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Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my brother started out about 07:30 am trying to catch kokanee fish. But after several hours and only one trout. It got boring. Then when we found where the trout were at, we stayed in that area...
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By: Quotient
Posted: 4/26/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Bill's dock 4 hours. caught 1 10- 11 " trout, 1 6' perch.3 fish for 4,-5 anglers. 3 trailers at the DNR launch.
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By: LJTPerry
Posted: 4/27/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2016
Hot Spots: 1
My wife and I hit the dock in shoreline park. There was a couple on the other side knocking them dead. They caught one after another, landing 9 in about an hour. We didn't find out what bait they were...
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Posted: 4/29/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2016
Hot Spots: 2
The 2 perch are fat with eggs. They are the first I caught this year. I am going to lay off the perch for a few weeks till they are done spawning.
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Posted: 4/29/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I finally got into a few kokanee on American. Caught 3 and long released 3. All were about 12 inches. All caught between 9 and 17 feet down the wire. Used pink wedding rings tipped with corn or be...
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By: ilikefish
Posted: 5/1/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Had a good time trolling gold spoons around in the morning. First two fish were Kokanee , but they were small' maybe 10 in, so we let them go. The gold spoon thing worked until about nine'ish then the...
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By: Onmygame
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the launch with my two sons just a bit after 6:00 a.m. and was trolling twenty minute later west of Silcox along the VA hospital. All three of us have two rod endorsements, but I ran just o...
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By: ilikefish
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Started later, 0830 lines in. No bites on the gold spoons so switched to the slingblade and hoochie with smile blade and a little corn. Hooked 5 or 6 trout and one small Kokanee. All fish caught abou...
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Posted: 5/6/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Went to Russell Landing to take my boat out. It was a bit rough and my first mate doesn't like rough water so we decided to fish from shore. There is a small fishing dock just south of Russell Landi...
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Posted: 5/8/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Up at 6 this morning. That is late for me. After a good nights sleep and as I haven't gone fishing for a while, my adventure begins. After stopping at McD's for coffee and s/e burritos, I arrive at on...
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By: Onmygame
Posted: 5/9/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My sons and I hit American this again this morning with the same set ups as last week - 2 downriggers down the wire at 20' pulling dodgers with wedding band spinners (red) tipped with a lone pink Gulp...
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By: tyeee
Posted: 5/13/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/13/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Got on the water around 8:30AM. Water was calm and the launch was not busy. I trolled 30' down with my rig about 25' foot back. I used a small dodger with a wedding band about 18" back from the dod...
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Posted: 5/16/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Recently returned back to WA after a two year Army assignment out of state. With the amazing warm weather that we had last week, I have been patiently waiting to get back on the water for Kokes. Star...
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By: Hunter757
Posted: 5/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/17/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Well got the itch to catch some fish so hooked up the boat and headed to American for some fun! Hit the lake around 11am and headed over to north end to start fishing. Lines in two rods one pink and...
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By: Hunter757
Posted: 5/30/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well wanted to fish so hooked up the boat and headed to American for some afternoon fish time. Trolled all over had a few take down right away but they were RB. We fished for another three hours and...
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Posted: 5/30/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American Lake to try our luck at trolling for some Kokes. We were using a wedding ring tipped with corn. We caught 5 rainbows with no luck of landing a Kokanee. We had one next to the boat but...
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By: stittsy
Posted: 6/1/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2016
Hot Spots: 1
My fishing buddy took me to a spot on American Lake where he had been catching a few rainbows this past month. He chided me for bringing along my bass pole rather than my other pole I use for trout. ...
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By: Toni
Posted: 6/7/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/5/2016
Hot Spots: 2
I met Glenn and Cami at the launch just after 5am. It was supposed to get up to the mid 90’s. The idea was to get our limits and get done before the heat. Well the fish didn’t get the message. Gle...
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By: Onmygame
Posted: 6/7/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My youngest son and I trolled American Lake between 6:00 and 10:00 a.m. and managed 4 Rainbow all about 12" and 5 Kokanee - though one was released boat side due to small size, likely last year's fry ...
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By: Hunter757
Posted: 6/9/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Well decided that today might be the last day to get out and fish due to rain heading our way. Hit up American lake around 10 am and fished till 3 pm. We arrived to the wind blowing steady and the ...
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By: Bay wolf
Posted: 6/12/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/12/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Started out at 7 a.m. Fished in front of the VA hospital in 80 ft of water. Had kokes on at 30ft all morning. Using small red bead spinner on one rod and pink micro hoochi on the other. Gulp maggot ti...
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By: rflores13
Posted: 6/12/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/12/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I decided to take my daughter out for a couple of hours and try out the new rod and reel. I was pleasantly surprised to see the lake was calm after a nice Sunday afternoon. We started over by the Mili...
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By: Bay wolf
Posted: 6/15/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Thought I would try and get a couple of hours in before the rain set in again. Got to the lake at 7 and headed out in my little dingy. I was running a small red bead spinner on one rod and a pink mic...
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Posted: 6/15/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the water today. Hardly anyone out on the Lake and the fish were biting. I was trolling a kokanee killer flatfish. About 22' on the down riggers . I released 4 rainbows and one Kokanee. I...
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Posted: 6/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Another great day on the lake. From first light to about 10:00 the fishing was great. I was using a pink hoochie about 7 inches from my pink dodger. I was about 23' on the downriggers. Lost maybe four...
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