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By: jimbolya
Posted: 3/7/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Dodged a series of rainstorms, putting in right when one was finishing about 2:15. Started at the launch in the SW corner, trolled all the way up around the island to the north end, looped and came ha...
By: marthalb
Posted: 2/27/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/27/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Put in a good day's work on the lake shore today. Used Berkley's Gulp Garlic scented orange salmon eggs sandwiched between two green salmon eggs on a 1 1/2 to 2" leader with 2 or 3 split shots. Got ...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 2/23/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/23/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Hit American today hoping to find some fish...arrived around 10 am and left around 2 pm. Not one single bite, had plenty of fish come up from the depths at my lines or dr ball showed up on the FF. M...
By: Bilgewater
Posted: 2/23/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
No bites during 3 hours of trolling. Saw very, very few fish on sonar. It feels like there are not many fish in the lake right now. I don’t know if the other troller I saw had any action. Likewis...
By: Toni
Posted: 2/21/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I met Glenn and Cami at the launch at 10am. This was the first time getting in a boat and out fishing for 2016. It was a first for testing my knee after total knee replacement. I was able to get in an...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 2/14/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/13/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day of fishing today we trolled the Northwest Bank about 3 to 4 hours with no luck marked a few fish on the north side. Weather was nice and calm for the morning. I did get the boat out though...
By: marthalb
Posted: 2/8/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/8/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Started out at around 3:45 pm on the most southern part of the lake, the dock behind the housing area. Thought I'd get lucky with the sun out and the warm up we've been having. I used dough off the ...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 2/8/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Sunny and warm, so I went out to see how well the down-riggers worked on the new boat. This is the fourth time out first two were breaking on the motors and third time seeing if the bow mount would pu...
By: Bilgewater
Posted: 2/7/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The sunny, calm Super Bowl Sunday brought out a number of boats. The one troller I talked with had the same result as me: Nothing. Did anyone catch anything in American today?
By: greenrowboat
Posted: 1/30/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Been fishing American this and last month, caught mostly 14-16" RB's, a Koke now and again. Last 3 (times) weeks have been slow... no fish- any idea what these weights are worth? Thanks, Gary
By: Hunter757
Posted: 1/21/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/20/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Hit American Lake today for five hours after trying a few days ago and had to cut it early due to no pee on the kicker. Got that fixed and decided to give it another go. Started out in my normal spo...
By: billyl
Posted: 11/21/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/20/2015
Hot Spots: 1
We didn't have any luck finding the planted bows. Started at boat ramp and work
Our way out. Trolling most of the time and tried still fish.
If you go out try the center of the lake. I think they...
By: Toni
Posted: 11/3/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I haven’t been to this lake since 4-21-15. I was amazed at how low the water was after our long, dry, hot, summer.
It was mostly cloudy and when I started, 8:30am, there wasn’t any wind but later i...
By: robert4681
Posted: 10/23/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/22/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Two of us launched my Smokercraft Osprey at 9:00am. Trolling with pop gear and strung on nite crawlers we caught
6 Kokanee and 2 Rainbows by noon. We did not use downriggers just 1/2 oz. weights at...
By: Sheepdog981
Posted: 10/21/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/16/2015
Hot Spots: 2
This report is dedicated to the fisherman that get mad when people post reports online...
On the water by 0945 after dropping the kids off at school. Trolled a pink splatter Dick Nite dodger with a...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 9/28/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Well my oldest son wanted to go fishing so we packed up and headed out to American for a few hours. Made a few passes along west side of lake marked a bunch of fish but no takers. We headed north an...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 9/16/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/15/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Decided it was time to hit the water at American lake. I have not been there in a long time and well have not been on the water in over a month it was time. I arrived around 10 am launched and just ...
By: smokey34
Posted: 9/10/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/10/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Hit American at 7:00 AM - Only one other boat in sight. After a little consternation with the trolling motor, managed to locate a decent school at 35 ft in 80ft near the county launch. Two nice k...
By: billyreed
Posted: 9/8/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got 3 in the boat. 2 on downrigger and 1 long lining. On long line a Dick Nite pink Splatter and Apex. Down riggers had scent chamber, hot wings, silver Wobbler and a Mack Hoochie thingy. The other wa...
By: Rip Lipper
Posted: 9/7/2015
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/5/2015
Hot Spots: 1
The perch just love them garden worms on a red hook!
By: Mr Fitten
Posted: 8/17/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/15/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Went out to American Lake thinking the cool cloudy conditions would keep the wave makers off the water. I was right, sept one guy who thought the only place to ski was the small area i was fitten in. ...
By: Sheepdog981
Posted: 8/14/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I said I would not be back at this lake until the rain kept the yahoo's away. I kept my word. We did have to wait an hour to launch due to the lightning. The perch kept me busy by constantly hitting K...
By: Sheepdog981
Posted: 7/17/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 0500. Limited out by 0900. 4 Kokanee and 1 RBT. All caught 29ft on the wire at 1.2mph. Used: KoneZone moonjelly 4" flasher with Radical Glow pink micro hoochie and a Mack's DD Dodger with ...
By: DannyMac
Posted: 7/13/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took my daughter and sister out to American Lake on Saturday evening just to tool around the boat there first time on this boat. So I didn't plan on fishing but I showed them how the down rigger works...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 7/10/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Typically would not come to american at 1 o'clock but trigonometry is taking up all my time. I needed a break so I headed to the lake. After I escaped from the jet ski that continually did circles aro...