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By: bassmasterderek
Posted: 2/1/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got a few things done to my boat so I wanted to test them out today! New planing fin on the yamaha 40hp 4-stroke made a huge difference! New FF works great! Finally broke in the new cabelas XMLTi d...
By: bassmasterderek
Posted: 2/19/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Perfect day to take advantage of the warmer weather. Hit American lake about 1030 a.m. Water temp was 40 when I got there and ended up reaching 43.5. Still tough day. Fish are still very hard to fi...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 5/17/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son, daughter, and I got on the lake around 830 and started fishing at about 9:00 and packed up at 330. We were just fishing the front of the docks using a tube. I landed 9 smallies and my son land...
By: SPARKY101
Posted: 5/29/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got some much needed time on the water for myself....Hit the lake from 5am-1pm..went on a bed search"thanx WileyX"seek and destroy.Found beds all over some with fish some without"rockbass usin...
By: Keith
Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well decided to go to American after work. Grabed the dog and actually got my wife to go for the first time. Started off in the north end of the lake and kept catching the little rock bass left and ri...
By: Lunkerbassman
Posted: 1/31/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
On the lake around noon. Hit my usuall spots for this time of the year using hand poured plastic baits on a drop shot. Caught this one in about 40ft of water. Nice end of january fish.
By: procaster
Posted: 2/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American lake for 1st time. Launched at public boat launch. I forgot the topo map I printed out so I mostly drove around checking out lake/bottom. I found two good humps once the water wa...
By: basschic
Posted: 3/2/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This was the first time we went to this lake. We were going for smallies, saw a couple decent ones but they were not interested in what we were offering. We did catch a nice rainbow trout (24 1/4", ...
By: james griffin
Posted: 3/5/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and i got on the lake about 730am and fished the two islands for about a hour. Nothing happening so we hit little american. Within the first 45 minutes i got my first smallie ever, 2lbs 12ozs....
By: james griffin
Posted: 3/19/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Kind of slow out there today but did get a 4# football smallie. Also got 1 decent bow, both fish released. Not a bad day on the water today. Good fishing is just right around the corner.
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to American on Sunday. The weather was not that great, but a big, fat smallmouth made up for it. It was wet and windy, but sticking out there in the weather yielded a 4lb. 11oz. smallmouth ca...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 5/17/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished American Lake on Thursday. Had a great time catching 3 big smallmouth, and hooking up with multiple fish schooling in the morning. Hal and I had a 5.25 Lb. Smallmouth, a 4.75 Smallmouth, and a ...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
OK, OK, I acknowledge that fact that do not know how to fish this lake. Everybody gets 4 and 5 star days, but I suck, totally. I have came to the conclusion that I am adequate, for a noob, fishing sh...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 5/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I went to American Lake this morning. Got there at 7am and left at 230pm. The parking lot was halfway full already but that's no big deal that's American Lake for you. We started in our usu...
By: Johnthefisherman
Posted: 5/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took the wife and daughter to the lake around 3, started catching as soon as we got to our spot. We were looking for smallmouth, daughter struck first, about 2.5 lbs(her new personnel best), then I go...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/20/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished here yesterday and caught two dinks and many rock bass, maybe 50.
Today started out on south side of lake fighting the wind but it was so warm. Had trouble keeping the boat anywhere near w...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 5/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took Steve out to American Lake today for some Smallmouth action.
Rainy, slightly windy, and overcast most of the day, with water temps high 50's to 60. Water was fairly clear.
The cold front s...
By: Ocktane
Posted: 5/27/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at 5am, trolling along the southern banks. Began the day using a purplish 3" tube jig. It nailed me a few rock bass but I kept getting hung up and lost a few jigheads. To prevent more ...
By: SCLipRipper
Posted: 12/14/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished most of the morning without much luck, was marking very few fish and realized it was because I was targeting a depth that was just a bit too shallow (35-45 ft). Moved to a different area and w...
By: bassman72
Posted: 12/19/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Still in search of that winter bass. Been out a few times now this winter and still have yet to land one. Figured I would throw on the rain gear and head out to American because I have not really fish...
By: SCLipRipper
Posted: 12/23/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/22/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Out hunting bronze backs again on Monday - with absolutely no luck. I did manage to catch double digit rainbow trout though - they were biting all over the lake, caught at least one at almost every s...
By: bass junkie
Posted: 3/4/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got to american around Noon , fished the main island for about an hour with jerkbaits and cranks no luck. Headed over to the bank where the VA hospital is located and within 20 minutes hooked into a ...
By: bassman72
Posted: 3/23/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/22/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Decided to try American after a failed trip to Spanaway last week. Headed out after church and got there about 1:30. Decided to try a little shallow water snice I found a cove area with water temps a...
By: Nitrobass8
Posted: 3/31/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake about 11:00 and fished to 6:00. We caught 8 smallmouth on reaction baits. The biggest smally went just under 4lbs. Also got a 5lb rainbow fishing for bass.. All were released back into...
By: bassman72
Posted: 4/21/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Had the day off and the wife wanted to go fishing after the kids got on the bus. She did not want to go far so we could make it home when the kids got out of school so we headed to American. Started o...
