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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...
By: Chumknuckle
Posted: 5/11/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Trolled around the islands and toward the south end for Kokanee with no luck so I anchored up on the far south end and immediately caught 2 nice Rainbows off the bottom, 14" was the largest. Wind pick...
By: ravdakot
Posted: 5/10/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Was a slow Day of Kok fishing. I didn't hit the water until 0930 or later, so that was partially to be expected. Not as many fish out there this year, but they are BIG. caught and released a bunch of ...
By: ScreamingEagle
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Fished American Lake again, started North of Silcox Island. Used uv pink dodgers with uv pink mini shrimp, and a homemade pink wedding ring. Started before sunrise flatlining 80ft behind the boat. ...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I went fishing with old girl (my motor) which I may call old smokey now. Once again zero kokanee but lots of trout. I fished 6:30 to 10am and it was a chilly morning but the sun came out and about 9:...
By: Toni
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I went fishing with Glen and Cami for kokanee. Glen hooked one we never seen but it was pulling really hard on his little craponee rod. I think he should post the video. Slammin8er gave us some of his...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/7/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Caught using just a worm with a bottom floating rigging.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Hey All,
Myself and RicknTK fished American Lake with 2 wounded warriors, Frank and Lee, on Saturday. I think both vets caught limits of trout, though they threw some of the smaller ones back. I'...
By: narrows11
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished American Sunday morning with my grandpa and one of his buddies caught one real nice 16 inch Koke and 3 or 4 rainbows. There was never a point where fish were biting constantly it was pretty spr...
Posted: 5/6/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
just spent the last 4 days at american lake and didnt catch a thing had a couple bites but thats it even tried from a boat with no success
By: ScreamingEagle
Posted: 5/6/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished North of Silcox Island at sunrise, using uv dodgers, uv pink mini-shrimp, and pink homemade wedding rings. Tipped the hooks with shoepeg corn and pink gulp maggots. Caught the first four flat...
By: jdlunk
Posted: 5/5/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, I don't know about anyone else but for me I have to say fishing was tough! The crappy weather this past week has definately had an impact on fishing for sure. I fished hard all day from 0530-1330...
By: robert4681
Posted: 5/1/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2012
Hot Spots: 3
We Launched at the WDFW ramp at 8:00am. The weather was nasty with white caps but since we were there we went anyway. The surface water temp. was 55.5 degrees. Despite fighting the wind and occaisiona...
By: Bo
Posted: 4/29/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2012
Hot Spots: 3
I think I like this lake. This is still my first year here... feel like I gotta figure it out. Had to go to Olympia today, so I through the canoe in and hit it on the way back. Had an hour to try for ...
By: Dodger11
Posted: 4/29/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
First day out this year. I like to go in the AM normally, but other plans got in the way. Caught one RT and one Kokanee. The Koke was probably 16" and a good fighter for the kids to reel in. We don't ...