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By: mofishes
Posted: 4/1/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
What a day on the lake! Went out with a buddy just after noon to test the waters for largemouth but after an hour nothing was happening so we decided to target planted rainbows. Tried trolling pop ge...
By: cohocrazy
Posted: 3/25/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/24/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I checked WDFW website and found the Lake Shoecraft was planted recently. With all the bad weather lately I was anxious to get out and do some fishing with my 6 year old son Miles. We started fishing ...
By: mitchard
Posted: 4/24/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/23/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Got out on the lake at around 5 pm. Mainly went out to run the motor a bit and get it good to go for opening weekend, but we managed to fit a couple hours of fishing in before the sun went behind the ...
By: Photobby
Posted: 3/11/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/9/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Early start, foggy and cold but nice and quite. Trolled for about an hour and a half, between myself and my buddy we got 3. TONS of chironomids coming off the water, so I think the fish were't all t...
By: Hawgs On
Posted: 7/11/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Shoecraft this morning for the first time in a long while. Ended up C&Ring about a dozen or so largemouth bass - these 2 were the biggest. Caught them all just doin what I do...rubber worms, li...
By: crimefrog
Posted: 6/29/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
On the water at 0530 and started catching fish right away. Came in at 0630 to get buddy. Stayed on the water until 0730. I kept 4 he kept 3. We threw back 10 or so total and lost a few others. Mo...
By: mitchard
Posted: 6/27/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/26/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Didn't really go out with any big hopes, as I was taking my boat out to make sure the motor repairs I did worked out. We decided to cast out some lines on the north end near the canal. A couple little...
By: crimefrog
Posted: 6/21/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I took my 8 and 3 year old boys out for two hours in the evening (6-8pm). Started with a 4/O dodger and pink hoochie with power bait 40 pulls back on one rod and red wedding ring, worms and medium sp...
By: crimefrog
Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2012
Hot Spots: 2
I have been fishing the lake most Fri - Sun mornings for past month or so. Normally from 0500 to 0730 or so. I fish two poles. Normally keep 3-5 fish with one or more greater than 14" (biggest was ...
By: tHrilleR
Posted: 4/27/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried to get into some bucket mouths today, no go. Crawled some jigs and grubs and fanned a slow spinner bait. Didn't have a whole lot of time, so gave up on the buckets and trolled a black rooster ta...
By: Photobby
Posted: 4/23/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/22/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Early start for my birthday. Met a buddy at the launch at 5:30, and he had a little 8" plant on about 100' out from the launch, he brought in another before we were half way down the lake. It slowed...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/3/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/3/2011
Hot Spots: 3
My skunk continues. Fished with my wife along (just for the boat ride) which was nice. It was a good day to be out, except this lake has way more waterskiers than I expected, and must all be home owne...
By: outfishin7
Posted: 4/30/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My uncle and I went to Shoecraft this morning for the opener. Yep, I know it's open year round, that's exactly why we went there.. My jaw dropped when we pulled into the parking lot at 715 and we we...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/24/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
On the water at around 8:00 a.m. Trolled all around the lake at various depths using pop gear and worms. Also fished off the bottom for a little while.
Not a signle bite/strike. Saw one fish jump.
O...
By: slabs
Posted: 4/14/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The boy and I hit it again today for the third time this week at 10am. Beautiful day got 8. Missed 47. we got another one close to 16" on the way back to the launch. They all hit hard but that one rea...
By: slabs
Posted: 4/9/2011
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got back out at 11am. with my 4 year old boy.He caught 3. and I got 1 . His last one was 16in. on a small frog pattern flat fish. This is Hunters first fish that he let the line out,hooked the fish t...
By: slabs
Posted: 4/8/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake at 9am. Still fished until 11 or so. The lake was like glass. Saw some risers along the east shoreline so I trolled it with a wedding ring and worm. Hit three fish on four passes. then...
By: Curt
Posted: 5/8/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I got to lake shoecraft just before 7 am. I fished until 11 am and caught two rainbows. The picture is the first one I caught. Shoecraft is one of my favorit lakes. I've only been skunked twice at th...
By: Bass Woody
Posted: 7/12/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
ATTENTION boat launch users...... I have fished at this lake maybe 10 times since i have owned a boat. my truck has been broken into 2 of those ten times!!! the last time they even sucked gas out of m...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 7/10/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Only managed 1 14" largemouth on a small jig this trip. Saw a giant cruising under a dock that had a large school of fry under it, I pulled back and tried everything I had tied on but she wasn't in th...
By: buzzbait
Posted: 6/17/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
never fished here before,dont know if i will again.justnot much to offer.it's small.could fish it all in half a day.Lots of long flats.found the fish in 5-8' of water out on these flats.got three to b...
By: hanapaa808
Posted: 6/12/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We had our 5 yr old niece come to visit us from hawaii so we decided to take her fishing. She love to fish and had never been fishing on a lake before so she was really excited. it was a very nice day...
By: Fishermom14
Posted: 5/21/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We started fishing about 9:30am and started trolling along the southwest side of the lake. We had numerous hits, but only got 1 small (8") trout. We were marking fish on the depthfinder, but they wer...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/17/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Tried it all....nothin?? Lake was fairly stained and temps were anywhere from 63-68.5 degrees. Fished cranks, worms, jigs, more cranks, worms, jigs, all over the lake, nothing..... Didn't stick around...
By: crappiekiller101
Posted: 4/11/2009
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well nothing, we had a few on but lost em'. Very shallow boat launch, you actually launch into a creek, I think its pretty cool! Using jigs under a bobber and that was about it.
Good Luck To All !
