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By: greenrowboat
Posted: 3/30/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Drifted downwind without power while trolling worms,orange power-bait, DickNite, orange flatfish and spinner lures. Had some fun, especially on the 15". Lost a nice bow (16-17") on the third air jum...
By: Stuffy
Posted: 3/30/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Met my partner and his daughter at the North launch about 1pm. The wind was picking up but not a show stopper. We trolled north of the island and north bay, but no luck on Koks. We did pick up a rainb...
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: Big Smooth
Posted: 3/28/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake before light and pounded the west side for 5 hours. Nothing but a couple bows when we got tired of the downrigger troll. Water temp was only 51..so we could have a few more days. Good mor...
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: jford0731
Posted: 3/25/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/25/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Trolled around at American today from about 1130 to 3:30 PM. Wind was really bad and there were only one other boat out. I nailed a small trout right off the dock at JBLM. Went to the north part of th...
By: bassman72
Posted: 3/23/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/22/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Decided to try American after a failed trip to Spanaway last week. Headed out after church and got there about 1:30. Decided to try a little shallow water snice I found a cove area with water temps a...
By: ScottinMilton
Posted: 3/23/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/22/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Left the free launch at first light. anchored in 45 foot of water. We caught 2 fish before we even had chum out. we left with seven fish the largest was 20 inch male. we got our 4 over 14 and were abl...
By: joeortega
Posted: 3/21/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
fished American with a new friend windy and cold fishing was great was able to boat 1 kokanee, 2 14' trout and 4 nice sized perch my friend was able to hook a trout that was really big and a few perch...
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: bandseeker
Posted: 3/15/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Nothing short of horrible, maybe monday. Fish were jumping, nice healthy rainbows, but the wind and rain where in full mode
. The Grey sky only tempered my expectations, but in the end all was fo...
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: 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: 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: jford0731
Posted: 3/13/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/13/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Tough day on the water as far as fishing but what a great weather day. Trolled for 3 hours at American, threw everything I had at em and nothing. Marked fish mostly at 30-40 and the biggest buches wer...
By: Toni
Posted: 3/10/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Steve Ericsson fixed my big motor last week, put in my new fish finder, and made a new winch stand for the trailer. Thank you. Monday, Auburn Marine fixed the Yamaha kicker recall while I waited. To...
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: jford0731
Posted: 3/9/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/8/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Second day out this season with the boat. Second day without a bite! Launched about 12:30 from JBLM, fished primarily around the Lakewood dock just past the VA on the West side of the lake. I was m...
By: koke-aholic
Posted: 3/7/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out last sunday and today, not a bite. Couple more weeks maybe, water temp was 49 degrees.
By: bass junkie
Posted: 3/4/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got to american around Noon , fished the main island for about an hour with jerkbaits and cranks no luck. Headed over to the bank where the VA hospital is located and within 20 minutes hooked into a ...
By: ScottinMilton
Posted: 3/2/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/1/2015
Hot Spots: 1
We left the free launch at 7 fished till 11 two people in the boat still fishing. caught 2 limits of real nice 13-15 inch rainbows. fished 45 feet of water it was cold in the morning and lots of fun t...
By: schoechert
Posted: 3/1/2015
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Had a pretty good day jogging for perch for the first time on American lake this year. Ended up with 13 and a bonus rainbow with most being in the 9 to 11 inch range. Fish came on gold kastmaster spoo...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 3/1/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/1/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Marked lots of Kokanee very deep with the fish finder around 80 feet in 90 feet of water. Also saw some in the 40 ft range. Not a nimble today. Saw one guy get one and a couple trout caught.
By: kokanee_slayer
Posted: 3/1/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First American Lake Kok of 2015:
It’s been slow going for Kokanee this Winter at the home lake but after a lot of perseverance and time on the water, I was able to land my first Kok this year and l...
By: Lindajean
Posted: 2/28/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished off the dock at the boathouse at American Lake this morning. Was quite windy...in fact left because I couldn't control my casts anymore as the wind picked up. I did catch a 14 inch rainbow tr...