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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
watertemp-63 weather was cloudy hit the lake at 6:00am trolled with a wedding ring but no bites. put on some pop-gear and wedding ring and trolled finally hooked one going back to the launch at almos...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Went fishing on American lake starting again at 7am and found some more decent sized rockbass in the shallows. Found that casting the wedding ring to cover and letting it sink to bottom and slowly re...
By: kokaneeking08
Posted: 6/1/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took out my grandfather and a fishing buddy of mine on Friday. We got there at 6:30 and the fishing was on fire, just as it had been for the past 2 weeks. We landed out first koke in about 3 minutes...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
hit the lake at 6:00am. didn't get anything for about 20min then i found some schools hanging out and just as I saw some good sized fished fly by my finder wam got one, kokanee too. I'm new to lake ...
By: ReelFisher
Posted: 5/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 630 or so and saw maybe 6 other boaters on the lake but there was also a lot of people along the shore. I went trolling down and around the little American lake side with little...
By: samm3
Posted: 5/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Started trolling little American lake again. Caught a small trout and a rock bass before my dad caught this nice 17" smallmouth. Bringing it in noticed a second one the same size swimming with it (w...
By: kokaneeking08
Posted: 5/28/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to American Lake this morning at 6:30 and there were about a dozen boats or so on the water. As usual, by the time I got to the north end of the lake, there was nobody catching any fish. There s...
By: samm3
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/27/2008
Hot Spots: 3
Started out at the Little American side with my dad. Weather was overcast all day. The water was smooth as glass, very calm day. Rowing my inflatable/trolling the wedding ring we found a few perc...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got started about 6am and the fish were jumpin...saw some real big ones fly up....got a keeper trolling through the area where they were jumping using a wedding ring .....only fish of the day but we p...
By: MCM
Posted: 5/24/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at 5 AM, just before a bass tournament started. Calm water at about 60 degrees. Tried a few things but as always the wedding ring produced results for this lake (well, for my wife). She a...
By: ReelFisher
Posted: 5/16/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 1pm and even though there were a lot of people out today it was still nice to not have to wear a jacket while fishing. So I trolled for about 2 hours with my daughter and never...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 5/16/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/16/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the water at about 6:15am. Caught a couple small Trout near the boat launch. Trolled towards the Hospital with the rest of the folks and only got one other bite. I was trolling Dick Nites in C...
By: ReelFisher
Posted: 5/15/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Okay so I got out to the lake pretty early this morning around 6 just when the sun was rising and I noticed the fish were jumping and seemed to be feeding hard so I hit the water trolling with a mepps...
By: ReelFisher
Posted: 5/13/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2008
Hot Spots: 1
So we got to the lake around 5PM and started trolling out around Russel Landing (Ft. Lewis side). About 30 minutes went by and we started thinking it was going to be another slow trip but then it star...
By: eenakok
Posted: 5/13/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I went to American with my dad and son (Cole, 3). We got to the lake @ 6:30 and started trolling. We were using wedding rings behind a 4/0 chrome dodger. One rod had green the other one red. Right off...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I launched about 8AM from the WDFW boat launch. It wasn't too crowded, maybe a dozen trailers in the lot. Trolled straight out then around the south end. Noticed a lot of rainbows jumping in the area...
By: Rthr_B_Fishn
Posted: 5/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2008
Hot Spots: 2
On the water today at 800 or so. was Mixed bag but the wind was fierce i thought it was going to dump rain. the lake had probably 8 or 9 boats out when id got there, the guys with real motors were on ...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 5/7/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Three of us hit American after renting a boat out of Bill's Boathouse.
I caught 5 bows all on a wee dick nite in Copper. "E" switched to the same lure I had but went deeper and caught 2 nice fat ...
By: runway12
Posted: 5/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake just as the rain had started. Lots of hit but only one fish. We trolled wedding ring spinners tipped with night crawlers around the island and then the north-side in hopes of getting a...
By: eenakok
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 1
We hit American Lake this afternoon. We got there around 4:30 and fished till about 8:00. This was the first time fishing this lake from a boat so we did a lot of investigating. We were able to catch ...
By: conquest
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled around the island and by the VA Hospital trying to land some of the kokanee I heard were being caught. No luck today as it was raining and cold. I'll try again tomorrow.
I've fished this la...
By: Arimaguy
Posted: 4/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took a friend with me today to get another hook in the water. And still no luck. He did pull a tiny only out by the VA but we shook it off at the boat. That was within the first 5 min and no bites aft...
By: Arimaguy
Posted: 4/25/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Used the Southern launch cause the one near the VA is still ripped up. Didn't have any luck trolling around in front of the VA. only a few other boats out there and the water was like glass for the fi...
By: Awoods
Posted: 4/21/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/21/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well I went fishing down at Harry Todd Park today. I usually have success on this part of the lake, but today was a different story. No fish were caught by me or the four other people on the dock. I'...
By: leahcim_dahc
Posted: 4/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit American Lake around 9:30am. Wind was south, southwest at about 10mph, gusting maybe 15-20mph around noon. Water temperature averaged 46 degrees from the public boat launch just north of Camp Murr...