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By: Bilgewater
Posted: 2/7/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The sunny, calm Super Bowl Sunday brought out a number of boats. The one troller I talked with had the same result as me: Nothing. Did anyone catch anything in American today?
By: hlindsay
Posted: 2/8/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Sunny and warm, so I went out to see how well the down-riggers worked on the new boat. This is the fourth time out first two were breaking on the motors and third time seeing if the bow mount would pu...
By: marthalb
Posted: 2/8/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/8/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Started out at around 3:45 pm on the most southern part of the lake, the dock behind the housing area. Thought I'd get lucky with the sun out and the warm up we've been having. I used dough off the ...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 2/14/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/13/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day of fishing today we trolled the Northwest Bank about 3 to 4 hours with no luck marked a few fish on the north side. Weather was nice and calm for the morning. I did get the boat out though...
By: Toni
Posted: 2/21/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I met Glenn and Cami at the launch at 10am. This was the first time getting in a boat and out fishing for 2016. It was a first for testing my knee after total knee replacement. I was able to get in an...
By: Bilgewater
Posted: 2/23/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
No bites during 3 hours of trolling. Saw very, very few fish on sonar. It feels like there are not many fish in the lake right now. I don’t know if the other troller I saw had any action. Likewis...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 2/23/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/23/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Hit American today hoping to find some fish...arrived around 10 am and left around 2 pm. Not one single bite, had plenty of fish come up from the depths at my lines or dr ball showed up on the FF. M...
By: marthalb
Posted: 2/27/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/27/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Put in a good day's work on the lake shore today. Used Berkley's Gulp Garlic scented orange salmon eggs sandwiched between two green salmon eggs on a 1 1/2 to 2" leader with 2 or 3 split shots. Got ...
By: jimbolya
Posted: 3/7/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Dodged a series of rainstorms, putting in right when one was finishing about 2:15. Started at the launch in the SW corner, trolled all the way up around the island to the north end, looped and came ha...
By: marthalb
Posted: 3/9/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/8/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Went out for a nice day of shore fishing. Had to cast a bit further out than last time, and the fish were less active, but took home a nice 12" rainbow. I was floating Orange garlic eggs with a few ...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 3/12/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The kokanee were running about 45 ft to 60 ft deep. I got no takers there. The perch were in massive schools at the section of the lake I was fishing. I managed 2 17+ inch rainbows and 3 12 to 13 i...
By: Bilgewater
Posted: 3/16/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
No rain today. Overcast and a light northerly breeze in the morning. I flat-lined shallow, but got no bites in 3 1/2 hours. Noted 2 or 3 other trollers, including one fisherman who fishes American ...
By: bandseeker
Posted: 3/17/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/16/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Picked up three rainbows all around 9 inches on the very northern part of American Lake by the apartments. Had a few jumpers after a weak hatch going on. Picked up all fish 10 feet down the wire. S...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 3/20/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
A long morning of trolling the west and north side of the island. Fish were deep and had lockjaw. Had four rods out with pink cha cha rigs, guilded lilly, orange cha cha, and finally a cop car spoon. ...
By: Mr Fitten
Posted: 3/21/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for the first time this year lookin fir smallies. No luck there fishing all the spots I know. So there is a guy on the bank who reels in a nice big trout. He throws it back in while we are ta...
Posted: 3/27/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
tried off the bottom ,white and pink power eggs brought the only fish 11 in, tryed kastmaster,s spinners ,powerbait nothing,but great day on the water.
By: hlindsay
Posted: 3/29/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/29/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Got started fishing at around 12:00 and fished till 3:00. Went to the north end and trolled with the wind to the south. I marked a few fish around 30 to 40 FOW so I ran our 4 lines from 25 to 40 ft do...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 3/29/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American lake with a couple co-workers. Two of us were fishing and we each caught a limit of fish. Trolled the main body of the lake at 15 feet deep, with a rocky mountain dodger and pink hooc...
By: nickbell
Posted: 4/2/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/2/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Little action today. Showed up to the boathouse early, but the dock quickly got packed, so we decided to rent a boat. Fished mostly worms with a bit of powerbait, either dropping straight down or wi...
By: Bilgewater
Posted: 4/2/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled April 1 with no bites. Shallow and deep. Trolled March 31 also, had one fish to the boat before it shook loose. No other bites.
Why is it that reports about American Lake, between Janua...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 4/4/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got there zero dark thirty, hopped a ride in a buddies boat. We trolled various flashers, dodgers, pop gear, hoochies, flies, spinners. One drive bye in 2 1/2 hours. Ended up catching our our limits d...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 4/7/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7:30 to noon. No deeper than 25 down on the wire. Green seemed to get more fish with Toni's Green Ice getting 3 of the 5 we came home with. Nice size to the planters. Great day to be on th...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/11/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/11/2016
Hot Spots: 2
My second outing of the year was to American Lake 4-11-16. All equipment was in working order. Well except for that annoying oil warning beep. To bad they don’t have recalls for outboards.
The mornin...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Hitched a ride on my buddies boat again since my pontoon is down and out. We started Still fishing first thing in the morning to no avail. So we switched back to our gold spoons and started trolling. ...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/18/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Well hit American lake today with my 20 yr old son and had a blast. We arrived at 10:00 am and headed to the north end of the lake and started fishing. Got a few RB's right off the bat and was good ...
