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McMurray Fishing Reports

Posted: 5/7/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Launched about 5pm, had two 12 inchers in the livewell in 10 min. was a bit windy for trolling but put one more in the well and lost 3 others ( time to hone hooks on that flatfish ) was a nice sunny d...
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Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at 0645, finally left @ 0930, took longer that my brother & I wanted, but we got our limits. Counted only 7 boats when we finally launched. Trolled using Wedding Rings, (Green & Red) an...
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Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Headed up to McMurry for the fist time today since i was about 10. Wanted to see if i could get the boat off the trailer, which I could. Fished for about 1.5 hours and caught 6. Trolling on the east s...
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Posted: 5/4/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 6 am, trolling with Dick nights and wicked willie's. Got a bite every few minutes, bite really turned on about 7:30 for about 30 minutes, then went pretty dead. We caught 5 to the boat and...
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By: stever
Posted: 10/28/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit McMurray late Sunday afternoon for a couple of hrs. for what will be the last trip of this year. The fish are still biting, nice grade of fish stillfishing from my float tube. C&R (4), a lot mo...
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By: stever
Posted: 10/24/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/24/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Granddaughter had no school today, so we took our float tubes to McMurray to give it a shot at some late season trout. Didn't get there until nearly noon, but had good action on eggs and powerbait. ...
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By: mitchard
Posted: 6/21/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Didn't get on the lake til about 3 pm thanks to work. Beautiful day though. Nice and sunny, with just a little wind. Started off trolling a red wedding ring with a worm, and a black/gold PM spinne...
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By: fishdood
Posted: 6/20/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2012
Hot Spots: 3
had a good day on the lake today got out there at 630 caught 2 right off the back then it got slow. Had lots of hits and shakers but 2 big 15 inch trout.
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By: DocFish
Posted: 6/10/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to lake around 11:15. First wave of trout chasers started to leave. All looked like they had great luck. I went out with my wife, Shelly and our 5 year old son and 2 year old daughter. They sat th...
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By: jonb
Posted: 6/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Got to mcmurray and the boat in the water by 7am, with my friend and his brother on board, we were all trolling wedding rings near the surface, i caught 4, my friend caught 4, his brother caught 2, ma...
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By: DocFish
Posted: 6/5/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at 10:30 and got a late jump. There were three locals fishing the two stick ups close to the south end of the lake-all limited in short order. Had envy. Tried rooster tails, wedding rings, ...
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By: DocFish
Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Friend and I went out looking to see what the largies were up to. Got there around 9:00 am. Place was crawling with people. Would be nice if folks would not park in the line up spot and have boats pre...
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By: jonb
Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 3
got to mcmurray and into the water by 7:15 am, out of the lake with a limit for me and my friend by 9:30am we knocked em dead on wedding rings and worm. the rainbows were 9"-13" and all seemed unusual...
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Posted: 5/27/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Caught (3) 12" & (2) 10". Lost (4) and fish were nibbling all morning til 12:00pm.
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Posted: 5/1/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Great fishing right from 6:00am caught 2 trout within 10 minutes. Then catch and release from there on.
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By: stever
Posted: 4/29/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Fished McMurray for the opening. Fishing was fairly slow, C&R about 7 fish, but nearly as good as years past. A little disappointed with these "larger" fish, I actually liked the old mix of catchabl...
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Posted: 4/28/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Beautiful day to be out, No rain!! Overcast with some sun, slight to moderate breeze. Trolled Needlefish/Wedding Ring tipped with power maggots and chartreusse powerbait, got 4, brother caught 5, lost...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/13/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
got on the water a little after 7 am and by 7:30 i landed my largest bass ever. it weighed over 4 pounds. the rest of the day was a little slow i landed 3 more smaller bass and my fishing buddy got no...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/4/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well Finally the Lake started being fun. Water temp 60.3, and fish were biting very well. Most fish on top 5-8 feet of water. trolling pop gear with a Black wicked willie. Love those lures and when my...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished McMurray with son. On the lake 7:30. Off by 11:30 with limits. All were 10" to 12.5" in length. Some showed parasite damage. This was third outing to McMurray, but first time limiting. We...
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By: Einar
Posted: 5/31/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started out fishing around 10:30am. Using red HotShot plug caught & released 3, then switched over to red Flatfish caught & released 1. Constantly getting bites. Fished until 2:00pm.Descent day of fis...
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By: GeryG
Posted: 5/24/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 10:30 to 3:00. Between the two of us we landed and released 9 trout. Slow day on the water. If you used flashers it was better, but I cant bring myself to use them due to the drag. All fis...
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By: Smiles22
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We fished Saturday and Sunday afternoon. The past few times we have been out we have each been able to catch a our limit with in just a couple hours. Worms and a bobber are the way to go right now...
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Posted: 5/21/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
So much re: forecast, overcast & intermittent rain, but still went out. Wife caught 3 including the biggest one about 14", I caught 2 about 10" each. 2nd time out for her ever, but she stuck it out. W...
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Posted: 5/9/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tried McMurray for the opener since it didn't break the bank to drive to. Crowded, lots of fun and excitement. Trolling wasn't effective for me so switched to drifting around dragging bait. Caught ...
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