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By: rickydbasser
Posted: 10/14/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American. Cold day on the water with a brisk wind. Water temp at 58. No smallies, but still catching big perch. I found big schools in 30 to 40 feet of water. Get on a school and you can catch...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 10/8/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Back to American. Caught 3 smallmouth. 2 in the pound range, and one chunky 2-11. All caught on a nosed hooked grub dragged in 23 to 30 feet of water. There was a guy fishing off his dock who watched ...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 10/5/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American Lake. Fished from 7:30 till 2:00. Only caught two smallmouth. A 1 lber and a nice 3-2. Both caught in deep water, the first at 23 ft and the big one at 28 ft., both dragging a footbal...
By: Ocktane
Posted: 12/18/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Figured I'd been striking out on the rivers so much in the last two months, might as well pull the boat out. Hit the lake about 8am, surface temp 45F and very little wind. Had a fairly steady perch ...
By: Ocktane
Posted: 12/31/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take the boat out one last time for 2011. I know I should be steelheadin since I'm probably leaving WA in a few months but I had the itch to go bassin' again! Spent most of the day findin...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 3/9/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American yesterday. Sunny with no wind. Water temp was 44 degrees. Fished every deep water smallmouth trick I know without a bite. Found small scattered schools of fish in 18 to 30 feet. Fishe...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 2/28/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American Lake. Fished from 11:00 till 3:00. The sun was warm, and the lake flat. Started out fishing a Carolina rig in 25 to 30 ft of water with a floating tube bait. As usual, got lots of per...
By: Fatbasstard
Posted: 5/21/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I was on the water at 6am, it was overcast, and dry (for a little while) surface temp was 59.5. Things were good, not as good when the rain started, but still put some fish in the boat. I got a couple...
By: ravdakot
Posted: 5/28/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Was another tough day due to the wind!! Put a couple smallies in the kayak, but nothing impressive. Had my boy in front slaying the rockbass on a little beatle spin. He must have caught 50+. All fish ...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/28/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
MY wife's first cast in 60' of water as I pulled up to get stuff out and ready was a three pound or so Rainbow. She caught it with a craw colored crankbait. She did not want to keep the fish so the ...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 6/1/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American Lake. Caught 8 smallies. All in 4 to 8 ft of water. Got a couple 2's, a 3-2, and a nice 4-6, which is pictured. And needless to say, we caught countless rock bass. Sorry for the poor ...
By: ravdakot
Posted: 5/24/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Was an ok day on the water. I wasn't able to fish the spots I had planned due to the wind. It's no fun fighting with it when bass fishing from a kayak. Hit a few sheltered shorelines without much luck...
By: Mikeel1987
Posted: 6/9/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit American Lake at around 6 this morning in search of some smallies. Started with the dropshot and never put it down. Didnt catch a smallmouth but caught a whole bunch of rock bass. I caught 18 a...
By: downtown98033
Posted: 6/15/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Boated several smallies in about 20' of water.
By: downtown98033
Posted: 6/15/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Boated a few nice smallies in 20' of water, learned alot from the best angler I know - JW. Thanks Jon!
By: StonedSpinner
Posted: 7/2/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 7:30 launched at the wdfw site. We were targeting smallmouth but didn't get any all day. I caught 5 small rock bass and a 9" rock bass thats pictured. My buddy scott caught 3 sm...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/18/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with my brother today, we didn't start fishin until about 10. I figured with it being dead calm and sunny, the bite would be tough, and it was. We fished docks out to the 5 mile hr bouys an...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My daughter and I went to American Lake we started fishing for trout because she likes to do that first. Then, she got bored, and we started bass fishing for a few hours. I caught three smallies. She ...
By: Fergie1321
Posted: 6/28/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Me and my little brother went up to American Lake and caught a couple of Rock Bass and Small Mouths. We fished at two different locations one off of a dock and the other was a bank. They were jumpin...
By: Perchripper
Posted: 8/12/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Found some nice perch but scattered and one pig on my perch rod 23" x 17" 7.25# on little hand scale
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 9/19/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Decided to go for quality rather than quantity. Forsook my favorite lake, Tapps and drove over to American Lake. It didn't let me down. I only caught 7, but four of them were 3 lbs or bigger, with the...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 9/26/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/26/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went back out to American Lake this morning. Was on the water by 8:30. This time I was wearing my new PFD. Water temp was 65 degrees, down 5 degrees from this time last week. Never hooked a smallmouth...
By: Mikeel1987
Posted: 1/6/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/4/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Went back to American Lake to try our luck on some SMB and the morning started off just like the last time. A ton of decent and huge RBT to be had we must of caught 20-25 of them. Then around 1130 w...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 1/26/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Though there was frost on the grass in the morning, by 11:00 the sun felt warm and the wind was calm. And I thought, what the heck. So I hooked up the boat and went to American Lake. I figured if I co...
By: Mikeel1987
Posted: 12/23/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/21/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Went to American Lake to try and catch some SMB but all we caught was Trout and 1 Kokkanee. Caught on all on a Drop shot with Berkley Minnow in various colors. Even caught 1 Cutthroat about 17 inche...
