Scooby-Doo Hooks the Lake Monster

Scooby-Doo Hooks the Lake Monster is the final of three stories in the activity and coloring book Scooby-Doo! Mystery Adventures, by Golden Books.

Unlike the other two stories, this one is meant to be removed, folded and stapled into a book on its own, thus each single page of the main book is broken up into two for this story.

Premise
When the gang's plan for a boat ride is ruined, they go looking for the monster responsible.

Synopsis
Mystery Inc. arrives at Lake Coolsville for a boat ride, only to find out that they're closed due to a monster. Velma doesn't believe it and insists they investigate. Instead of helping however, Shaggy and Scooby eat a bunch of snacks and go fishing. Scooby catches a steering wheel, while Shaggy snags the fin of the Lake Monster.

The monster drags the pair to a property full of sculptures. They bring the rest of the gang there and Velma bribes Scooby with a Scooby Snack to get a closer look at the sculptures. As they look around, they notice the Lake Monster on the shore, removing his mask, revealing himself to be the artist.

After he explains he had only wanted to scare people away so that it would be quiet at the lake again, so he could focus on his art, Scooby paints a new boat ride sign, politely asking visitors to stay quiet.

Characters
Main characters:
 * Mystery Inc.
 * Scooby-Doo
 * Shaggy Rogers
 * Fred Jones
 * Daphne Blake
 * Velma Dinkley

Supporting characters:
 * None

Villains:
 * Lake Monster
 * Artist

Other characters:
 * Boat ride guests

Locations

 * Lake Coolsville
 * Artist's residence

Objects

 * "Boat Rides" sign
 * Fishing reel
 * Steering wheel
 * Sculptures
 * Scooby Snack

Vehicles

 * Boats

Suspects

 * None

Miscellaneous

 * Scooby Snacks bribe: 1.
 * "Ruh-roh" count: 0.
 * "Zoinks" count: 3.
 * "Jinkies" count: 0.
 * "Jeepers" count: 0.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

 * Although the Lake Monster only drags Shaggy and Scooby across the lake to the artist's residence, it's not really explained how the rest of the gang got there or why Scooby would have needed a bribe to look at the sculptures they'd all already seen.
 * This appears to be one of few times when the monster unmasks themselves, prior to the gang figuring out who they are.