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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/24/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled a flasher with a red triple teaser and maggots right in front of the marina 20 feet down with 6 ounces of lead. Limited in about an hour.
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished American lake on the Dock by the NAC, caught 3 bass in the shallows on power tube and power lizard. Saw a lot of fish movement but the bass were super spooky. I did however spot the biggest ...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/18/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2002
Hot Spots: 0
RENTED A BOAT FROM BILLS BOAT HOUSE SAT.. WENT TO THE CULVERT ON THE SO. END OF THE LAKE. DID REAL GOOD USING MAGGOTS AND EGGS. ANCHOR AND CHUM ,USE LIGHT LINE, LIGHT WEIGHT SINKER, AND A #12 EGG HO...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/9/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2002
Hot Spots: 0
The freshly planted rainbows are hitting on top right now. It took me 45 minutes to get my old wooden boat to the launch because of all the interruptions from fish insisting on being impaled by the fl...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Today I loaded the boat and was on the water at about 8:30am. Within the first hour I had landed a 3lb 10oz rainbow while still fishing in the culvert area using worm egg combo. After another 30 minut...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Tied to the log booms by shoreline today and caught one 12 incher, put my red wedding ring back on to troll and put worm on it. I let it dangle in the water while I pulled up my anchor, all of a sudde...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I have caught my limit every day and have thrown many back. sizes kept range from 10" to 16" and the largest weighing 1lb 11oz. I have fished every day and June and always go away with my 5 fish. I fi...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/25/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake at 3:00pm the weather was sunny with a light breeze. Trolled a Mepps spinner around the big island and caught two 12" rainbows. Had Several other hits but didn't hook them. Only had ...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/15/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/15/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Only one tug all morning and we missed it. We are new to the area so were probably doing it wrong, but the other boat had no hits today either. We were mainly looking for trout or panfish in the sou...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/8/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/8/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Tried American for the first time this year. No one was catching much but weather was fair. We caught 2 bow's that afternoon in Little American on yellow triple teaser. One was 2 1/2 pounds however, m...
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American
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...
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American
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...
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American
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...
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American
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.
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/6/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 10/6/2001
Hot Spots: 0
The lake is now so low the aqua lift won't work. 10 am and not too much wind so the kayak will do for the two of us. We anchor at 30' up in the north end and drop our lines. All the water skier's...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/21/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/21/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished American Lake from a dock after work. 5th cast and the drag starts singing on my ultralight. 4 jumps and a few minutes later I was able to lip the 17" Smallmouth and take the Roostertail out of...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/12/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2001
Hot Spots: 0
My father-in-law and I fished American last Thursday. I tried trolling a beaded hook with a worm, flatfish, and a triple teaser with no luck, except for a couple of perch. He used a ford fender with...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/11/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing with my friend Josh in his boat at around 6:ooam in little American, nothing. But when we moved out into the bigger area I started getting bites left and right. I was using pop gear wi...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/7/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with my family on Saturday the 7th. About 1 in the afternoon got a nice strike which turn out to be an 8 lb 14 oz Rainbow 27 and 1 half inches long. The nice people at Bills boathouse weight it...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/26/2001
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Started trolling with pop gear and a worm in little American, nothing.But when I went into the bigger area around the floating logs I got two 11 inchers. nothing special but that is all I got for the ...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/24/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/24/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 8am-1pm came up empty. Weather rainy water temp. 66 deg. I saw two 3lbs bass semi curious. Broke off a 3lbs bass (darn log) Trolled for trout for an hour or so no takers.
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/23/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/23/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Well, don't know what has happened, but ever since Father's Day, this side of the lake ~ from shore~ has died out. before that I was limiting almost every day, now went back out to my usual spot by ...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/10/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/10/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at 5 am. the water was flat. no wind or rain. I was trolling for kokanee between the islands when a series of waves came from nowhere. A max. of ten waves that looked and felt like a large b...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/4/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2001
Hot Spots: 0
We got out on the water at about 9:30am it was a gloomy day with a couple of sun breaks. We rented a boat from Bill's and headed strait across the lake toward the V.A. hospital trolling with our t...
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American
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/9/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water around 6am and trolled with wedding rings and kastmaster spoons. I was looking for the kokanee, but no luck. Caught a lot of 8-10 inch rainbows, mostly along the shorelines. In the...
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