rainbows all around 9 inches on the very northern part of American Lake by the apartments. Had a few jumpers after a weak hatch going on. Picked up all fish 10 feet down the wire. S...
By: Bilgewater
Posted: 3/16/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
No rain today. Overcast and a light northerly breeze in the morning. I flat-lined shallow, but got no bites in 3 1/2 hours. Noted 2 or 3 other trollers, including one fisherman who fishes American ...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 3/12/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The kokanee were running about 45 ft to 60 ft deep. I got no takers there. The perch were in massive schools at the section of the lake I was fishing. I managed 2 17+ inch rainbows and 3 12 to 13 i...
By: marthalb
Posted: 3/9/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/8/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Went out for a nice day of shore fishing. Had to cast a bit further out than last time, and the fish were less active, but took home a nice 12" rainbow. I was floating Orange garlic eggs with a few ...