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By: Toni
Posted: 6/17/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Today was the day I went out without the experts from yesterday.
Kim (pinkpole) came out with me. We met around 6am and I don’t know what time we started fishing or what time we quit but I believe w...
By: Toni
Posted: 6/16/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a landmark. Or maybe watermark? Not only am I a year older I received my long awaited boat. Steve stayed up all night getting the downrigger stands fabricated.
Steve and Trent met me at...
By: Toni
Posted: 6/15/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
William was the only grandchild overnight so I thought we should go fishing. I told him he could wake me up when he woke up if it was daylight out. He wakes up too early when he is at my house. So he ...
By: Toni
Posted: 6/11/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I needed to sleep in and not feel rushed so I went to Clear Lake.
I was on the water at 9:15am done about 11am. I got them around 35 feet down on the cable in 65-80 foot of water. I started with sta...
By: Toni
Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Thanks to Mark the Kokanee_Slayer I came home with 4 very nice kokanee from American Lake June 8th.
It was an overcast morning with the promise of clearing later in the afternoon. The lake had a sma...
By: Toni
Posted: 6/3/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2014
Hot Spots: 1
My plan all day June 2 was to fish American on Tuesday the 3rd. Just before I went to bed I checked the weather report. I was really checking for wind. It said 6-9 mph. Well that is what it said the d...
By: Toni
Posted: 6/1/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 2
I met Glen and Cami at 4:30am or there abouts and ran to the Girl Scout Camp. I got my first salmon at 6am and it was just legal. I was trying to keep it close to the bottom whatever the depth was an...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/30/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2014
Hot Spots: 2
After going to the PSA meeting last night (late for me)I decided that I would sleep until I woke up then go to Clear Lake.
I was on the lake about 7am and first kokanee in the boat at 7:15am. Then n...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/27/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2014
Hot Spots: 1
My plan was to get up at 3:30 and get to American by 5am. I woke up at 11:00pm and couldn’t go back to sleep until 2:30am so I nixed that idea and went with the new plan. Turn off the alarm and sleep ...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/26/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2014
Hot Spots: 2
My plans changed due to lack of sleep on Sunday so I planned to go out to Clear Lake on Monday morning. I, also, wanted to smoke and can kokanee.
I devised a plan. Hook up the boat and trailer while...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/20/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/20/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Russ Carver graciously asked me if I wanted to go fishing in his boat on American and I said yes! So we scheduled to meet at 5:15am. After a mishap we were fishing by 6am.
I told him to go where I h...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/18/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We were hoping for a replay of Saturday and it looked like it may happen but after catching 4 fish., 2 each, that was it by 7am. There were four of us on the boat. A F24 brother-in-law came, too.
A f...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/18/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I met Glen and Cami (F24) at the launch and I think we were fishing by 5:30am. We got fish almost immediately. Or I should say Glen did. We were all using Wannafish A Lure Bloody Mary’s but Glen had ...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/14/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I was in line at 4:50am. On the lake and fishing by 5:30am. I headed toward the north launch and I got a cutthroat on my way. Then I saw a big koke jump 3 different times like he was hooked. He was o...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/13/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I had an appointment at 11:30am by the hospital in Puyallup so I thought I could get a couple hours of fishing before the running around I had to do and the appointment.
I was the first one in the p...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/11/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Every trip starts with preparation. I hooked up my boat the night before and walked by a tire on the trailer to see it was ballooned out. My neighbor had given me some tires he couldn’t use that I ke...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/6/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Only 4 other rigs in the lot when I launched. Not like last week. I got my first kokanee a little before 6am. I had only been on the water maybe less than a half hour when I got it. There was a breez...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/1/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2014
Hot Spots: 2
I got to the lake at 5:15am and there were already 7 rigs there. I started out using a Bloody Mary with the 0/0 Lurh Jesen dodger on the bottom clip and on the stacked I put the Dick Nite Chartreuse...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/1/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2014
Hot Spots: 2
There was already a line up at 5:30am at the WDFW launch. I got all my stuff in the boat after talking with a neighbor from up the street from me, Ron. He and his mother were out there to hunt down so...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/28/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2014
Hot Spots: 2
I was the second in the lot today and that surprised me. I got there around 5:30am and was fishing about 6am. Catfish(-er) was first. Nice to meet you.
I was stacking on the downriggers at 10 and...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/21/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/21/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Well 4:30am comes very quick if you go to bed at 11:30pm. But I had kokanee fever and had to get out and get some more of those footballs from American Lake. I was on the water and starting to fish by...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/20/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/20/2014
Hot Spots: 3
American Lake 4-20-14 Happy Easter
We were fishing just after 6am and Glen had one in the boat shortly after that. Then we waited a bit. I got one by the island. I can’t remember exactly how it all...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/15/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/13/2014
Hot Spots: 2
American Lake report for Apr 13, 14 2014
I went out with Glen and Cami of F24 with Jim at 6 am and we had to quit just before 10am because I had to go to work. They caught 3 kokanee and 4 or 5 rain...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/7/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/6/2014
Hot Spots: 1
We got on the water about 6:30am we stopped fishing around 1pm. We had 12 kokanee and lost a few. The water temp got up 50.9 degrees. The first part of the morning had drizzle which quit about mid mo...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/5/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/5/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I met F24 at the WDFW launch at 6:30am and I think we were fishing about 7am from their boat. We stopped just before 11am.
Our total kokanee take was 9 fish (12-14 inches) and 2 lost.
They were ...