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St. Clair Lake Report
Thurston County, WA

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02/01/2014
41° - 45°
Trolling
Rainbow Trout
Rainbow
Cloudy
Floating Minnow
Afternoon
41° - 45°
02/01/2014
1
1371

Decided to take my little porta-bote out on this lake for the first time. Weather was overcast with a few sun breaks. Met up with a fellow fisherman I had met at Long Lake a couple of weeks ago and invited him to join me to try some trolling. We trolled for about two hours, never had a strike. Got a good drenching as we were getting ready to head back to the boat launch, a cold might end up being the only thing I "catch"! Well, I'll try again maybe in March, unless someone else posts a good report sooner.


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schu7498
2/1/2014 11:25:00 PM
Hey bob good to hear you got out to do some fishing! Been work work work for me!
flyfisherguy
2/1/2014 11:34:00 PM
Hi Alicia! Yeah I know what you mean, work has been insane for me too, but I had to get out and try a little fishing today. Hope you and Danny can join me soon, would love to get you guys out with me on my boat once the fish start cooperating!
Malottguy
2/2/2014 12:23:00 PM
Great report. I was curious if there was much shore access on the lake?
flyfisherguy
2/2/2014 7:59:00 PM
Not much Malottguy, as far as I can tell it looks like most of the shoreline is private property. There is a decent boat launch on one side and a much steeper more primitive one on the other side of the road to the lake. Everywhere else seemed to pretty much be private, so I would say that you probably need to have a boat if you intend to fish this lake.
Dan360
2/8/2014 2:56:00 PM
The boat launch access is pretty good compared to most local lakes. Probably about 100 yards of shoreline to fish. You can also park up by the bridge and mountain-goat your way down to the bank below. Its a good bottleneck to fish if there isn't too much boat traffic. The access road to the launch is on a peninsula and there is a small access area across the street from the boat launch parking area. The water drops off quickly there and i haven't had much luck fishing on that side.

A friend and I went out on St. Clair last weekend and trolled SLOW using green wedding ring long-lined with 1/8 oz sinker clipped on a 3-way swivel to get the bait down. Tipped the hook with 1 1/2 inch of crawler. Caught one 11 inch rainbow and a 7 or 8 inch brown. We were the only ones who caught anything that we saw.
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