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By: ScreamingEagle
Posted: 5/12/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2011
Hot Spots: 2
Headed out this morning at 6 a.m. with Mike (the Kokanee Deer Hunter). Had and excellent time making a loop around the island and finished early enough to make it to work on time. Caught 7 Kokanee a...
By: rockjiggr
Posted: 5/11/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up American in the late afternoon/early evening since the clouds decided to clear away for a bit. Found the perch scattered in the 30-45ft range along the north shore. Got 8 pretty decent ones wit...
By: elrika
Posted: 5/10/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I started fishing for Kokanee at 0930 and caught a limit by 1030. The fish were all in the 12 to 13 inch range. I tried out two hand made spinners (green & black beads with a nickel blade, and amber ...
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: Toni
Posted: 5/8/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This is a 2 day report.
5-7 I went fishing with Cami and Glen in their boat.
We started fishing around 8:30 in the morning and Glen had his first fish on within 5 minutes and it was hot for a short ...
By: f1sh1nf00l
Posted: 5/8/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Was supposed to fish Spanaway with Arniejl, but I screwed those plans up. So he came over to American and met me, and we went out to see what the smallies were doin. Started the day throwin 1/2 oz ble...
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: booboo98498
Posted: 5/3/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, what a day. Got on the lake at about 7:30 or 8 AM. I had my limit by 9:30. 4 kokanee and 1 rainbow. I was using pink hoochies and green hoochies tipped with corn behind sling blade dodgers. ...
By: crinklefish
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day out on American Lake. Got to the lake around 10AM and fished until 3:30PM. There were tons of people out on the lake when we arrived. Trolled the North side of the big island and then ...
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: Ocktane
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing around 1400. Got bit and had a trout follow the drop shot early on but then we spent a long 5 hours with nothing. Dropshot, football heads, shakey heads even crankbaits and nothin......
By: Toni
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I set the alarm early and when it went off I had a bad headache so I took medication and went back to bed. After a couple of hours I got up took one more pill to see if that would make the headache g...
By: Keith
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to hit American by myself because the kid is with his mom this weekend and the other fishing buddy works nights so he was sleeping. Caught a mix bag 11 fish total 2 10 inch perch 6 trout 12 to...
By: Ocktane
Posted: 4/30/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit American for the trial run of MaxumCory's boat now equipped with downriggers. Spent most of the afternoon-evening workin out the kinks of his boat and learning how to use the gear (those release ...
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: Toni
Posted: 4/24/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the lake a half hour earlier (7:30am) and I had to stay an hour (11am) later in order to obtain my 5 fish limit. The weather was cloudy, sprinkling, and with a slight wind. What a difference...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/24/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was a real adventure. Tried different methods. Bait stealing was a pain. Biting was very light. Fish were in the top of the water column. The big ones were not hitting.
By: rockjiggr
Posted: 4/23/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Did the daybreak thing at American today and had a pretty good time on the water despite not catching any bass again. The bass skunk is strong on American for me this spring. Caught a limit of those f...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/23/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Got up at 5am but through multiple things happening didn't get on the water to 8am. Off water before 10am. LIMIT with Wannafish A Lures and Dee Diamond flasher or Bahama Mamma dodger.
One lure is new...
By: arniejl
Posted: 4/22/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started at daylight this morning just in case the wind decided to be a pill. Hit a few docks for 1/2 an hour or so then headed for the dock that I lost the big one at yesterday. First cast in the sam...
By: arniejl
Posted: 4/21/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Trusted the weather report of winds to 6-8mph. Put in on American around 10:30 or so. Wind was howling. Found some promising looking docks, second dock fished hooked up with a smallie. Fish came righ...
By: elrika
Posted: 4/21/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The wife said she wanted to serve kokanee for Easter dinner, and that is all it took to get me out on the water! I fished Tuesday and today, limiting both days. Tuesday I started about 10:00AM, fish...
By: Borderline_11
Posted: 4/20/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 3 Kokanee in the morning then it shut down till about 3pm and caught 2 more Kokanee and 1 rainbow. My fishing buddy caught 5 of them and I ended up with 1 and lost 2 others.
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: 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 ...