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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/3/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with the family. Saw no fisherman, fish, or anything else at the lake. I guess it will get better in two weeks when it gets stocked. Pretty sad when you have to wait for a lake that big t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/2/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/2/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished on little American Lake today throwing spinners from the shoreline. Limited in less than two hours, 4 under 12" one at 26"! I think the lake was recently stocked. A lot of fish movement clos...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/11/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/11/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Prospects looking good for fishing season 2002! Bill's Boathouse on eastern side of American Lake is now raising 10,000 rainbows in net pens and will be released in April. Fort Lewis has 25,000 as wel...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/2/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/2/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day for a boat ride. Marked very few fish. Fished from top to bottom, all for not.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/19/2005
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Rating: 2
Fished: 3/19/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake about 9am went straight to the cove at the VA hospital , fish finder showed a few fish around the 7 to 15 foot range so I through a night crawler out under a bobber and drifted while ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/3/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Did some running around the lake and found most of the fish congregating in deeper holes. Nothing biting though. This was our third trip to American Lake where we have caught a few smaller fish in the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/9/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I didn't catch a thing again here. I will attest now that the fish are beginning to bite ever so slightly. I saw a guy pull in a 15 lb. rainbow trout and then his daughter caught a 12 in kokane...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/10/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/10/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fly Fished the North Ft Lewis side of American Lake from a float tube, started at 0800 near the camp grounds and worked my way around to Ft Lewis Recreation dock with a Prince Nymph on slow sink line ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/19/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Talked to the boat house manager and he said that the lake will be stocked with 25000 trout on 23 Apr 05. Spoke with two gentlemen coming off the lake that had 4 nice keaper size rainbows. I asked t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/18/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/18/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Put in at the state launch by the National Guard base, at approx 0630. Picked up two Rainbows (10" and 11") and lost a third, flatlining a silver Dick Nite. All three were hit on the other side of the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/24/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my friend took our sons(10 year olds) out to Bill's. We rented the big pontoon boat and was told to head over to Johnsons Landing.
We got there and there were only two other boats around. We d...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/23/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 8/23/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Took the kids out to Bill's for the first time, they loved the vintage boats and the lunker pool, but no fish today. Only a few were caught off the dock and they were small. Most of the fish caught we...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/20/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 6:30 a.m. at the public launch. Trolled over to the airplane hanger and had 4 kokes by 8:30. Nice, thick fish. Biggest went 18". I was trolling with lead core line, down 2 colors. I was us...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/12/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/12/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Started out at 5:30 a.m. Started with a gang troll and an apex kokanee killer. Went down 3 colors out from the boat launch in 60 feet of water. Tipped my rig with white shoepeg corn. Trolled out past ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/14/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/14/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Well MR. Sanchez and TODD, If you didn't just slaughter the trout in the colvert or of the log boom ,you would have to be a very sorry fisherman. MY buddy and I caught well over 100 trout and released...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/8/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/8/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Hello my fellow fisherman!
Its your local on American:)
I arrived at BILLS BOAT HOUSE at 10:30 a.m.
My friend Chia and I rented a Row boat cuz no boat and motor
available.It sux! anyways We went o...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/30/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Hurry while it is hot my fellow fisherman,
This lake is wonderful, The Rainbows are so abundant.
Well it was an EASY day of fishing.
My friend Todd and myself went out to the culvert about 6:00p.m....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/15/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 1/15/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Flyfisherguy must have gone to a different lake. I got in 1.5 hours on Wednesday afternoon resulting in 3 fish, largest 18 inches. Today was a bit slower, took 5 hours to catch 5 fish. I don't use a s...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/19/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 1/19/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at WDFW boat launch around 10:00 a.m. First thing, my partner rigged up an egg siker set up(18" leader) with orange, chartruese, and white power eggs and hooked into a fat 14" rainbow about 30...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/19/2003
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Rating: 1
Fished: 1/19/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Did I fish the same American Lake that Wayne reported on about a week ago??? I took my son there yesterday and we trolled for about 3 hours. We never touched a fish, or even SAW one on our sonar! T...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/13/2003
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Rating: 2
Fished: 1/13/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake at about 11am, very foggy couldn't see but five feet, went over to the marina and still-fished about 50 yards out. Used a bobber with rainbow powerbait about 8 feet down. One nibble al...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/9/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 1/9/2003
Hot Spots: 0
American Lake is off to another great year. I spent about 2 hours on the lake today trolling a plug, and the rainbows just won't stay off! I'd get at least one strike each pass I make. Must be a littl...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/3/2005
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Rating: 2
Fished: 2/3/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Tried American fo first time this year,three other boats out I don't know how they did . Tried bass zeroed but they are there saw several all laying right on top of wood. caught one 4 lb. rainbow rele...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/11/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 2/11/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing for the first time with my three year old. Caught nothing, and saw no signs of fish which is a first for me here. Could be because my son thought he would try to hit the fish we didn't se...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/21/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 2/21/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Well tried American again. Again no dice on this trip. Didn't see anyone catch anything but a lot of guys in boats fishing the lake about 50m off shore. The water was very clear which is nice. Will tr...
