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By: Toni
Posted: 4/21/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/21/2015
Hot Spots: 3
At 4:00 am the alarm goes off and I hit the snooze, seven times. Well needless to say I arrived at the launch later than I had planned in plan A. Plan B was, let’s just see what I can catch using up t...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 4/2/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished in the morning at 1000. Caught a limit of trout all around 13 inches. All caught on a hoochie and down rigger set at 8 feet down and 60 pulls back. Used canned shoepeg corn dipped in sand shrim...
By: rythefisherman
Posted: 4/2/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/2/2015
Hot Spots: 3
BEST DAY ON AMERICAN EVER, for us at least!! Caught 9 nice trout, largest about 14 inches, and none under 9 inches. All very healthy. Trolled in front of the VA hospital, and had a double right off th...
By: nickbell
Posted: 4/4/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This is my first report in quite some time.
I was pretty distracted with school for just about all of 2014. Hardly got to do any fishing. I'm finally getting back into the groove, so I planned a ...
By: Sheepdog981
Posted: 4/4/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/4/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Caught trout all day long, limited out. Average size 13-15" trolling "clown" and "pink splatter" dodgers and blue and orange wedding rings 8-11' feet down on the downriggers. No Kokes yet.
By: Sheepdog981
Posted: 4/10/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2015
Hot Spots: 2
A long but decent day out on 'Merican yesterday. Blue has been our best color the past two weeks (Used every color in my arsenal). I used a homemade set-up: spin-n-glo with some blue beads and a Musta...
By: larryw
Posted: 4/10/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/10/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Hit the lake around 3:30 today it was windy but not a lot of rain. Boated 8 or 9 trout in an hour and a half and lost a couple more. I was trolling a Rebel crawfish crankbait and couldn't keep them o...
By: nickbell
Posted: 4/12/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/12/2015
Hot Spots: 1
My Dad and I went back to the boathouse today and had a much better time. We showed up at around 6:30, and fished with slip bobbers and worms. The bite took a little while to get going, but we event...
By: Ford Fender
Posted: 4/12/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/12/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Arrived just after 6 am and launched in my little 10' boat in relatively choppy water. Headed left out of the launch and trolled a wedding ring behind a clown dodger with 1/2 oz of lead. Once the su...
By: bruceka49
Posted: 4/18/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I've fished American Lake several times the last three weeks with modest success each time out. I haven't been skunked and released fish some days. I've been using primarily pop gear and wedding ring...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 4/18/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Today, I went out on the water with two friends from work. We started fishing about 7:30 in the morning. We had three limits of fish by 11:00 in the morning. Most of the fish were between 12-13 inches...
By: nickbell
Posted: 4/19/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Rented a boat today, trolled from 7am till about noon. Used a few different colored dodgers and wedding rings. Wedding rings were red, and green, and tipped with corn. Trolled around the VA area, w...
By: greenrowboat
Posted: 3/16/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day on the lake, today. No skiers... Caught a nice rainbow (20-1/2") trolling/drifting with the wind. 4-1/2# dressed- without head/tail/guts/fins. A brother to the one I caught last month- 2-12-...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 3/26/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/26/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Well after a some heavy duty cleaning and waxing and installing almost everything I decided it was time for the maiden voyage for my new to me boat. Its a 2005 Weldcraft Maverick 182 DV with extended...
By: greenrowboat
Posted: 3/28/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Nice sunny day; American Lake, no skiers 'till I was leaving. trolling worms caught an 11, 12, 13, and 14" Rainbow, 13" fought the most. 2# leader 4', single split. Read that pics are good... two were...
By: ScottinMilton
Posted: 3/10/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/8/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Went fishing on American lake a few days this last week. Still fishing in about 45 foot of water using chum with an anchor out both ends of a 15 foot whaler has been very productive; although yesterda...
By: TimLWard
Posted: 3/13/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/13/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Launched at the JBLM Russell Landing boat ramp about 8:00 am and started fishing the area between the ramp and the floating fish pen. Also tried the cove around the small point to the left of the ram...
By: ScottinMilton
Posted: 3/14/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/13/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Two of us in the boat hit the water around 7 not as warm as it could have been but a great weather day lake was like a mirror. left launch and headed out to the north west corner of the lake anchored ...
By: ScottinMilton
Posted: 3/14/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I have been posting fishing reports without pictures the last few daze. The old saying that my step daddy used was no pictures no proof. These are proof of the fish my partner and I caught the past t...
By: Spaceyak1000
Posted: 1/11/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled for rainbows for about 3 hours in my kayak. No luck. Did some drop shop on points for smallmouth, nothing. Headed home around 11:30 AM. Talked to some boaters and fishing was slow for ...
By: Kaptain King
Posted: 1/12/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/10/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Launched kayaks at 10:00AM so a little bit late...We trolled flashers with wedding rings tipped with night crawlers from the public launch over to the front of the V.A. From there we went to casting r...
By: SCLipRipper
Posted: 1/18/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Father-in-law was in town from Georgia, so I took him out to target some American Lake Rainbows. Started out early working drop offs in the 40-60 ft range with some limited success, the wind was push...
By: RonAllen
Posted: 1/29/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Two fishing from a boat. We got out on the water around 10:30 and fished until 2. We left the public launch and headed left for a change of pace. We got 3 Rainbows. 15", 8", and 11". The 11" was ...
By: Lindajean
Posted: 2/11/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the Boathouse on American Lake this morning...caught 3 trout...one was a 14 inch fish and the other two were about 7 inches. Kept the larger and put the other two back into lake to grow up mo...
By: Toni
Posted: 2/24/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I started about 10:30am. Motor had a hard time starting, ended up blocking the ramps! I thought I saw kokanee_slayer running around the lake and sure enough it was.
I stayed at the south end to fish...
