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By: gunnybyrd
Posted: 5/26/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
What a great way to spend Memorial Day, chasing the hungry trout on American Lake. Morning started slow, but once they stated hitting, it was hard to keep up. Only took four home, averaged two poun...
By: robert4681
Posted: 10/23/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/22/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Two of us launched my Smokercraft Osprey at 9:00am. Trolling with pop gear and strung on nite crawlers we caught
6 Kokanee and 2 Rainbows by noon. We did not use downriggers just 1/2 oz. weights at...
By: billyl
Posted: 11/21/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/20/2015
Hot Spots: 1
We didn't have any luck finding the planted bows. Started at boat ramp and work
Our way out. Trolling most of the time and tried still fish.
If you go out try the center of the lake. I think they...
By: greenrowboat
Posted: 1/30/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Been fishing American this and last month, caught mostly 14-16" RB's, a Koke now and again. Last 3 (times) weeks have been slow... no fish- any idea what these weights are worth? Thanks, Gary
By: marthalb
Posted: 2/8/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/8/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Started out at around 3:45 pm on the most southern part of the lake, the dock behind the housing area. Thought I'd get lucky with the sun out and the warm up we've been having. I used dough off the ...
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: Toni
Posted: 7/29/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This was really a tryout of the new motors and maybe catch something. I had my grandson with me. Big motor started. Great. Turned the fish finder on. Nothing. Tried the downriggers. Nothing. Bilge pum...
By: crawfishman
Posted: 5/31/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/27/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Took my girlfriend out for her first early morning fishing trip, and brought along a couple other fishing buddies that I haven't seen in ages. Got to Bill's Boathouse around 6:15, started fishing arou...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 4/26/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I noticed I wash having an idle issue the other day when I was on the lake and my motor kept wanting to die. I think the carbs needed to be cleaned. I decided to put some sea foam in the tank and som...
By: Dillarb
Posted: 5/14/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at the park and was fishing at 7:30am. Trolled around the island and got my first fish in front of the boathouse at 8:30, circled around and got a second. Had four fish in the boat by 9:30, c...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 5/22/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
fished from 6:30 to 10:00 with only one small RBT on pink wedding ring and pink splatter dodger at around 20'. Tried lots of the usual stuff one other hit on a triple teaser tipped with a worm, Nice d...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/23/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/22/2017
Hot Spots: 1
I got to the lake about 5:30am to fish and test my motor out. After launching the big motor started very quick. Let it idle a little then went out to see if it would go fast again. It did!
I starte...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 1/16/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Melissa, the dogs and I hit American Lake on Sunday. Wanted to try out some new Kokanee rods and reels picked up for Christmas. We set the downriggers up with Kokanee gear and varied depths. We als...
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: salmonbarry
Posted: 5/9/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2018
Hot Spots: 0
So I haven't really fished American lake much the past few years but with the derby this Saturday thought I would give it a try now that I had the Tin Cup back and running with a new power head instal...
By: Krakenteeth
Posted: 8/27/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2018
Hot Spots: 1
We got to Bill's Boathouse around 9:30 and between the two of us caught 8 by 11:00 am. I caught my limit. Some of them were nice and fat! The longest was 13" the shortest was around 10". We were us...
By: Toni
Posted: 9/4/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2018
Hot Spots: 1
My son Bo came down for a little bit of fishing. I took him to American Lake. This was the first time I think, I have been here this year, his, ever fishing it. It was sunny and about 50 out to begin ...
By: mikerobertd
Posted: 3/7/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/7/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Lines in the water and trolling at 10:30am 11 mph winds, it was a little windy but i trolled the lake to 4hrs and got no hits i made several passes at 15 feet 30 feet 38 feet and 45 feet the fish just...
By: mikerobertd
Posted: 3/8/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
lines in the water at 8:30am it started out snowing hard then cleared up not to much wind after it stopped snowing we trolled the lake with 5 hits and landed 2 fish not a bad day for the conditions.
By: EJ_Cal
Posted: 3/10/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/10/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Me and the family got out there around 9:30am and had the fish in the boat around 10. Flat lining with 1/2 cannonball weight back about 50-75 feet running a pink dodger with pink and chartreuse hot he...
By: que
Posted: 3/11/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/9/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to American Saturday to check out some smallmouth action and changed the plan after figuring out that all the fish on the graph were Rainbow trout. I had the pleasure of hooking up with Tim a...
By: Widgeonmangh
Posted: 3/20/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/18/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Shakedown cruise of a day. First fishing trip of 2019 and the first time getting to try out some new colors on the NTO Scent Spinner. Got on the water by about 10:30 and trolled all over the lake lo...
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: nerka nailer
Posted: 3/27/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to head out to American since the weather looked a little windy to fish the sound. I went solo today and hoped I might find some kokanee. Unfortunately I only found some small planters and two...
By: Widgeonmangh
Posted: 4/2/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/1/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake at around 10:30am and started trolling. Tolled the West side of Silcox, and a couple of passes by the VA. Not having any luck I headed to the North part of the lake and finally found...
