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Posted: 5/6/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
just spent the last 4 days at american lake and didnt catch a thing had a couple bites but thats it even tried from a boat with no success
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Hey All, Myself and RicknTK fished American Lake with 2 wounded warriors, Frank and Lee, on Saturday. I think both vets caught limits of trout, though they threw some of the smaller ones back. I'...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/7/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Caught using just a worm with a bottom floating rigging.
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Posted: 3/8/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had the day off and hadn't planned anything. Went to my buddy johnny's to check out his new deck. Next thing you know we have the boat hooked up and we are headed for American lake. Got on the water a...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/8/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Threw the kitchen sink at the fish today. Only 1 small trout that had net marks on it's side. Hit copper and red head needle fish. weather was outstanding but chill in the shade. Fished the noth end. ...
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By: Bo
Posted: 4/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
trolled all over the place, with all the good stuff. Just not the right stuff. Fish are still tight lipped... Oh well, thats fishing :) See you all on the lake next time.
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Posted: 4/13/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy 1SG invited me to go fishing on his boat at American Lake on Thursday evening. We were expecting bad weather and it was actually really nice out there. Water was calm and no other boats on ...
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By: Bo
Posted: 4/23/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/23/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Fishing has picked up for trout, still hard to hit a koke. Dick nites worked for me, w/ a tiny bit of worm on the hook. Had to make sure that it didn't hinder the swimming action of the lure. Trolled ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
me and my dad launched the boat around 6 am trolled for two hrs using green red and rainbow power bait then still fished in numerous spots throught the lake not on bite all day not sure what was wrong...
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Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the 4th of July about 1400 trying my luck on the lake. Wasn't thinking I was going to do that great due to all the Jet Skies and Inner tubers. Was there for 40 mins and limited out quick...
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By: Racer
Posted: 7/10/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had a pretty good day on the water. I started out looking for the nearly absent kokanee but wound up with 3 rainbow, 1 cutthroat, and one 17" triploid. I started out with one hootchie pink and white ...
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By: jimdixon
Posted: 7/14/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at 6a.m. trolled from boat launch to VA and back. Threw everything in the tackle box at them and nothing.
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Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2012
Hot Spots: 3
We caught 2 rainbows used downriggers and wedding rings great day watched air show from the lake .
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Posted: 7/4/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I tried some fishing at American Lake, on base, at Shoreline Park, for a couple of hours. It was sunny, with a little wind. The fishing calendar rated it a best day. I got there at about noon. The...
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By: gfakkema
Posted: 6/21/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Today was my second ever trip to american. Not as productive as the last time I was there, but we were still able to catch a few in the short time there. We were using fire tiger needlefish in little ...
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By: Dodger11
Posted: 6/24/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Got on the water late, but not a bad day. Fished with my kids in the boat and my son had one on before I had my line in. I snagged a couple and the daughter pulled one in. She had several strikes on t...
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Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got out to the lake at 6:15am was doing some shore fishing wasn't getting much action at all. Left the WDFW fishing area around 9:15 and went down the road to fish from the docks at Harry Todd park. I...
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By: gfakkema
Posted: 6/13/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2012
Hot Spots: 3
This was my first trip to American and what a day it was. I had a little trouble finding the public launch, but after driving around the sharp turn before the gravel road, I saw a very welcome sign. L...
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Posted: 6/13/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/13/2012
Hot Spots: 2
I did something today I have not done in a long time, I fished off the dock instead of taking the boat out. I have noticed that the trout have been hitting anything green so since I was actually targ...
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Posted: 6/14/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Yesterday about 6:30 pm i went out to american lake to do some fly fishing on my float tube. I was on the military side of the lake. When i put in there was not much activity above the water. When i g...
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By: sgmdwk
Posted: 11/8/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to The Fort Lewis fishing dock on American Lake early this morning. Spent three hours Lake catching nothing. Then, in 45 minutes, starting at 10 a.m., had a monster trout break my line, caught ...
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Posted: 11/8/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/8/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Another great day of fishing..Caught 2 24 inch trout around 7 am and then one smaller 17 inch about 10 am. I did notice that last thursday I caught 2 trout at 8 am which would be the same time as we j...
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By: sgmdwk
Posted: 11/14/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/14/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Well, there was a break in the rain forecast, so I drove up to Fort Lewis to try my luck again at the American Lake fishing dock. I had a late start and didn't get a line in the water until 9:30. I wa...
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Posted: 11/15/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water around 6 am and did not get a bite until 745 am..only caught 1 17 incher and then went to check to see if I could find sgmdwk but did not find him found another man named Nick who I spok...
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Posted: 11/23/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Did not get a bite after 4 hours so went to check on others fishing and they also had no luck. Bad day at catching but good day fishing.
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