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By: MCM
Posted: 5/24/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at 5 AM, just before a bass tournament started. Calm water at about 60 degrees. Tried a few things but as always the wedding ring produced results for this lake (well, for my wife). She a...
By: ReelFisher
Posted: 5/16/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 1pm and even though there were a lot of people out today it was still nice to not have to wear a jacket while fishing. So I trolled for about 2 hours with my daughter and never...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 5/16/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/16/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the water at about 6:15am. Caught a couple small Trout near the boat launch. Trolled towards the Hospital with the rest of the folks and only got one other bite. I was trolling Dick Nites in C...
By: ReelFisher
Posted: 5/15/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Okay so I got out to the lake pretty early this morning around 6 just when the sun was rising and I noticed the fish were jumping and seemed to be feeding hard so I hit the water trolling with a mepps...
By: ReelFisher
Posted: 5/13/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2008
Hot Spots: 1
So we got to the lake around 5PM and started trolling out around Russel Landing (Ft. Lewis side). About 30 minutes went by and we started thinking it was going to be another slow trip but then it star...
By: eenakok
Posted: 5/13/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I went to American with my dad and son (Cole, 3). We got to the lake @ 6:30 and started trolling. We were using wedding rings behind a 4/0 chrome dodger. One rod had green the other one red. Right off...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I launched about 8AM from the WDFW boat launch. It wasn't too crowded, maybe a dozen trailers in the lot. Trolled straight out then around the south end. Noticed a lot of rainbows jumping in the area...
By: Rthr_B_Fishn
Posted: 5/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2008
Hot Spots: 2
On the water today at 800 or so. was Mixed bag but the wind was fierce i thought it was going to dump rain. the lake had probably 8 or 9 boats out when id got there, the guys with real motors were on ...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 5/7/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Three of us hit American after renting a boat out of Bill's Boathouse.
I caught 5 bows all on a wee dick nite in Copper. "E" switched to the same lure I had but went deeper and caught 2 nice fat ...
By: runway12
Posted: 5/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake just as the rain had started. Lots of hit but only one fish. We trolled wedding ring spinners tipped with night crawlers around the island and then the north-side in hopes of getting a...
By: eenakok
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 1
We hit American Lake this afternoon. We got there around 4:30 and fished till about 8:00. This was the first time fishing this lake from a boat so we did a lot of investigating. We were able to catch ...
By: conquest
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled around the island and by the VA Hospital trying to land some of the kokanee I heard were being caught. No luck today as it was raining and cold. I'll try again tomorrow.
I've fished this la...
By: Arimaguy
Posted: 4/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took a friend with me today to get another hook in the water. And still no luck. He did pull a tiny only out by the VA but we shook it off at the boat. That was within the first 5 min and no bites aft...
By: Arimaguy
Posted: 4/25/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Used the Southern launch cause the one near the VA is still ripped up. Didn't have any luck trolling around in front of the VA. only a few other boats out there and the water was like glass for the fi...
By: Awoods
Posted: 4/21/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/21/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well I went fishing down at Harry Todd Park today. I usually have success on this part of the lake, but today was a different story. No fish were caught by me or the four other people on the dock. I'...
By: leahcim_dahc
Posted: 4/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit American Lake around 9:30am. Wind was south, southwest at about 10mph, gusting maybe 15-20mph around noon. Water temperature averaged 46 degrees from the public boat launch just north of Camp Murr...
By: joshswrench
Posted: 4/15/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with a buddy on American hoping to catch a few hold over trout, kokes or anything else. Ending up getting skunked after about 6 hours. Trolled, drop shot, spinners, spoons, cranks, flys... yo...
By: Awoods
Posted: 4/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well weather finally gave me a chance to go fishing. Decided to go to American in hopes the good fishing came back. I had many many bites, but only landed 1. The one that I landed I just had super sla...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/5/2008
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
we were in a boat and trolleying and only had one hit. the wind was blowing to hard. we were using a wooley bugger and gulp maggots. saw the fish on a fish finder. but nothing.
By: danielt
Posted: 4/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Water is still cold 45-47 and fish are still deep. Conditions were almost perfect with rain and wind + cloud cover. Smallie was 4lbs 9oz. I didn't realize how close the fish and I were to the camera b...
By: wadoc
Posted: 4/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake early trolled for few hrs tried wedding rings,flat fish,spinners and no takers. So it's time for down rigger with all the same and no takers still determined to stick some lips i went to ...
By: devdavis1221
Posted: 3/31/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
it was an ok day at the lake. there were really no bites cept towards the end of the day hooked one but didn't land it. ill be back tomorrow.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/30/2008
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had a bad case of fishingidous, so I went to American about 9am. Got snowed on the 1st hour, then it turned nice. Had 3 hookups landed just one, but what a fish, a 6.95# Rainbow. I was using a homemad...
By: wadoc
Posted: 3/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Cold and wet, but i had to fish. I'm a kokanee addict so American lake is a good a lake to be found for year around trolling.
I'm normally found on the west shoreline and over to the island and back,...
By: Bigggtree
Posted: 3/25/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
8 nice rainbows 14-16" very thick fish. Didn't see a lot of schools.fishing in about 50-65' of water.Slow and about 1/4 of lead. Fish are about 15' to 25'. Got a lot of hard hit just couldn't hookem....
