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Shoecraft Fishing Reports

Shoecraft
By: Fishermom14
Posted: 7/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water about 8am, trolled a bit. Nothing hit the lines. Decided to try still fishing on the east side of the lake, but out in deeper water (20-24 ft). Three poles in the water on the bottom a...
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Shoecraft
By: gypsyb
Posted: 6/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had some time before a birthday party, so I loaded up my boat and headed to the lake. I had caught 5 there a few days before, so decided to give it a shot. After trolling to the right of boat launch ...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/25/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Good day, cool and not much wind. Caught a FAT 13.5" trout from the dock spinning an orange and black spotted F-4 Helin Flatfish (always performs well at Shoecraft and elsewhere). Then took out the ...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/22/2007
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Rating: 5
Fished: 9/1/2006
Hot Spots: 0
2006 Shoecraft Lake 5 lbs
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/24/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/23/2006
Hot Spots: 0
We arrived at Lake Shoecraft around 6:15AM and trolled around in our 10 ft. Livingston. In the 4 1/2 hrs we were there, there were only 3 other boats out. Around 7:20AM I caught my first fish ever! ...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/8/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to Shoecraft after work and it was a great day on the water. Other than constant wind it was a good day. Water temp was around 72 degrees and the fish either werent active or had already ...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/25/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Great day today, so headed out to Shoecraft after work and hit up my favorite dock where about 5 big bass are hanging out. I couldnt get the big one to bite but I did hook and land this 4lb largemout...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/1/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/31/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Read that fish are being taken so I took my new license out for a trial run, it didn't work. Fish sipping small black bugs, hatching. One float tuber had a nice fatty. Headed for the Pot Holes now..
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/27/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 3/26/2006
Hot Spots: 0
went out again cought our limit in about an hour. My fisher buddy caught two lunkers Truthfully they were much larger than the one i caught yesterday but I dont have use of the scale sorry no weight o...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/26/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 3/25/2006
Hot Spots: 0
went out saturday for about an hour and a half. we limited out! had to make this fishing trip short, I caught a huge lunker 2.26lbs
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/11/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing at 4 PM, left at 7 PM. Trolled or drifted, caught 1 crappie, 4 perch and 1 trout, all small. Between the wind and the wave action from the water skiers found it difficult to keep the l...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/6/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/5/2005
Hot Spots: 0
a lot of small bass and perch to be caught in this lake. Boat launch is really shallow but lake is fishing friendly. started fishing docks and structure at 10am and caught several small perch and bas...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/23/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Perfect evening on the water. 4 bass in 2 hours. two 1 pounders, a 4 pounder, and a 5+ pounder as it was getting dark. Used light brown 4 inch senko weightless. No flake or glitt. 4 pounder came from ...
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Shoecraft
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/27/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/26/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son Matt for some evening bass fishing. We fished from 5pm to 6:30 before he called "uncle". He's not hard core and I wasn't going to force the issue. We had no strikes, pretty dead. I think t...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/21/2005
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2005
Hot Spots: 0
I heard there were bass in this lake so thought I would give it a shot with my 3 year old daughter. The boat ramp, if you can call it that isn't much to speak of. However, while we decided not to laun...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2004
Hot Spots: 0
I am an Alaskan commercial fisherman 18, so I'm young, but know a lot bout fishin'. the other day I went out on shoecraft to try an reel in some of the monstrous bass I've spotted there...if you know ...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/12/2003
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Rating: 2
Fished: 7/12/2003
Hot Spots: 0
I went fishing in Lake Shoecraft for the first time in my new boat with my new pole ( 7" rhino ) and I trolled with a pink fly and caught a 7' bow within 4 minutes!! I threw it back and then I hooked ...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/3/2002
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I went to shoecraft where 'I' usually get skunked. After a couple of hours with not even a bite, The wind started to pick up as it is prone to do there. So we were cutting back across to ...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/21/2001
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/21/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Started out by slow trolling until my friend and I noticed an older gentleman just zippin' along and killin' em. We cranked the motor up to 4 and trolled the area south of the channel that leads to Go...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/1/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/1/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with my son today. He hooked, landed, and released a nice 16" Rainbow fishing a Wooly Bugger. Water is real clear, and pretty cold still.
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/25/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 3/25/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Out with a couple of friends late that Saturday to see if the fishing in the lake would be as good this year as last year. We were out about 2 hours with only nibbles and thinking that we were going t...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/20/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2000
Hot Spots: 0
I have fished this lake for a number of years with rather good results. At times have taken my grandson along and we both have done well. The public launch is very shallow and leads into the lake prop...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/3/1999
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at Lake Shoecraft at around 1100am. I grew up out here and haven't been back in about 10 years, it was just like I remembered. The boat launch must have a trick to it that I couldn't figure ...
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Shoecraft
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/16/1999
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/16/1999
Hot Spots: 0
This is the second time in two weeks we have been to this lake and done poorly. I read the stocking report that it was planted with 16" trout. We trolled close to surface with flies and small spoons...
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