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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...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 2/25/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/24/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Well I have been to American lake a few times this year so far and have come home empty most trips. I arrived and started fishing about 1pm and headed to the north end of the lake. I dropped my line...
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...
By: Toni
Posted: 2/22/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I met my brother Richard and Kim (pink pole) at the launch. We started around 7:30am headed south out of the WDFW launch. It was windy and my new Mr. Heater Buddy wouldn’t stay lit so we were cold. Wa...
By: billyl
Posted: 2/17/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Amercain Lake today. One bow on fly and one on a wiggle hoocie.
Chester got real excided after the first fish. Had three quick release.
Great weather for February
By: bandseeker
Posted: 2/15/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Lots on the fish finder, but not biting at all. going to switch to the afternoon instead of the morning. Lots of big rainbows chasing mosquitos jumping around the lake. Need to bring my flyrod today....
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: bandseeker
Posted: 1/31/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/31/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Looking for a few kokanee and ended up with one 12 inch rainbow trout in about 4 hours of fishing. First one of the year! Saw a bunch of perch schooled up in 70 to 90 feet of water. A few kokanee with...
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: Hunter757
Posted: 1/27/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/25/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Well decided to hit up American lake to see if the fish are going to start playing nice. Saw Toni of wanafishalure heading out in her truck. I stoped and talked to Cami and Glenn from F24 but they ha...
By: Toni
Posted: 1/25/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I went out with Glen and Cami (F24) this morning. We started about 8am. We finished around 10:30am. We got zero bites. We tried surface to 40 feet trolling and got nothing. It was foggy until we were ...
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: 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: 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: OldVet
Posted: 12/27/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/26/2014
Hot Spots: 1
We fished from noon until about 3:30. We had one drive by and then nothing. We went around the island and then over in front of the VA, nothing. Then my brother had a big hit, 15 minutes later he land...
By: rythefisherman
Posted: 12/26/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Launched the boat at 9. Started fishing right out of the launch. Trolled two hours without a bite. Got a decent bite on the ford fender, but it didn't stick. An hour later my rod goes off. It didn't s...
By: SCLipRipper
Posted: 12/23/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/22/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Out hunting bronze backs again on Monday - with absolutely no luck. I did manage to catch double digit rainbow trout though - they were biting all over the lake, caught at least one at almost every s...