# American Falls 2/10/06

**URL:** <https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/american-falls-2-10-06/76648>\
**Category:** Idaho Fishing General\
**Created:** [February 11, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/american-falls-2-10-06/76648 "2006-02-11T02:31:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![BrianID](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@BrianID](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/BrianID)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/american-falls-2-10-06/76648/1 "2006-02-11T02:31:02Z")

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I fished American Falls today from 2:15pm to 4:30 pm. I was at the same place I fished last Friday. It was windy (16-28mph at Pocatello Airport) which made it very cold [:(]. The wind coming off the open water made me cold enough that I kept my gloves on most of the time (I haven’t kept gloves on while fishing since I ice fished Island Park Res in 2004). I heard that it might be -1 tonight. I know that I won’t be going fishing before sunrise tomorrow if there is any wind (I don’t have a shelter). There is some open water about a mile from the dam. From what I could see the open water started about 3-4? miles from the dam. The ice in my holes was at least 5" and maybe 6" but I didn’t measure it.  
Fishing was rather slow. I only had 5 bites (may have had some that I didn’t see in the stiff wind). I iced 3 rainbows that were 17"-18.5". My friend caught one that measured just short of 20". I gave one to the other guys next to us (flygoddess, we released the rest[;)]). It had about 5 minnows/skeletons that were about 2"-5". I caught one of my fish after putting the tail half of a minnow on a tube jig. I’m not sure if the minnow was superior to night crawlers but it did catch one fish.  
I didn’t notice the other guys next to us catch a fish while we were there but they said that they lost one that was too big to fit through the hole 😲(they had an 8" auger).

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**Author:** ![wiperhunter2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3d9bf3/32.png) [@wiperhunter2](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/wiperhunter2)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/american-falls-2-10-06/76648/2 "2006-02-11T03:14:56Z")

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Sounds like conditions were a little tough today, I hope tomorrow the wind is not blowing as hard. It makes me wonder how big the fish are when someone tells me, they couldn’t get a fish threw an 8" hole. You sure fish AF a lot, is it your favorite lake or just the closer?

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**Author:** ![BrianID](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@BrianID](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/BrianID)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/american-falls-2-10-06/76648/3 "2006-02-14T23:52:15Z")

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American Falls has been my favorite place to fish since the 3rd of February. I get board fishing the same place time after time so I’ll probably spend more time fishing other places for the next couple months. I’ve just been trying to catch a big fish out of American Falls.  
From the way it sounded I would guess the fish they lost was in the 4-5lb range but for all I know it may have been much larger. As you probably know it can sometimes be hard getting a fat 18" fish out of a 10" hole.