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I would like to say that I caught these fish, but I can't. Mr KAZ and his 2 boys had a great day. We launched our boats around 5:15 and headed right towards the island and bill's boathouse. I didn't get my first fish till 07:00 am. I was marking at 30 and 40 ft, but nothing was hitting. I was trolling between the launch and the island. It was around 60 ft deep, and I had was at 30 and 40 ft. I tried everything, but couldn't get a hit. Everytime Mr KAZ went by his youngest boy, around 5 or 6 would yell over and let me know how many fish they had. He was excited and having fun. So we decided to head towards bill's boathouse, and I changed back to all pink. As soon as we entered the gauntlet, something hit my pole with a vengeance, I have never seen that kind of hit on my downrigger pole. I started reeling in and I knew it was big. About half way in he came off, my heart sank, what a pig. Then as we passed the island on our left, I got bite after bite, They were all trout, lost 3 while trying to dip them and put 1 in the boat. So we stayed on that side of the island till around 9:45 and decided to call it a day. I marked good fish on both sides of the island but couldn't get a koke to bite, only trout. Needless to say, I could hear his youngest boy all morning, and I found out why when we loaded our boats and compared our fish. I was outfished by a long shot. Mr KAZ was a happy man, taking his 2 boys out and having a great time. The oldest boy caught the biggest koke, 16 inches. WOW what a pig. Mr KAZ asked how my smoker was working, I replied, you tell me tomorrow at work LOL
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Fished American Lake the last four days in a row. The lake is full of rainbows, they are hitting
red wedding rings behind pop gear tipped with worm. Took a limit each day in less than a
hour. It's not like that every day but I always come away with five. May have to try kokanee
fishing I hear they are not that easy to catch.
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Started fishing around 10:30, we started fishing off of the VA. Caught a small trout in the first 15 minutes then nothing for the next hour. Caught another small trout about 11:30. We were fishing small dodgers with hoochies and wedding rings in red, green, and yellow using corn and Berkley white maggots. One downrigger line and one surface line, both trout were caught on the downrigger at 25-30ft. Right at noon we had one very large fish on the surface line that we lost and shortly after that we had a large Kokanee on the downrigger line that put up a good fight and eventually pulled the hook off the line. I hooked the Kokanee on a green Mack's Cha Cha kokanee hoochie. Really disappointed in the poor knot that came from the factory on the Cha Cha hoochie (it was the first time using the lure). I will have to retie the hooks from now on. We tried a couple other areas on the lake but the boat traffic and jet skis were pretty bad so we called it a day around 2:45. Overall we had fun and hooked into some good fish, I will come back to this lake again for sure.
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Fished from 6:00 to 10:00, from the state launch to the VA to the north end. top to 40 ft 4 lines, Hoochies, wiggle hoochie, wedding rings, crippulre, rooster tails, sling blades, doggers. Had 2 or 3 that didnt get to the boat and put 2 12" RBT in the Boat. Pink wedding ring did the best then the yellow wiggle hoochie. Corn and Bloody tuna or anise.
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Went out to american lake to catch my son some fish for his 4th birthday so I figured lets try some rock bass on american lake. Got there around noon and fished till around 4. We caught 10 to 15 rock bass on crankbaits and. Dropshots. Then I caught a nice 2 to 3 pound smallmouth bass draging a dropshot in front of docks in about 20 feet of water. Then I found a smallmouth bass on a bed next to a dock and caught it on a flippin jig.
