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By: SCLipRipper
Posted: 5/3/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the water, chasing smallmouth. While I didn't catch huge numbers of fish, I did catch some really good quality fish.
Fished all over the lake, and caught fish in a few different are...
Posted: 6/18/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/18/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Went to American Lake this morning around 7:00am little cool and over cast with light wind started fishing the north end of the lake caught 2 little 1.5lb smallmouth and 10 rock bass on drop shot stic...
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...
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...
By: Dan360
Posted: 8/16/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Had a decent day on American Lake. Didn't give it 5 stars because we had to really work for our fish today, but the work was worth it as we ended up getting some really nice fish. Started the day ea...
By: rflores13
Posted: 8/21/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I hit the water about 7:15 this morning. He started with a rooster tail spinner and I used a 4" black and white shad colored grub, on a yellow and red eyed jig hook. We started around the i...
By: Dan360
Posted: 8/7/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got a chance to fish American Lake for smallmouth and it was a blast. I haven't really fished for bass on this lake but figured they would be following summer patterns that I see on other lakes. Fou...
By: KevinS
Posted: 4/2/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got out for the first time this year. Was rainy at time and windy. Watched a couple of bass follow my fluke and one took a bite at the tail just a few feet from the boat. At least I caught ...
By: Mr Fitten
Posted: 5/25/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out at the crack of dawn to do some fitten fir smallies. Did well around docks and beds. Throwin slow sinking bates. Nice warm day.
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/30/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I hit the water late hoping to test out the new kicker on some jokes. What a ZOO! Launched and started to head out and quickly figured it was not the day to test the waters, so I headed to the south e...
By: 502300
Posted: 9/8/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late report I was really busy. Went to American in search for some SMB. Started with a wacky rig tried a crank bait. Lots of weeds. Fished deeper docks. Caught about 3 SMB and about 4 ro...
By: No_Regerts
Posted: 6/4/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 0800 to 1045, mostly along the east bank. Caught a dozen fish, all around 12 to 14 inches. A few came on a red and chartreuse jerkbait, the rest on a drop shot (KVD dream shot). Hard to...
By: No_Regerts
Posted: 10/18/2023
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/15/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Saw a favorable weather report, so I got out on American Lake to fish for smallmouth. Got out at 7:30 and I saw some healthy vegetation, so I started out trying to cover water with crankbaits, jerkba...
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: scott shankland
Posted: 6/5/2010
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well this is a 2 parter so stay with me.
Yesterda afterwork I hit up Americn lake by the big condimed dock on north Ft. Lewis fished for little over a hr on the bottom with worms for perch. It was ...
By: cinatikid
Posted: 5/24/2009
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This was our first time fishing at American Lake. We are big time Pan fishermen. American Lake is a really nice lake. We were looking for Perch, Rock Bass, and Blue Gill. We were not lucky with th...
By: cinatikid
Posted: 5/30/2009
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We started out at Tanawax on Friday night. We did good. We caught some Perch and bullhead Catfish (about 15 fish). Saturday we headed back to American Lake. We boated Rockbass, Perch, and about tw...
By: personfly18
Posted: 7/3/2009
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2009
Hot Spots: 3
First time going to American, and let me tell you this lake is awesome. First of all, the boat ramp is really nice. It is run very efficiantly. Second of all, this lake is very clear. It would be ...
By: Lock3056
Posted: 7/11/2009
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with the wife and kids, had a great time catching Rock Bass, as soon as I would get my worm to the bottom I would have another. All consitant size kept about 20, heard they are a little grass...
By: personfly18
Posted: 8/8/2009
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/8/2009
Hot Spots: 3
Great day. Perch are really starting to bite, along with the usual Rock Bass. We probably caught about 60 fish, 45 Rock Bass, 14 Perch, and 1 Bluegill. All you have to do was pull up next to a poin...
By: Toni
Posted: 7/1/2014
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2014
Hot Spots: 1
American Lake 6-30-14
Well you know the saying about best laid plans...that is what happened on June 30th when I planned on taking my grandkids and Kim (pinkpole) fishing at American Lake. When we ...
By: Mikeel1987
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to american lake to catch my son some fish for his 4th birthday so I figured lets try some rock bass on american lake. Got there around noon and fished till around 4. We caught 10 to 15 roc...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 7/25/2012
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Little American from 7 to 10 this AM wanted some perch but only found a few rock bass. Jigs tipped with worm from short to 25ft or so. Nice day to be on the water.
By: nickbell
Posted: 7/17/2010
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty fun day. Caught at least 40 rock bass, some very good sizes, and a couple of decent perch. I just used a couple of split shots and a worm, dropping it to the bottom. Also fished a plastic gr...
By: nickbell
Posted: 7/24/2010
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day. Caught at least 50 rock bass with worms, fishing on the bottom. I was mostly using a chartreuse jig head with a nightcrawler on the end, caught many small ones and a huge rockbass by letti...
