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By: Bilgewater
Posted: 11/5/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/5/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I cast from shore for a little bit, with no bites. The water level is lower than I’ve ever seen it, so low that no water is flowing over the outlet structure at the south end of Little American. In ...
By: Bilgewater
Posted: 3/27/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/26/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled for 3 hours with no bites. Surface temp was 48. In two-plus hours of underwater video only one fish examined the nightcrawler, but didn’t want it. Six or eight others swam into the view of ...
By: Bilgewater
Posted: 10/23/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
No bites. At this time of year, rainbow and kokanee that have shown up in numerous videos are few and far between. It’s mostly a perch show.
By: Bilgewater
Posted: 2/10/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/9/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Getting no bites in American seems to be the norm for me. I located two small schools but nobody there wanted to play.
Last year I realized that my fish finder would showed large schools of fish a...
By: Bilgewater
Posted: 7/31/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/19/1992
Hot Spots: 0
To what extent do you suppose water temperature influences fish to bite or not? The fish weren’t biting on anything I tried, so I checked the temperature of water layers.
American Lake is a fairl...
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: 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: 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: 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: Bilgewater
Posted: 5/14/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Today I trolled past 40-50 dead perch, all around 6 inches long, floating belly-up in American Lake between the WDFW launch and Little American. Two employees at the Camp Murray campground told me th...