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McMurray Fishing Reports

By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Fished all day with nephew and niece. We hooked many a trout and since they are novice's we lost most. Nothing like a shrieking 8 year old girl with a big trout pulling line. Water was very cold for o...
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By: juggalo
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
took juggalo jr. to mcmurray for the opener, on the water by 5:00, we continued to c&r casting panther martin spinners probably boating another 10 fish,limits by 9:00 the fish all ran between 11"-13"...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/26/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It's been about 35 yrs since I last fished this lake, a lot has changed. Anyways my brother and I got on the lake about 0600,while he was setting his line I cast out with a small weight with about 24"...
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Posted: 10/8/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
The weather decided to wait a day before dumping on us so I headed out for some late season bass fishing. First time on McMurray so I was looking forward to it. Put the boat in the water and made my f...
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Posted: 10/5/2007
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got off work at lunch and the honey do list was short. So took the lab up to McMurray for some Crappie/Perch action. No crappies but did manage to catch a dozen or so perch. Only 2 were over 9 inches....
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Posted: 10/2/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
After leaving perfect "surfing" conditions on good ol' Lake Whatcom, I was headed home when I decided to swing by McMurray, as I remembered it sits down in a bowl and is fairly protected from the wind...
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By: patrikk
Posted: 9/18/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/18/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I hit lake mcmurray at about 11 something trolled to my bass fishing spot so i trolled for about 10 min using a flasher followed by a wedding ring, i got one hit. I bass fished for about 30 min and on...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/4/2007
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
In regards to the Angler whom wants to know about the parasites he found on the trout he caught out of the lake. It is called Red sores . Here is an article http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/VM059 I've seen t...
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Posted: 9/2/2007
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to the Lake in The AM. Not to bad of a morning couple of other boats out there. 1st time fishing this lake. Caught a couple of trout. They had parasites on them. Have read other reports of ...
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By: fox9068
Posted: 8/18/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/17/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Bought a mini pro troll down rigger and had to go out and try it out, with out a fish finder i didn't know how deep to run the ball, I tried 20' for about an hour using a yellow pro-troll trout lure, ...
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By: fox9068
Posted: 8/12/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
went to Lake Armstrong 6:00am this morning fished for 3 hours no luck so i head McMurray, 1/2 hour into fishing I caught a 13 incher then my battery started to go dead ,started to head back and anch...
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By: dave g
Posted: 8/12/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2007
Hot Spots: 0
we almost beat the crack of dawn to the lake this morning. it was a nice, cool morning and the lake was socked in with fog, with less than 100' visibility. we were in the water and fishing by o630 an...
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By: dave g
Posted: 6/13/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
we put in the water right at noon.. there was a slight southerly wind with scattered clouds and periods of sunshine. i caught on nice fatty about 15 minutes out. the fish turned out to be as finicky a...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 6/1/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing about 10:30 with the conditions being bright, warm, and windy. 2 of us trolled both black and green buggers and had good success, hooking 10-12 apiece and landing a total of 7, all cat...
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By: tommonroe
Posted: 6/1/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/31/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My wife insists that I give this day a 5. We hit the lake at 10:30AM and it was windy enough that we wore jackets all day. We fished for 4 hours and had great luck, at least my wife did. We both us...
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By: tommonroe
Posted: 5/30/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I went to McMurray on the 29th and spent about 3 hours and only caught one rainbow. We went back on the 30th and got on the lake at 9:15AM. Lake was smooth and calm. I tried every thing...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/27/2007
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My Dad and I decided to give Lake McMurray a try on Friday hoping to avoid a possible Memorial Day rush for the weekend. When we arrived there were only two other rigs parked at the WDFW parking area....
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Posted: 5/15/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
McMurray is probably my favorite lake to fish. No speed boats but you can bring an outboard. Now all they need to do is get rid of the Largemouth and replace them with Smallmouth. WDFW was giving some...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/14/2007
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lake McMurray for the first time this year. We had 2 boats in our group with 3 anglers in each boat. Those in my boat fished with Powerbait in the morning and after only catching a total of 7 f...
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By: Mike33
Posted: 5/10/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from around noon until 5:00pm. Trolled two woolly buggers (black and green) on a sinking fly line about 30 feet from the shoreline all the way around the lake. The north western corner was th...
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By: steve
Posted: 5/6/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Took a day off work to give McMurray a shot after opening day. Started about 5:45AM, the weather was calm & overcast. It was a decent pick, took 6-fish (all C&R) before I called it a morning about 9...
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By: dave g
Posted: 5/3/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We put in the water about 1100. It was a little overcast with a slight bit of wind, but not too bad really. Got one nice 14 incher right off the ramp and proceeded to drift-troll down the east side of...
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By: steve
Posted: 5/3/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hit McMurray opening morning from my float tube. Put the tube in @ the public launch about 5:45, had moved to the west side of the lake and release the five fish by 6:10. It was a fish-a-cast for th...
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By: SDAngler
Posted: 5/1/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hit McMurray up this morning with the float tube. Started out throwing a Kastmaster and a black rooster tail with only one bump. Switched over to a white 64th oz.. tube jig with a half a chartreuse...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/14/2007
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
This msg is for Joe....get your poles ready. When the lake opens up next month is when you will catch the crappie. Have found that they are nearly impossible to catch after mid-june. Other than tha...
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