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By: catfish Jim
Posted: 1/13/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/12/2014
Hot Spots: 1
This is for Saturday and Sunday I fished Saturday from 8:00am to 12:00pm and went 5 for 9 with yellow power eggs and garlic scent with 5 foot leader. Sunday I fished from 7:30am to 12:00pm and went 2 ...
By: catfish Jim
Posted: 1/10/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 8 to 12. Caught 5, lost 2.
By: Mikeel1987
Posted: 1/6/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/4/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Went back to American Lake to try our luck on some SMB and the morning started off just like the last time. A ton of decent and huge RBT to be had we must of caught 20-25 of them. Then around 1130 w...
By: kokanee_slayer
Posted: 1/2/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Caught the first American Lake Koks of 2014 yesterday morning. They were caught around Silcox Island at 27ft down on the wire at a trolling speed of 1.2 to 1.5. I used a Rocky Mountain Tackle 5.5 Baha...
By: rtk
Posted: 12/26/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We started fishing about 1130 this morning.There were quite a few boats out fishing today. The weather was great! We trolled a slingblade with a pink hootchie on one downrigger, a Dick Nite (silver) o...
By: Mikeel1987
Posted: 12/23/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/21/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Went to American Lake to try and catch some SMB but all we caught was Trout and 1 Kokkanee. Caught on all on a Drop shot with Berkley Minnow in various colors. Even caught 1 Cutthroat about 17 inche...
By: jd39
Posted: 10/27/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7:45 to a little past 1. Had another great time on American! There was a really good morning bite until 10ish then it slowed a bit. We were able to pick up 6 kokanee during the hot peri...
By: jd39
Posted: 10/27/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day scouting the green but didn’t do much fishing, couldn’t find a hole that looked deep enough to hold fish and by the time I did it was time to leave to meet a bud who works close to Ame...
By: scrminbanshee
Posted: 10/26/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/26/2013
Hot Spots: 1
After the recent reports i thought it would be fun to go out and give the perch a shot. I have never fished for perch before and always read that they were good eating. I caught a ton of smaller ones ...
By: bigbob663
Posted: 10/26/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
launched at sunrise on the south end of the lake. fished with worms off the bottom an caught about 30 perch. Only kept about 10 nice sized ones, about 11".
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 10/25/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Back out to American Lake today for some more perch. Went back to the south end of the lake again, and it didn't let me down. Probably caught 50 perch and kept 21 that were between 10 and 13 inches. A...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 10/21/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/21/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went to American Lake this morning, wanting to fish for perch. Went to the south end of the lake and caught all that I wanted. Probably caught somewhere around 50 perch, keeping 22 that were in the 10...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 10/18/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went back out to American Lake, wanting to put more perch filets in the freezer. Ended up catching just enough for a good dinner that night. Had a terrible time finding a school. They had totally vaca...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 10/16/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American Lake with the idea of fishing smallmouth. Couldn't find a fish. But I continued to find school after school of perch showing up on my graph recorder at around the 45 ft level. Why not...
By: Stuffy
Posted: 10/15/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/14/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Did some rivers and dark salmon. Did the lake and hook nosed kokes. Started at 11:30 and bite over at noon. Got 2 nice fish. Small dodger, pink squid and maggots 30 feet on ne shore in 50 feet water. ...
By: smokey34
Posted: 10/6/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the launch at 7 AM - totally fogged in! Motored slowly out to near the island using sonar and GPS, no other boats. A few light hits, but no hookups until just before 9 when the fog began to lift...
By: Toni
Posted: 10/5/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I haven’t got to fish American very much this year. Today I went with Kokanee_Slayer. We were on the water as it was getting light about 6:45am and the fog was enveloping the lake. We arrived at where...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 9/26/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/26/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went back out to American Lake this morning. Was on the water by 8:30. This time I was wearing my new PFD. Water temp was 65 degrees, down 5 degrees from this time last week. Never hooked a smallmouth...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 9/19/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Decided to go for quality rather than quantity. Forsook my favorite lake, Tapps and drove over to American Lake. It didn't let me down. I only caught 7, but four of them were 3 lbs or bigger, with the...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 9/9/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/9/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Lines wet 0630, first boat in the water! Fog not too bad with enough light to see. Started out with two koke between WDFW launch and Silcox Island. Circled around and picked up a 15 1/2" bow. Good sta...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 8/21/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/21/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Lines wet at 0600. Only 2 rigs in the lot! I (pink) wonder (pink) where (pink) everyone (pink) is?? Got out from the WDFW launch into 50' of water and set the DR on the meter marks at 38'. Set the Pin...
By: hilaker
Posted: 8/17/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Biggest koke yet. 18". Weeee!
By: rockjiggr
Posted: 8/13/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit American for perch again today. Did pretty good, caught 22 nice fat ones with average of about 12 inches. All caught on plastics on the bottom or drop shot. No consistent location and that makes s...
By: Perchripper
Posted: 8/12/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Found some nice perch but scattered and one pig on my perch rod 23" x 17" 7.25# on little hand scale
By: nickbell
Posted: 8/10/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This is my first report in quite some time. Its been over a year I believe. Things in my life have been preventing me to go fishing as often as I used to, like school, other hobbies, ect. But I was...