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McMurray Fishing Reports

By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/9/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We had a great day, but of us caught our limit. All the fish were 12-14" except one which was 18 1/4". Seeing the eagles fly around while fishing is an added bonus, beautiful!
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By: flyguy
Posted: 5/4/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
McMurray had a good number of boats today, parking full, and mostly calm waters. Water temp was 54 degrees. Trolled atractors flies, sparse body, size 16, caught 8 fish in 2 hours. Switched to bla...
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Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, could not believe the lack of, have never worked this hard to get 1 fish, only bite of the day, about 10", my wife, (1st time out, ever!!) also was 1 for 1. My brother, went out both days, total ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Don't use the rating above. The fishing was just Horrible. My Nephew and niece usually have to keep telling me to throw that one back. Last year we caught our limit in a hour. We caught just 2 fish fo...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 10/12/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had to run up and say bye bye to another one of my favorite little bass lakes that closes for no good reason at the end of this month. Got a phone call shortly after launching that made it so I would ...
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By: Wyatt
Posted: 6/19/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to this lake around 6:30AM. When we got there, there was only 2 other boats on the lake. For the first 3 hours we didn't even have a bite. But as the day went on we decided to get our flashers dow...
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Posted: 6/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My Dad and I decided to give Lake McMurray another try. The weather forecast called for clearing skies and no rain. The first few hours of fishing did not produce any bites. We noticed people in a boa...
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By: maxlilly
Posted: 5/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit McMurray at 6:30 in the morning first fish in 10 min., 4 strikes in first 30 min. Next fish 4 1/2 hours later. We ended up with 4 14" to 16" inchers. It was slow. Only took one pic. of the first o...
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Posted: 5/24/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lake McMurray with four others. Not nearly as many people out fishing as the last time I was out on the lake. We had a few times where it rained, but overall, the weather was decent. We only ca...
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Posted: 5/14/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled for 4 hours, very few boats out for a beautiful weekday in the pacific northwest. Windy, with about 65 degrees temp. Had about 10 bites, with only one fish on to the boat, could have been the...
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Posted: 5/8/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My Dad and I decided to give Lake McMurray a try. We got one of the few remaining parking spots near the launch. As the day went along, we saw many more boats out on the lake. We ended up only catchin...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 5/5/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A return trip to McMurray this week. Fishing at 11am, cold wet and breezy. Water temp. 53 degrees. Used clear intermediate sink trolling or stripping black, brown, green and white buggers. Landed ...
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By: Dave
Posted: 4/30/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished McMurray this morning. Water temp was 54.3 degrees, raining off and on, air temp was 46 degrees.. I arrived at 6:15 am and fished for 2 ½ hours. I had and missed 3 strikes, boated no fish. I sa...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 4/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started in about 11am trolling flies deep with little success. went to an intermediate sinking line and used a size 12 hare's ear. That was the trick. later used a prince nymph also effective. My...
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By: Dave
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Last minute, took a buddy who was visiting from Spokane out for a couple hours. We were on the water by 1pm and off by 3pm. We trolled a Mack's Flashlite and green wedding rings tipped with power bait...
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By: steve
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Joined the crowds @ McMurray for opening morning. Fished a number of different patterns from my float tube, and had my first fish to hand in about 5-minutes. Caught a couple more, and then nothing u...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/14/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take a buddy from work and fish McMurray one more time before it closes for the season:( BOOOO!!! ALL LAKES YEAR ROUND!! We started the day off working the east shore with jigs, grubs...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 8/15/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 7am and there was only one other vehicle in the parking lot. Headed west of the launch first to fish the small area of logs and pads with some topwater baits, this only resulted in one sma...
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By: ddraszt
Posted: 8/12/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
took dad fishing for his birthday. fished 7:30AM -11:30am. overcast and mid 60's. trolled pop gear and wedding rings with worms. working east side of lake straight off of boat launch to the dog leg ab...
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By: bcalvert
Posted: 7/26/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the lake at 5:30am - Started at the north end of the lake and worked my way down the east bank. Got a couple of good bites early with the buzz bait but i coulnd't get them hooked (wait, wa...
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Posted: 6/30/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got up this morning to try out mcmurray. I was the first one on the lake a little before 6:00am. Fished for about 2 hours until i caught a 1 1/2 - 2 pound bass. I was throwing worms, jigs, spinner ba...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 6/17/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched on McMurray at about 3pm and instantly saw a school of fry breaking the surface near the launch, so I motored out past them and changed a couple rods and rigs around from Clear Lake earlier t...
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By: trophymac
Posted: 6/6/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well we probably made our last trip to Mcmurray for the year. We made it out yesterday and got 4 but we had to work for them. One had the start of some worms, so we headed back out tonight. Only caugh...
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By: Dave
Posted: 5/31/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lake McMurray this morning. I arrived at 6am and there were 6 others already on the water or launching. Fish were very active on the surface mainly turning and breaking the water. Later in the ...
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By: Dave
Posted: 5/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Another great trip to Lake McMurray (my third in the last five days). This morning I was on the water at around 7:30 and headed north past the tree stump where I trolled a 3/0 Les Davis chrome dodger ...
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