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By: Ratherbefishing
Posted: 7/12/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I was supposed to go camping this weekend. For unmentioned reasons that didn't happen. Heard it rained a bit in the mountains so probably not the worst thing.
Any how go to the lake about 7:...
By: Ratherbefishing
Posted: 6/14/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Long time lurker, first time posting. Got to the lake about 7, put in the boat. Already a handful of people on the launch fishing. Hadn't been to this lake in a while. Started out trolling a night cra...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 5/6/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Woke up early, so I decided to go fish for an hour before work. Saw some guys catch fish from the boat launch last night so I was hoping for the same result. Casted as far as I could and didnt get any...
By: WazzuBaker
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Decided that I would spend a sunny evening fishing, so chose Shady as its close to my house and had just opened for the year. Immediately, I realized why this lake is a hassle. Shady has a public boat...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/1/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by opening day at Shady after work today. Saw a fair number of boats already trolling. I joined the people at the boat launch. Two caught thier limits and one gentleman was skunked. Spoke too ...
By: mcmillan0416
Posted: 7/29/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up shady for a few hours in the evening. Seems like the lake might be getting fished out. Saw one guy keep a four inch rainbow, if even that big. Told him it wasn't legal size and he should releas...
By: aloho5
Posted: 6/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Great day out on Shady today. Went out around 8 AM and stayed until around 11 AM. Conistent fish on the lines. My buddy was using a green wedding ring while I was using red one while trolling with jus...
By: duraboat
Posted: 6/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
fished shady for the opener yesterday man it was wet.we started at 5am trolling hot shots and that was killing emso we just started switching up and every thing caught fish.between the two of us i thi...
By: LOCOintheBrain
Posted: 6/1/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the opener this wet and rainy morning for about an hour and caught my limit in about 10min using orange power eggs w/ anis scent. I then swiched up to throwing hardware for the next 45 min, i...
By: JS
Posted: 9/23/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
stopped by the boat launch and caught this one right away. caught one more smaller one and left. nice quick adrenaline rush.
By: timcrothers
Posted: 6/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Showed up at the boat launch and was happy to see it was void of lawn chairs. My wife and three little kids pulled in and got started! Long story short, caught nice little rainbow after one hour. Few ...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/26/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Shady lake to try out my new fishfinder. Launched the float tube in around 7 pm. Caught a stocker when I was drifting with just a worm. Made one lap around the lake and didnt get anymore bites...
By: timcrothers
Posted: 6/25/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I am sitting at the boat launch as I type this from my phone. I only have about an hour to get my line in from 4 to 5 pm. No luck, but it's still fishing so it's good times! I have power bait on a 1/2...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from the boat launch from 6-7AM. Caught 2 right off the bat. No bites for the next 30 minutes. Caught the last 3 when it was almost time to get to work. 4 of the fish were cookie cutter 8 inche...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 10/15/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I was there for a couple of hours fishing off the boat luanch. Used power eggs the entire time without a single bite. The thought the lower fall temperatures would bring them in the shallower part of ...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/22/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I was at Shady Lake fishing for 4.5 hours. I used everything from Gulp eggs in (white, orange,green), Power eggs(chartreuse), Power Bait (Green,orange, yellow mix), lunker lotion, and Mike's chartreus...
By: trendkill196
Posted: 6/14/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out around noon with a friend who had never been fishing. He is 37 and has never been. I almost slapped him. Trolled with small pop gear with a wedding ring and these little things made by Berkel...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/8/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/8/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished off the boat launch for a couple of hours at Shady. I caught one 12 incher in 2.5 hours of fishing. I had one good hit that caused my rod to turn into a 3/4 u shape. The line was tight and the ...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 6/6/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to try Shady for the first tme. Fished with a friend from 05:30 to 10:30. Weather was overcast with a few sprinkles. Water was 73 degrees. Not much wind. I was the second boat in the water. It...
By: jmoney2448
Posted: 6/5/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2009
Hot Spots: 1
finally made it over to shady lake tonght. i made it half way around the lake and got a hit, sunk the hook and my damn line broke (unlucky) so i switched to red and got another hit about 2 mins after ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/3/2009
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the lake at 5:30 opening day. It was pretty active; I fished from my Float Tube along with a friend. We even set a couple of Crawfish pots with no luck but the fishing and weather were both superb...
By: Rob G.
Posted: 6/3/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I took the crew (4 boys) to Shady tonight...we caught a mess of trout in just a couple of hours on the water...good times...got home and they went straight to bed! Kept the fish for a bbq this weekend...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at Shady Lake around 5:30 am. There were already four boat launch anglers and 10 boats in the water. I caught three stockers with red power eggs with a 5 ft leader from the boat launch.
S...
By: jmoney2448
Posted: 5/31/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Shady lake opens tommarow June 1st this lake is always good fishing. But i recemend waiting a day or 2 because you will get about 40 -50 boats out plus everyone fishing off their dock. Its good fish...
By: bigcheezeer
Posted: 8/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake at about 1:30 p.m. Used Chartreuse Power Eggs, about 5' off the bottom. At 2:00, hooked into a nice fat 15" triploid. He swallowed the bait so he got ripped up trying to get my hook b...