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By: HPenne66
Posted: 6/9/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/8/2019
Hot Spots: 1
Being primarily a saltwater angler, I am less experienced with freshwater fishing, but the smell of a beautiful rainbow trout on the smoker always tempts me to bring out the wedding rings and night cr...
By: Oldcoastie7
Posted: 6/20/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/19/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I have been fishing American lake since 2006, and have never seen a Spring like this one. Been fishing since early May. Until Yesterday nothing, nada, zilch. A few bass but that's it. I have tried...
By: Toni
Posted: 10/12/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/12/2019
Hot Spots: 0
American Lake 10-12-19
My son and I went to the lake at 8am and left about 12pm. Trolled from the far east end to the veterans hospital. The downriggers were from 5 to 40 on the cable. My son caugh...
By: Widgeonmangh
Posted: 3/30/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2021
Hot Spots: 0
First trip of 2021! Got out to the lake late because it was kind of a shakedown trip where you have to get everything out of storage and assemble it again. Water and weather were perfect and the fis...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 4/5/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/29/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to head over to American lake for some trout fishing action. I purchased some new arrow flash dodgers and they did not disappoint. We found limits from the surface down to 15 feet. We trolled ...
By: Widgeonmangh
Posted: 4/8/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/6/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake at 12:30 in the afternoon and the conditions were perfect. Trout were very willing. Used the same set up as last week with a Dick Nite dodger and a kokanee sized NTO Scent Spinner 2....
By: mikerobertd
Posted: 4/9/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/9/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at 9am and limited by 11:30am. Wedding rings, green and orange trolling at 2 knots at 10 feet deep.
By: Toni
Posted: 4/12/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/11/2021
Hot Spots: 1
My son and I started fishing at 8:30 and quit at 12:30. With the breeze it was cold most of the day but the sun did help as it was sunny. Tried to keep it on us until the fish started to bite.
The ...
By: No_Regerts
Posted: 4/17/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 8:00 and trolled at 15-20 feet on the wire in 50-60 feet of water. We were using silver/green and silver/pink sling blades in front of wedding rings/worm of the same color scheme. Green s...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/19/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2021
Hot Spots: 1
My son and I started fishing at 8am. The water temperature was 54 degrees. It was going to be a hot day at close to 80. We finished around noon. It was slow for us compared to last week.
I went from ...
By: Widgeonmangh
Posted: 4/21/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/19/2021
Hot Spots: 0
The sun was shinning and it was a perfect day to head out to American Lake again. I am trying to find the elusive Kokanee but have yet to encounter any, but definitely not disappointed in the trout! ...
By: Widgeonmangh
Posted: 4/29/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Took my good friend Steve out for a great day of trout fishing! He used the surface rod and I used the downrigger trying to find the kokanee. Since the trout were on top he had most of the action. I n...
By: Widgeonmangh
Posted: 5/10/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2021
Hot Spots: 3
Went out for some more trout action at American. I spent the first half of the trip looking for Kokanee and chasing arches on the fish finder. Started going a bit deeper using the downrigger and se...
By: Oldcoastie7
Posted: 5/11/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2021
Hot Spots: 0
First day out on American Lake this year. Beautiful sunny day. Breezy north wind. out for about 1 1/2 hrs 10:30 to 12. Fished just south of Russell Landing off of my boat. anchored. Tightline fis...
By: James s Harris
Posted: 5/20/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Kind of behind the ball for posting report but that's part of growing up they say. First trout of the season and wonderful day out on the water. I caught it on my grandfather's handed down Shakespeare...
By: James s Harris
Posted: 6/16/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Here are some nice ?? ones for the smoker. I used my high school rod I made back in 1982 and performed better than my 200.oo rod.
By: Sharkbait123
Posted: 12/19/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/19/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Had a good morning with Sharkbait on American that I forgot to put in a few weeks back. I started at first light and fished around the VA area and around the island trying everything i had in my box w...
By: smokey34
Posted: 3/10/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/10/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Nice morning on American. only 2 trailers at the Tillicum launch at 7:30. Started trolling toward Silcox and immediately hit fish. Swing blade and hootchie with worm and corn, 20 ft down and 50 ft ba...
By: Toni
Posted: 3/25/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/25/2022
Hot Spots: 0
My hip had been hurting all week and with this being one of the best days to go fishing I told my son he should go. He sent me a text saying he was trolling 1mph with downriggers at 10 and 20 feet dow...
By: robrose77
Posted: 6/5/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
trolling with the usual method.....pop-gear with a wedding ring tipped with a bit of worm.....in 2 1/2 hours only two good bites. out of all the guys i talked to they didnt get anything either. Only...
By: Lock3056
Posted: 7/4/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Invited a friend to go fishing with me, They showed up an hour late. I forgot the battery for my trolling motor so I decided not to cast like I normally do because it was kind of windy and I didnt wan...
By: lilhavoc18
Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake around 5pm, north of Silcox via rowboat. Dropped a nightcrawler with a leader of about 10 inches and had small hits from that point on. I was only able to pull up some rockies but my fish...
By: spokey9
Posted: 7/23/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
went down to bill's boathouse round 5:30 am. i caught one rainbow an a couple decent sized perch, saw a few other perch and four rainbows caught by everyone else. used shrimp an egg on one pole and wo...
By: Arimaguy
Posted: 9/8/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to hit the lake at the last minute this morning, stopped at the little market just before the city park to grab some worms. Got to the launch at 8:15am it was raining and the water was around ...
By: fishermick
Posted: 3/17/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to hit American for the first time in years. Really it was the itch to try an unfamilliar lake w/ the new fishfinder. Finder did great, but we did not fair so well. Trolled toward the lg islan...
