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By: snake7676
Posted: 2/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well I was on the water by 1:00pm started over by mikes boat house and the north tip of the island for 2hrs in 60ft of water and not even a bump ! Seen fish eating off the top of the water could'nt ...
By: Toni
Posted: 2/11/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
William and I got to the boathouse about noon. I have not been here in about 35 years so I didn’t know that you don’t drive down the hill because the driveway dead ends on top of the boathouse. I smo...
By: Mike@Bills
Posted: 2/11/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day to be back fishing! Some of you probably thought I died or something, I was doing 2 reports a weeks to nothing last week. Well I tore my MCL and chipped a piece of my femur or some ...
By: Mike@Bills
Posted: 2/14/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I did not think it is fair if I only report the good days (which have been quit a few lately) So here is a so so report. I was not going to fish today but then a friend came down and wanted to fish ...
By: Slacktime
Posted: 2/18/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American lake with my fishing buddy Capt got there about 10:30am and fished till 2pm. Caught a total of 4 fish today none smaller than 14" One was about a 18 - 20" pictured by my shoe which is...
By: fishinjerry2000
Posted: 2/22/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Well I have not done much reporting lately as not much of anything was caught. I went this morning and ended up fishing from 0630-1130 caught my limit of 5 ..1 15inch 1 14inch and 3 other about 12 in....
By: Mike@Bills
Posted: 2/26/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It was not raining so I decided to head to the dock and fish for just a little bit. I decided to experiment today. I have been catching a lot of little fish lately so instead of using 2 power eggs I...
By: Slacktime
Posted: 3/1/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished American Lake with my daughter, 3 hrs total and NOTHING for me today!! Warm and very windy out there. Tight linz to all.
By: SoDakboy
Posted: 3/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/2/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Never fished American Lake before, my buddy and I live in Bremerton, after reading an article on kokanee we decided to try it. Left the WDFW boat launch and trolled out to the south west corner of th...
By: Mong_fisherman
Posted: 3/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Setup.
6-8 ft leader
1/2 oz to 1/4 oz weight
Mike's Herring scent
Fluorescent yellow or Lime Green eggs
Caught several 5-7 inch rainbow fries. Released all of them. Caught 1-12 inch (released...
By: jd39
Posted: 3/4/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day fishing yesterday for us. Buddy and I launched around 10am and fished until 3:30ish. We tried trolling, still fishing, drift fishing, nothing seemed to work. We got a few bites with all m...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/10/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Fished from 6:00 to 10:00, from the state launch to the VA to the north end. top to 40 ft 4 lines, Hoochies, wiggle hoochie, wedding rings, crippulre, rooster tails, sling blades, doggers. Had 2 or ...
By: Stuffy
Posted: 6/3/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Got out on lake about 8:30? Started with downrigger, sling blade, 12" line to wedding ring and worm. I got one on the side side of the main island about 10am. It was drizzly, but not too cold. A lot o...
By: robert4681
Posted: 6/29/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Got on the water trolling by 7:30am. Trolling spinner and worm with 1 oz. weight. Started getting hits immediately. Had our limit of 11 to 12 inch rainbows by 10:00am. The fish seemed to be smaller t...
By: larryw
Posted: 6/16/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/16/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Fished American Lake the last four days in a row. The lake is full of rainbows, they are hitting
red wedding rings behind pop gear tipped with worm. Took a limit each day in less than a
hour. It's ...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 615 to 1030. Went from the WDFW ramp to the VA hops. up the W side over to the E side down to Little American. Got 5 lost 1 for two of us no real hot spots it was a long time between stri...
By: MotoBoat
Posted: 4/25/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/21/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Fishing? Word is I took a vet fishing on American Lake. Never fished there before. Word from down there. Was the boat house was cutting loose some pen raised trout. 13" or so in size, and fat!
W...
By: SoDakboy
Posted: 4/27/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had a late start because I had to dink around with my trailer lights. Got on the water around 1130. Anchored out north of Picnic Point, no luck. Headed to east of the seaplane launch before the shore ...
By: Nitrosteve
Posted: 4/28/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/28/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Happy Sunday to all!
After having a good run with the Kokes last year, I wanted to see if the bite has turned on yet at American.
I checked the weather reports and anticipated another windy day...
By: dzfish
Posted: 5/12/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to take the boat for a spin and try my luck at trout. I launched at russell's landing around 08:00 and headed for little american. I found an area close to the dock, and anchored off. Took a...
By: yankeemike
Posted: 5/12/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Took grandson & wife out Sat. morning till a little after noon . Fishing was great .
By: bruceka49
Posted: 5/18/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Got on the lake around 9am and began pulling the pop gear and pink wedding band around the south end of the lake. Hit a couple of rainbows 11 - 13". The wind was the enemy of the electric motor but we...
By: private0941xx
Posted: 5/24/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/23/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Andy and I started fishing around 1 pm and went to a little hidden dock near northwest adventure center and my first catch was a 14 in RB got 4 in the first 2 hours. Was a good day took my limit plus ...
By: fishinjerry2000
Posted: 10/15/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/13/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Went fishing for rainbows and was my best day ever...I used yellow power bait and 4 ft leader from Ft Lewis shore..caught and released 5 in all. 1 25in, 2 22in, 1 18in , 1 14in and smallest was about...
By: fishinjerry2000
Posted: 10/26/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/25/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Went fishing again at American Lake Ft Lewis side and caught 1 large Rainbow that measured 23 inches and 1 small that was about 11 inches..A young soldier was fishing along side of me and caught nothi...
