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American Fishing Reports

American
By: Nitrosteve
Posted: 9/28/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted to make a brief write up on my experience today on American. Additionally, wanted to thank those who share their success on here! Launched at 0645 from Russell Landing, still dark, mist, ...
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American
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 9/24/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/24/2012
Hot Spots: 2
On the water at 0600 and baited by flashlight. Just as it got light enough to see, the DR went to 39' in 60+ water. Half way between the launch and Silcox, bam - a 15" koke! Re-set and doubled back an...
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American
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 9/18/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/18/2012
Hot Spots: 1
On the water at 0600 and almost got broadsided by a boat with an apparent sleeping driver! There were only two boats on the whole lake, him and me. Proceeded to loose the first koke that jumped about ...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/18/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with my brother today, we didn't start fishin until about 10. I figured with it being dead calm and sunny, the bite would be tough, and it was. We fished docks out to the 5 mile hr bouys an...
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American
By: jeretired
Posted: 9/17/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Unbelievable! Skirted the VA hospital for three hours with my neighbor in my Port-a-bote using night crawlers, perch-eyes, artificial baits, even the kitchen sink! We never even had a nibble all aft...
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American
By: Toni
Posted: 9/13/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I texted blurock (Brianna Bruce of Livin' Life Adventures) a couple of days ago to see if she wanted to fish American Lake with me, she said yes. I texted my boat or yours? She (sweetness) texted back...
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American
By: Toni
Posted: 8/30/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/30/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Praise the Lord, thank you Jesus. I went fishing at American Lake and was blessed! I didn’t get on the water until 7:20am. Why is it so hard to get up? There were only 2 rigs in the parking lot, a ra...
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American
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 8/24/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Kokanee are addicting!! When back to American to see if I could capture more of the enemy. 0600, DR at 38' in 63' of water straight out from the WDFW launch and the first victim fell. A 16", 1#8oz sil...
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American
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 8/22/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/22/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Launched at 0530 and set DR at 35' with holo silver dodger, Shasta Wiggle Hoochie in light green and shrimp oiled shoepeg and maggot. Set second pole with a Pink Lady planer at 30' with laser cut Wond...
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American
By: tacfisher1
Posted: 8/19/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My son got 9.9hp Evenrude at a yardsale a couple weeks ago so we wanter to try it.A friend had fixeds some leaks in his boat so we got together and all went out to try everything out and see if we co...
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American
By: jd39
Posted: 8/12/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
On the lake around 8:30, trolling was slow, one bite on the top line and that's it for 2 hours. Anchored up in 30ft of water to target perch and my buddy catches one right away, nice sized one too, 1...
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American
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.
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American
By: fisher2222
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2012
Hot Spots: 3
We caught 2 rainbows used downriggers and wedding rings great day watched air show from the lake .
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American
By: jimdixon
Posted: 7/14/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at 6a.m. trolled from boat launch to VA and back. Threw everything in the tackle box at them and nothing.
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American
By: Racer
Posted: 7/10/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had a pretty good day on the water. I started out looking for the nearly absent kokanee but wound up with 3 rainbow, 1 cutthroat, and one 17" triploid. I started out with one hootchie pink and white ...
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American
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 7/9/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/9/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Second boat on the water at 0450. The "plan" was to troll a flat line until I was in 60'+ of water and take temperature readings. Before reaching that depth, I hooked and landed a little 10" and thoug...
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American
By: Slacktime
Posted: 7/8/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from Harry Todd park off the dock and caught tons of rock bass they were everywhere !!! released them all !! Hooked a small mouth that was cruising the shallows but couldn't get him in. Maybe n...
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American
By: achmed2213
Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the 4th of July about 1400 trying my luck on the lake. Wasn't thinking I was going to do that great due to all the Jet Skies and Inner tubers. Was there for 40 mins and limited out quick...
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American
By: Slammin8er
Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
No Koks. The bite could be effected by the algal bloom and 4' of visibility. Probably caused by the high amount of fertilizer. But the weedless lawns are sure pretty all around the lake. . Don’t remem...
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American
By: fishtremble
Posted: 7/4/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I tried some fishing at American Lake, on base, at Shoreline Park, for a couple of hours. It was sunny, with a little wind. The fishing calendar rated it a best day. I got there at about noon. The...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/3/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We arrived at American at 09:00 and fished until 11:50. The primary we trolled was in front of Bill's Boathouse where we picked up 9 out of 10 fish. The largest was a bow at 14". We only picked up 1 K...
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American
By: StonedSpinner
Posted: 7/2/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 7:30 launched at the wdfw site. We were targeting smallmouth but didn't get any all day. I caught 5 small rock bass and a 9" rock bass thats pictured. My buddy scott caught 3 sm...
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American
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 6/27/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/27/2012
Hot Spots: 2
On the water at 0515 and located a very weak thermocline. Last week I ran a temperature survey at 20 foot intervals and most were in the low 60s down to 80'. Kept the downrigger in or just below the ...
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American
By: Slammin8er
Posted: 6/27/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/27/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Yes I am a glutton for punishment. Hit the water at first light. The bite started out slow and tapered off. Between 5:30 and 8:00 hooked multiple 12” trout and one 17” Kokanee. The keeper fell fo...
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American
By: fishchaser
Posted: 6/26/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Having read reports and watched the video on American Lake . I made the trek to the lake to give it a try I came prepared dodgers, hoochies, wedding rings, spoons, various baits , down rig...
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