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Medical Fishing Reports

Posted: 6/23/2010
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to try Medical today and got on the water around 11:00 am. The water was calm with a surface temp of 67° and 61° at 20'. There were no visible hatches and no fish rising. I began at the...
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Posted: 6/11/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Medical today from 11:30 until about 2:00. Surface water temp down again, to 61....will it ever warm up? A good wind from the south at about 10 MPH. I initially started by fishing nymphs ...
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Posted: 6/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the lake at about 10:30. Surface water temp 62. Winds swirling from the West and NW at 15-20 MPH. My fishing buddy and I began by fishing the shallows along the north bank with chironomi...
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Posted: 6/4/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Medical has been VERY SLOW, not only today but for the last two weeks. I suspect this is due to the decrease in water temps. Nearly three weeks ago the surface water temp was 63-64. Last week, afte...
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Posted: 5/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Folks, this is a story and a learning lesson as much as it is a fishing report. I fished the north end of Medical from 10:30 to 3:00, getting several browns and rainbows on nymphs. Browns ran to 19"...
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Posted: 5/2/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the water at about 10:00 A.M. I fished the south (launch) end today. Just 10 minutes after my arrival, a gentlemen and his boys show up and park directly SW of the launch, despite the sign at...
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Posted: 3/20/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Medical Lake's productivity has dropped off drastically over the past week or so, despite the presence of decent hatches. In the past 3 days, my partner and I fished for at least 15 hours, probably m...
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Posted: 3/17/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Four fish to net today, three rainbows and one brown, with a couple others lost. Two of the rainbows were pushing 24" and the brown measured out at 19". My partner, who started an hour or so before ...
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Posted: 3/5/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Being a local, I have fished Medical's north end for at least a few hours in each of the five days since the March 1st opener. Surface water temps are holding at 42-44. Chironomid hatches have been ...
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Posted: 6/19/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I gave Medical my best short yesterday for 4 hours, from 10:00 to 2:00 with nothing to show for it....nothing, notta, zip, not a single take! Surface water temp 74, winds from the SW at 10 MPH. Star...
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By: TroutLure
Posted: 6/17/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Only fished for about an hour and thats my prize! Tried floating bait right off the bottom and that didn't work. I saw the grass and decided to use about a 4-5 foot leader and float the bait above. ...
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Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I hit the water on 5/31 at 6:00am and fished hard all over the south end of Medical lake. I used Black, green and brown Wooleyboogers, Several nymph patterns (6-pack included), Black zonkers, Stimula...
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Posted: 5/30/2009
Species: Tiger Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
As I was driving through Medical Lake I nearly killed a big black cat that ran in front of my truck. I'm usually not a superstitious person however this was a harbinger of things to come. I met a ...
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Posted: 10/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water around 1:00pm at the north end. The weather was perfect, 59 degrees, clear skies with a N.E. wind at 5 mph. I started working the east shore going down to the park on the south end ...
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Posted: 9/28/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I met a couple of friends out at the lake about 2:30 p.m., had a BBQ and started fishing about an hour later. It was a great afternoon to be on the water. The water was very clear with no sign of al...
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Posted: 8/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to go to Medical Lake for some fishing and to watch the Air Show going on at Fairchild. The air show was pretty good, but the fishing was better. The wind was an issue for most of the ...
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Posted: 7/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/19/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Got in the water at 8am. Winds were calm and sky was clear. Water almost bathtub warm. Fished the south end by the clifts. Caught three rainbows(17,14,11) kick fining a zig zag pattern from about 30yr...
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Posted: 7/16/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Got to Medical and set out from the parking area by the hospital on the north end of the lake at 4:30am, almost to dark to see but I have tried later in the morning after I get of work (I work at the ...
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Posted: 7/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Medical from 12:30 to 3:00. Hot, sunny and bright, surface water temp 77. Took my little used 8-weight loaded with type VI sinking line and 2X tippet so I could land and release fish as quick...
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Posted: 5/11/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Finally had a real good day at Medical. Arrived at 1245. Fished the north end. Water temp 55, air the same with heavy, swirling winds. No takes at all for the first hour while kick-finning around ...
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Posted: 5/7/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
After catching/releasing fifteen or so West Medical rainbows, I loaded out and headed to Medical for some real fighting fish. At Medical, I initially fished a stillwater nymph vertically on a Type VI...
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Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Got on the water around noon and caught a couple in the first hour. The weather was great, light breeze, about 62 degrees and high overcast. The water temperature was about 48 degrees. Picked up mo...
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Posted: 4/17/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Medical from 9:30 to 11:30. Water temp 44. No action for the first hour. Things started at about 10:30. My fish finder began picking up fish 12-15 feet down in 25-30 feet of water. An oliv...
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Posted: 4/14/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was the first nice day of 2008 and four of us, Mike, Dave, Joe and I were going to take full advantage of it. Dave and I met Mike and Joe at the lake around 11:00 a.m. We were all successful in h...
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Posted: 4/13/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Marc, Dave, Mike & I had planned a day together at the lake. I was on the water by 10:00 AM but I hadn’t seen anyone else yet. I started by trolling a wine colored wooly bugger from the south end laun...
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