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By: Mikeel1987
Posted: 6/9/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit American Lake at around 6 this morning in search of some smallies. Started with the dropshot and never put it down. Didnt catch a smallmouth but caught a whole bunch of rock bass. I caught 18 a...
By: Racer
Posted: 6/6/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I went to the lake today hoping to have alittle better luck with the koks. I got there about 6:30am, alittle later that normal. The bed just felt pretty good today.
I started out with a chartruese...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 6/2/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/2/2012
Hot Spots: 1
On the water at 0515 and caught this 16", 1lb 6oz beauty at 9' between the VA and the north end of Silcox Island at 0600. Lots of marks on the FF, but no more takers. Don't look for the wedding ring i...
By: Slammin8er
Posted: 6/2/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/2/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Fished American with my 8yr old grand son this morning for a couple of hours. Tried everything in the boat short of sittin on the spark plug. Had several drive buy’s but only one rainbow stuck. Marked...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 6/1/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to American Lake. Caught 8 smallies. All in 4 to 8 ft of water. Got a couple 2's, a 3-2, and a nice 4-6, which is pictured. And needless to say, we caught countless rock bass. Sorry for the poor ...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/29/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/28/2012
Hot Spots: 1
I went aboard Mike Carey’s from Washingtonlakes.com boat with Nate Treat to catch the famous elusive American Lake kokanee. Rseas and his wife came with their boat, too. He caught the biggest fish.....
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/28/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/28/2012
Hot Spots: 1
OK, I am tired from a day of hardcore trolling, but it’s a good tired. Met Toni and Nate at 5am to troll for kokanee. Rseas and his wife Karen were there as well in the Lund to help us with filming an...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/28/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
MY wife's first cast in 60' of water as I pulled up to get stuff out and ready was a three pound or so Rainbow. She caught it with a craw colored crankbait. She did not want to keep the fish so the ...
By: ravdakot
Posted: 5/28/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Was another tough day due to the wind!! Put a couple smallies in the kayak, but nothing impressive. Had my boy in front slaying the rockbass on a little beatle spin. He must have caught 50+. All fish ...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 5/25/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 0500, fished from the VA hospital northeast and back. I tried to stay in 70' to 80' running lines at 60', 40' and 15', and just under the surface. Deep were sling blades and kok-a-nuts, gr...
By: ravdakot
Posted: 5/24/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Was an ok day on the water. I wasn't able to fish the spots I had planned due to the wind. It's no fun fighting with it when bass fishing from a kayak. Hit a few sheltered shorelines without much luck...
By: Trouttrakr
Posted: 5/21/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with my girlfriend and daughter on Sunday. Nasty day, but we were up for it. I wanted to make sure everything on my boat was working right 'cause we are heading up to Fish Lake in Chelan Co...
By: Chumknuckle
Posted: 5/21/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got out later than I was hoping, hit the water at 10am. Trolled for 3 hours for Kokanee while dodging jerk skiers and then anchored up by the VA for bottom fishing. Caught nothing but a sun burn.
By: Fatbasstard
Posted: 5/21/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I was on the water at 6am, it was overcast, and dry (for a little while) surface temp was 59.5. Things were good, not as good when the rain started, but still put some fish in the boat. I got a couple...
By: Bob R
Posted: 5/20/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Left the launch at 7:15 or so. I believe we are hitting it late but with the long drive(an hour or more) and the late opening of the lakewood city launch(7:00) an earlier day was not in the cards. I w...
By: JM73
Posted: 5/20/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished American yesterday for Koke's but had no success. Got a little bit of a late start and didn't get fishing until around 8am. I saw one kokanee landed all day with our boat going 0 for 1. Fish...
By: robert4681
Posted: 5/19/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2012
Hot Spots: 1
We Started trolling at 7:30AM. It was cool and windy but the Rainbows were biting using spinner and worms. Tried the downrigger with small dodger and a small pink hoochie and also tried a wedding ring...
By: Mike@Bills
Posted: 5/17/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Started out from the boathouse at 5:30 this morning with nothing biting until 6:30 and then it was hot. From 6:30 to 7:30 I had 7 nice Kokes on and 5 in the boat. The smallest one weighed 1.25lbs an...
By: Racer
Posted: 5/15/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I got onto the lake at 5:30am. The weather was great with no wind and flat water. I set up to troll along the Va side using Pink dodger's with pink mini hootchie on one pole and light green spatterbac...
By: ScreamingEagle
Posted: 5/14/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished American Lake for Kokanee with Mike@Bills. Started at sunrise and managed 3 koks. Caught and released our limit of trout, but we only keep Kokanee. Koks caught trolling between 55-62ft down ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/14/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Got to fish American today with Gringo Pescador and rseas. I was really looking forward to the trip after having a pretty hard weekend of work. My one day off so make the most of it!
We launched and ...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 5/14/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6 to 10, 6 RBT. This is a late and short report, I had trouble the other night posting and am trying it again but don't want to spend an hour again.
By: ScreamingEagle
Posted: 5/12/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Started late this morning and was on the water by 0610. Trolled in front of the VA at 60 ft deep, 30 -40ft behind the boat. 50 minute limit today, had one downrigger at 62ft and the other at 54ft. ...
By: robert4681
Posted: 5/12/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Two of us got on the water in my Smokercraft Osprey by 7:30AM and we each had our 5 fish limit by 11:00AM. They were Rainbows in the 12 to 14 inch range. We trolled with spinner and worm and in spite ...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/11/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2012
Hot Spots: 3
To get there at daybreak one should make sure the alarm is set for am not pm! I only woke up a half hour late. I was out fishing about 6am and finished at 9:30am. My plan was to go toward the veterans...