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By: crinklefish
Posted: 4/17/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on American Lake yesterday with a friend. Took my best Rod Stewart and rigged it up with my favortie Don Cheedlefish. My buddy's rod was Ted Dancin' all day because of take downs. Must have h...
By: arniejl
Posted: 4/21/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Trusted the weather report of winds to 6-8mph. Put in on American around 10:30 or so. Wind was howling. Found some promising looking docks, second dock fished hooked up with a smallie. Fish came righ...
By: arniejl
Posted: 4/22/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started at daylight this morning just in case the wind decided to be a pill. Hit a few docks for 1/2 an hour or so then headed for the dock that I lost the big one at yesterday. First cast in the sam...
By: rockjiggr
Posted: 4/23/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Did the daybreak thing at American today and had a pretty good time on the water despite not catching any bass again. The bass skunk is strong on American for me this spring. Caught a limit of those f...
By: Keith
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to hit American by myself because the kid is with his mom this weekend and the other fishing buddy works nights so he was sleeping. Caught a mix bag 11 fish total 2 10 inch perch 6 trout 12 to...
By: Ocktane
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing around 1400. Got bit and had a trout follow the drop shot early on but then we spent a long 5 hours with nothing. Dropshot, football heads, shakey heads even crankbaits and nothin......
By: f1sh1nf00l
Posted: 5/8/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Was supposed to fish Spanaway with Arniejl, but I screwed those plans up. So he came over to American and met me, and we went out to see what the smallies were doin. Started the day throwin 1/2 oz ble...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 5/14/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American Lake this morning. Took my daughter with me. It was the second trip out there for my son and I. There were quite a few people on the water by the time we got there, which was about at...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/18/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
American Lake is my go-to smallmouth lake. This trip never touched a smallmouth. Fished, among other baits, Sencos shallow and dropshop in depths from 8 ft to 14 ft. These have always been my best bai...
By: Ocktane
Posted: 10/23/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Thought I'd try fishin for some fall American bass today but came up short. Threw football head jigs and dropshotted primarily. Had a heck of a time finding fish on my Humminbird and ended up with o...
By: procaster
Posted: 11/4/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
So my plan was to hit the Skokomish, then fish for smallies on American, but the plan ended up different than I had envisioned. After taking care of some unexpected responsibilities, I made it to th...
By: procaster
Posted: 1/9/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the lake about 10:45 and launched by base. I went north just past "Bobs Boat House" zigg zagging from about 20ft to 50ft looking for fish. I only marked a single fish, but it looked smal...
By: f1sh1nf00l
Posted: 3/13/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Woke up to steady rain....my son wouldn't get up to go fishin' with me....my fishin' buddy wouldn't answer his phone....but I had to get out on the water! So I headed out by myself, launched from the...
By: rockjiggr
Posted: 4/9/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Did a daybreak, early morning trip to American. Water temp is still COLD- 48 degrees. Just a slight breeze from the SW this morning which made it much more tolerable than previous weekend. Did not fin...
Posted: 6/14/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to American Lake today with my buddy LMBDave and one of our friends.
We pretty much cruises the shore stopping by and fishing the docks.
We were targetting the smallmouths but caught ...
By: Ocktane
Posted: 6/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at 5 am, beautiful morning! Started getting bites from the get go. Started the day pitching senkos, lizards, and turtleback worms in green, watermelon, and black, with red specks. The ...
By: f1sh1nf00l
Posted: 6/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at about 4:30 pm. Variable wind, from breezy to windy. Cool with scattered showers and a few sun breaks. Fished northeast first, but wind picked up and made it difficult, so we headed to...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I got tired of getting skunked at Sawyer, so I decided to hit up American instead. At least I know I'll be able to land something, even though if it's only RockBass.
And boy did I get those RockBa...
By: Lock3056
Posted: 6/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2010
Hot Spots: 1
Got a late Start Saturday Morning, Left the dock around 8am. I was reading about Dropshoting and decided to give it a try. I rigged up a dropshot rig with a Gary Yamamoto Watermellon colored Crayfish ...
By: Fatbasstard
Posted: 6/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Thought I would try something different. With a total of 3 smallmouth bass caught in my life, it was time to expand. 6:15am I am in the water (surface temp 60.2) 20 minutes later, I hook into one, 3+ ...
By: f1sh1nf00l
Posted: 6/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got home from work early enough to hit the lake for a couple of hours. American is still putting out quality fish. My son got the biggest fish tonight (again...), guess I taught him too well. Drop sho...
By: Ocktane
Posted: 6/8/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake just after 5am. Trolled along the banks south of the boat launch, just by the submerged rocks fishing a YUM watermelon lizard. Nailed the first fish of the day; little smallie. Continu...
By: f1sh1nf00l
Posted: 6/11/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I hit American for a couple of hours before dark looking for some smallies. It seems as though the smallies are finally bedding in significant numbers. The rock bass seem to be done bedding...
By: f1sh1nf00l
Posted: 6/22/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I feel I'm being redundant, so this will be my last American Lake post for a while. It's hard to pass up heading out to the lake on a nice evening like this one, they've been few and far between latel...
By: Lock3056
Posted: 6/26/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/26/2010
Hot Spots: 2
Got on the lake around 8:00 this moring, headed to Little American, didn't have any luck. I cant for the life of me figure out why, the Shoreline looks so inviting. Headed to the Sunken island near th...
