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American Fishing Reports

By: arniejl
Posted: 4/21/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Trusted the weather report of winds to 6-8mph. Put in on American around 10:30 or so. Wind was howling. Found some promising looking docks, second dock fished hooked up with a smallie. Fish came righ...
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By: elrika
Posted: 4/21/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The wife said she wanted to serve kokanee for Easter dinner, and that is all it took to get me out on the water! I fished Tuesday and today, limiting both days. Tuesday I started about 10:00AM, fish...
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Posted: 4/20/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 3 Kokanee in the morning then it shut down till about 3pm and caught 2 more Kokanee and 1 rainbow. My fishing buddy caught 5 of them and I ended up with 1 and lost 2 others.
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Posted: 4/19/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Rented a boat on Sunday and rowed from the island to the north. Used a watermelon flasher with a pink mini squid and tipped pink hooks with white gulp maggots. I wanted to fish away from the boat ho...
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By: spokey9
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got my spinners on saturday so i decided to go back down to bill's since i know the fish would've settled down and i'd actually have to do some fishing. I threw everything at'em and came up with 3 13 ...
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By: spokey9
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the boathouse around 9am because dave (the owner) told me they were gonna let the fish out around 11am (6500 fish). so i tied up a perch 1/8 oz kastmaster and was playing around til the big ev...
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By: Toni
Posted: 4/17/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2011
Hot Spots: 1
I had to work today so I asked Kokanee_Slayer if I could get a seat from him on his boat 'cause he is a break of day guy! He picked me up from the North Park at 7 and I had my first bite within 5 min...
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Posted: 4/17/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on American Lake yesterday with a friend. Took my best Rod Stewart and rigged it up with my favortie Don Cheedlefish. My buddy's rod was Ted Dancin' all day because of take downs. Must have h...
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By: medicburd
Posted: 4/17/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Decided it was time to get my newly remolded 12' aluminum boat out on the lake yesterday. Headed over to the Boathouse and caught a little piglet of a trout. Just over a pound but still was great to...
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Posted: 4/16/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A friend of mine and I decided to take a late trip out to the lake to see if we could get some Kokanee. We ended up getting 5 fish. 4 good sized rainbows and a 12" Kokanee. Using just a weding ring...
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By: elrika
Posted: 4/14/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I launched the boat at 10:00AM, with a brisk south wind and cloudy sky. The water and air temperature were about the same, 47 degrees or so. Trolled a pink wedding ring baited with Gulp maggots behin...
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By: Toni
Posted: 4/9/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 2
The lake was 47 degrees and a little choppy at first. The wind I would say was breezy and at times windy making boat control hard. I was out with friends trying to show them how to get kokanee on Ame...
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By: rockjiggr
Posted: 4/9/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Did a daybreak, early morning trip to American. Water temp is still COLD- 48 degrees. Just a slight breeze from the SW this morning which made it much more tolerable than previous weekend. Did not fin...
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By: JM73
Posted: 4/5/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit American on Sunday, due to a fairly optimistic weather report, for a morning of fishing for Kokanee. Started on the south end of the island but didn't get our first take until the north end. Fis...
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By: rockjiggr
Posted: 4/2/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Did the drop shot thing at American today in the wind. Tough to keep the boat in position but did find many schools of perch in 50 to 75 feet. Caught a full dozen in the 10 inch range. A couple were a...
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By: Racer
Posted: 3/28/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I had the day off so I took two of my nephews out to American lake today. The weather wasn't to bad, just alittle windy later in the morning. We fished on the north side of Silcox mostly in about 70...
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By: JM73
Posted: 3/26/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The weather was too nice to stay home on Friday so I launched the boat on American for Koke's. Started at noon, ended at 4. Landed 4 and missed a few others. Spent a lot of time using the electron...
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By: Toni
Posted: 3/23/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/23/2011
Hot Spots: 2
First time out in the boat this year and I forgot the life jacket. Drat. But that was it, or maybe pliers. Motor had issues idling. It took me about an hour of running to get it to where it would ...
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Posted: 3/21/2011
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit American Sunday. Launched around 1100. Windy and cold, water Temp 44-46. Didn't think we would catch anything, I was throwing a white curly tail with white jig head, and the wife puts on a hot pin...
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Posted: 3/17/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to hit American for the first time in years. Really it was the itch to try an unfamilliar lake w/ the new fishfinder. Finder did great, but we did not fair so well. Trolled toward the lg islan...
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Posted: 3/13/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Woke up to steady rain....my son wouldn't get up to go fishin' with me....my fishin' buddy wouldn't answer his phone....but I had to get out on the water! So I headed out by myself, launched from the...
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By: JM73
Posted: 3/13/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Made it out to American yesterday due mostly to cabin fever. The weather was not good, windy and rainy with 42 degree water temps. Trolled all the usuall haunts with no success. Didn't mark many fi...
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Posted: 2/24/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a couple hours on American Lake with my daughter in tow. The weather was nice: sunny, mid-40's, slight breeze. We tried a new spot, mainly because it offered some play area for my daughter. I...
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Posted: 2/7/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to try American a little early due to terminal cabin fever. WINDY but found a slot where the Bows were hiding and caught my limit in about three hours.
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Posted: 1/30/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
didnt do any fishing. just wanted to see how other anglers were fairing today. went over to the north boat ramp and talked with some guys. they said down by little american using flys they caught and ...
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