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By: whi5key429
Posted: 5/30/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American Lake to try our luck at trolling for some Kokes. We were using a wedding ring tipped with corn. We caught 5 rainbows with no luck of landing a Kokanee. We had one next to the boat but...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 5/30/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well wanted to fish so hooked up the boat and headed to American for some afternoon fish time. Trolled all over had a few take down right away but they were RB. We fished for another three hours and...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 5/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/17/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Well got the itch to catch some fish so hooked up the boat and headed to American for some fun! Hit the lake around 11am and headed over to north end to start fishing. Lines in two rods one pink and...
By: Nitrosteve
Posted: 5/16/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Recently returned back to WA after a two year Army assignment out of state. With the amazing warm weather that we had last week, I have been patiently waiting to get back on the water for Kokes.
Star...
By: tyeee
Posted: 5/13/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/13/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Got on the water around 8:30AM. Water was calm and the launch was not busy. I trolled 30' down with my rig about 25' foot back. I used a small dodger with a wedding band about 18" back from the dod...
By: Onmygame
Posted: 5/9/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My sons and I hit American this again this morning with the same set ups as last week - 2 downriggers down the wire at 20' pulling dodgers with wedding band spinners (red) tipped with a lone pink Gulp...
By: TBear_fishin
Posted: 5/8/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Up at 6 this morning. That is late for me. After a good nights sleep and as I haven't gone fishing for a while, my adventure begins. After stopping at McD's for coffee and s/e burritos, I arrive at on...
By: Oldcoastie7
Posted: 5/6/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Went to Russell Landing to take my boat out. It was a bit rough and my first mate doesn't like rough water so we decided to fish from shore. There is a small fishing dock just south of Russell Landi...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Started later, 0830 lines in. No bites on the gold spoons so switched to the slingblade and hoochie with smile blade and a little corn. Hooked 5 or 6 trout and one small Kokanee. All fish caught abou...
By: Onmygame
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the launch with my two sons just a bit after 6:00 a.m. and was trolling twenty minute later west of Silcox along the VA hospital. All three of us have two rod endorsements, but I ran just o...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 5/1/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Had a good time trolling gold spoons around in the morning. First two fish were Kokanee , but they were small' maybe 10 in, so we let them go. The gold spoon thing worked until about nine'ish then the...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 4/29/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I finally got into a few kokanee on American. Caught 3 and long released 3. All were about 12 inches. All caught between 9 and 17 feet down the wire. Used pink wedding rings tipped with corn or be...
By: Rip Lipper
Posted: 4/29/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2016
Hot Spots: 2
The 2 perch are fat with eggs. They are the first I caught this year. I am going to lay off the perch for a few weeks till they are done spawning.
By: LJTPerry
Posted: 4/27/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2016
Hot Spots: 1
My wife and I hit the dock in shoreline park. There was a couple on the other side knocking them dead. They caught one after another, landing 9 in about an hour. We didn't find out what bait they were...
By: Quotient
Posted: 4/26/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Bill's dock 4 hours. caught 1 10- 11 " trout, 1 6' perch.3 fish for 4,-5 anglers. 3 trailers at the DNR launch.
By: catchanything66
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my brother started out about 07:30 am trying to catch kokanee fish. But after several hours and only one trout. It got boring. Then when we found where the trout were at, we stayed in that area...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/18/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Well hit American lake today with my 20 yr old son and had a blast. We arrived at 10:00 am and headed to the north end of the lake and started fishing. Got a few RB's right off the bat and was good ...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Hitched a ride on my buddies boat again since my pontoon is down and out. We started Still fishing first thing in the morning to no avail. So we switched back to our gold spoons and started trolling. ...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/11/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/11/2016
Hot Spots: 2
My second outing of the year was to American Lake 4-11-16. All equipment was in working order. Well except for that annoying oil warning beep. To bad they don’t have recalls for outboards.
The mornin...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 4/7/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7:30 to noon. No deeper than 25 down on the wire. Green seemed to get more fish with Toni's Green Ice getting 3 of the 5 we came home with. Nice size to the planters. Great day to be on th...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 4/4/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got there zero dark thirty, hopped a ride in a buddies boat. We trolled various flashers, dodgers, pop gear, hoochies, flies, spinners. One drive bye in 2 1/2 hours. Ended up catching our our limits d...
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: nickbell
Posted: 4/2/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/2/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Little action today. Showed up to the boathouse early, but the dock quickly got packed, so we decided to rent a boat. Fished mostly worms with a bit of powerbait, either dropping straight down or wi...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 3/29/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American lake with a couple co-workers. Two of us were fishing and we each caught a limit of fish. Trolled the main body of the lake at 15 feet deep, with a rocky mountain dodger and pink hooc...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 3/29/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/29/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Got started fishing at around 12:00 and fished till 3:00. Went to the north end and trolled with the wind to the south. I marked a few fish around 30 to 40 FOW so I ran our 4 lines from 25 to 40 ft do...