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Took my Girlfriend out fishing for her first time ever catching fish went to American lake it was cloudy day and some sun she got a little sun burnt. we used pink wedding ring and maggots fished from noon till 6 caught 5 kok's between the two of us from 11 1/2 to 13 1/2 and fat... she had a great time she sad she would go again
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I wanted to fish american lake for kokes, so I talked Mr KAZ into fishing out of his nice 18 ft alumaweld. Showed up at the launch around 05:30 with donuts and mochas. As I was walking to the boat Kokanee slayer pulled up and what a nice set up he has also. We headed out the launch and turned right towards bill's boat house. I had a drive by and Mr KAZ put one in the boat. Trolled around the island and was on the va side and Mr KAZ was knocking them dead. He was stacking at 40' and 50' and I was at 30' He had some kind of triangle pink dodger with a home made pink hoochi, and I had a Dick Nite pink splatter dodger with pink splatter squiddy thang. It must have been the motion of the dodger, Mr KAZ was done pretty quickly. I even dropped to 40' with him, and when we trolled thru the fish, he was the one with the bites.I even did the kokanee dance to better my odds, and that didn't work. Plus Mr KAZ was laughing pretty hard too. So I stole his dodger and went back to 40' and put the remaining fish in the boat. I did lose one nice koke right behind the boat. I also changed from garlic scent back to anise/krill and that worked too. We finished the day with 2 nice trout and 8 kokes. I cleaned the fish and dropped them in the smoker this morning. In the picture, the kokes are on the left and 4 trout fillets on the right. Yum Yum
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Got out on lake about 8:30? Started with downrigger, sling blade, 12" line to wedding ring and worm. I got one on the side side of the main island about 10am. It was drizzly, but not too cold. A lot of boats started showing up all over the lake.
About an hour later after trolling a several depths up to 50 feet, nothing so I change to the sling blade and pink hootchie with pink gulp maggots. Nada...
Went back to the first rig and made it to the south section. Nothing. I only noticed a couple fish holding here. Saw two jump.
Headed to the boat house and pulled a yellow black spotted flatfish behind a 000 silver dodger and trolled from the marina on the south end back toward Bills BH. Nada.
Changed up again to first rig but put on a pink gulp worm on the wedding ring in about 70' water down 30' trolling north from Bills. Pow! nice Koke. Marked the spot, swing back around and from 1pm to 3pm got my other 4 fish.
Weather web fish time showed it should have been a morning bite, but it took off once I got tuned in. Troll speed almost every time was 2.4-2.8. Seemed like I was zooming by most boats, but in talking to a lot of guys, most were not having any luck. Even Bills dock fisherguys.
Had a very tasty dinner. Ate 4 smaller fish and smoke the bigger fish. I'll get back out a couple more time for 2 more limits so I can smoke these critters. 4 cups brown sugar 3/4 non-iodized salt; Dry coat the fillets; put in fridge for 4-5 hours; lightly rinse; put on trays to let air dry 2 hours; put in pre-warmed smoker; add one pan apple chips; check at 4 hours; vac pack and they are awesome!
Happy fishing. Hope to see ya there.
God Bless these United States of America.
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2 person limit same depth as every one else , same speed , same kinda gear , 9 koks and 1 bow lost a few threw a few back few nibbles . Lots of boats on the lake .
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Boat is back in the water after completing motor maintenance and a much need cleaning and wash over the Memorial Day weekend.
Fished both SAT and SUN on American with both days producing well.
I ended up only fishing for a few hours as the density of traffic has increased dramatically. We all get busy in the boat as fish start coming in or maneuvering for another pass, but as a reminder, please keep a vigilant eye out for others..I had a few close calls that left me wondering...!!.......now that my public service announcement is over, I will get to the good stuff!
Marked lots of closely banded schools from the north part of Silcox Island, west to the North Park Launch, to the VA and the southern tip of Silcox. Depths ranged from 20-50 feet on both days.
SUN: Early launch-0630. Cloudy, light rain and mist, winds out of the north-perfect! Surface water temp 60-63 degrees.
Forgot my scented corn and had to rely solely on maggots or a bare hook.
First fish was the Trout that slammed a yellow and orange blended hootchie less than 10 minutes into my first run. Second two full size Kokes were on a blue and reddish Macks hootchie. So I ended up with three keepers in the boat and a few lost.
All picked up on a UV style dodger, maggots at 20-40 feet of water, 1.0-1.6 MPH.
The bite was definitely on as I saw a lot of landing nets in the water and a flotilla of fishing boats working near the VA!
Hope this helps!
Nitrosteve
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