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By: bellboysekiu
Posted: 1/30/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
didnt do any fishing. just wanted to see how other anglers were fairing today. went over to the north boat ramp and talked with some guys. they said down by little american using flys they caught and ...
By: Mainelygone
Posted: 2/7/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to try American a little early due to terminal cabin fever. WINDY but found a slot where the Bows were hiding and caught my limit in about three hours.
By: davidsongh
Posted: 2/24/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a couple hours on American Lake with my daughter in tow. The weather was nice: sunny, mid-40's, slight breeze. We tried a new spot, mainly because it offered some play area for my daughter. I...
By: snake7676
Posted: 11/18/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I am a man of my word! The last time I went to American Lake, I hooked a hawg and lost it. I said I would be back to get it. I arrived on the lake at just a little past 10 a.m. The wind was blowing h...
By: booboo98498
Posted: 11/3/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The day started slow so I put a red dodger and orange wedding ring on one pole. Baited with corn and caught 3 little kokanee. I was crossing the lake to the east side when I caught this triploid tro...
By: Boxermom
Posted: 10/17/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the weekend in a cabin on the JBLM end of American Lake. Got up early Saturday morning and went down to the fishing dock near the MWR Adventure Center on base. One of my weekend fishing companio...
By: Boxermom
Posted: 10/18/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
So, evidently I'm not as educated as much as others in identifying types of fish. This is what we caught this weekend off the dock on the JBLM side of American Lake. Someone on the dock with us told u...
By: Boxermom
Posted: 10/18/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the weekend at American Lake on the JBLM side of the lake. One of our fishing companions caught this big one on the first cast of the morning on Saturday, at about 7:50am. We were on the fishing...
By: nickbell
Posted: 10/9/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to american lake in hopes of catching something decent. I fished with a small gold kastmaster. Got many hookups, though I only landed one which was, as always, a dink. I don't know what it is ...
By: robert4681
Posted: 5/8/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water about 9:00am. The surface water temp was 51 degrees. Fished till 1:30pm
trolling ford fenders and strung on night crawlers with one ounce of weight. This usually gets us the limit in...
By: medicburd
Posted: 4/17/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Decided it was time to get my newly remolded 12' aluminum boat out on the lake yesterday. Headed over to the Boathouse and caught a little piglet of a trout. Just over a pound but still was great to...
By: spokey9
Posted: 5/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A couple buddies & i went down to the boathouse today (one of my buddies got a new rod for his birthday and needed to get it wet). I was actually expected some real slow fishing because the weather w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 0630. Air temp was roughly 40 degrees, skies were partly cloudy, wind from the NW around 5 MPH. Water temps started around 48 degrees and peaked at 53 degrees after noon.
Wan...
By: pkelleysr
Posted: 4/25/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing is therapy. I’ve heard other things but until Saturday, my first statement was only theory. My Lady has been having a bad time of it lately due to nearly 4 decades of past abuses and Friday wa...
By: spokey9
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the boathouse around 9am because dave (the owner) told me they were gonna let the fish out around 11am (6500 fish). so i tied up a perch 1/8 oz kastmaster and was playing around til the big ev...
By: spokey9
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got my spinners on saturday so i decided to go back down to bill's since i know the fish would've settled down and i'd actually have to do some fishing. I threw everything at'em and came up with 3 13 ...
By: ScreamingEagle
Posted: 4/19/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Rented a boat on Sunday and rowed from the island to the north. Used a watermelon flasher with a pink mini squid and tipped pink hooks with white gulp maggots. I wanted to fish away from the boat ho...
By: robert4681
Posted: 5/19/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2012
Hot Spots: 1
We Started trolling at 7:30AM. It was cool and windy but the Rainbows were biting using spinner and worms. Tried the downrigger with small dodger and a small pink hoochie and also tried a wedding ring...
By: Chumknuckle
Posted: 5/11/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Trolled around the islands and toward the south end for Kokanee with no luck so I anchored up on the far south end and immediately caught 2 nice Rainbows off the bottom, 14" was the largest. Wind pick...
By: robert4681
Posted: 5/12/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Two of us got on the water in my Smokercraft Osprey by 7:30AM and we each had our 5 fish limit by 11:00AM. They were Rainbows in the 12 to 14 inch range. We trolled with spinner and worm and in spite ...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 5/14/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6 to 10, 6 RBT. This is a late and short report, I had trouble the other night posting and am trying it again but don't want to spend an hour again.
By: robert4681
Posted: 4/15/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Started today at 9:00am trolling using different spoons and baits.
Fished this lake for many years and always have done well catching trout but not today. Not a single hit with two of us fishing.
Wa...
By: Bo
Posted: 4/29/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2012
Hot Spots: 3
I think I like this lake. This is still my first year here... feel like I gotta figure it out. Had to go to Olympia today, so I through the canoe in and hit it on the way back. Had an hour to try for ...
By: robert4681
Posted: 5/1/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2012
Hot Spots: 3
We Launched at the WDFW ramp at 8:00am. The weather was nasty with white caps but since we were there we went anyway. The surface water temp. was 55.5 degrees. Despite fighting the wind and occaisiona...
By: Mike@Bills
Posted: 4/21/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/21/2012
Hot Spots: 1
I didnt do much fishing because I was working but I saw well over 300 Rainbow trout caught today that were well over 14" some much bigger. American Lake was crazy today! At one point I counted over 3...
