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McMurray Fishing Reports

McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/14/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the lake about 2:00pm. Was a partly cloudy day, 65f with a variable wind 5 - 15 mph. Caught first fish within 10 min of launching. Had steady hits most of the day on the surface. We limited...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/26/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Made my annual opening day trip to Lake McMurray getting there about 1:00 a.m. and starting fishing at 11-no rush since the fish are not oriented to time this early in the season. Some people having ...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/8/2002
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/8/2002
Hot Spots: 0
SUMMARY: One 9 inch perch caught in 8 hours of fishing while trolling with an orange-and-green, tiger-striped Luhr Jehnsen spoon. DETAILS: Started fishing at 6:30 a.m. mild drizzle to full sun f...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Tough lake to conquer. When I went it was windy. Caught a couple of nice sized trout. It is probably a better opening day lake.
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/10/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/10/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Had a few hours in the morning open so I figured I'd check out Lake Mac. Usually fishes pretty well for a month or so after the opener. Got to the lake about 8am on a sunny morning and fished a type...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/8/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at about 0900 and worked hard for an hour to catch three fish an a trolled fly (floating line with a sink tip). I followed my advice and changed flies often for the next hour before I pa...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/27/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Made my usual trek to Lake McMurray on opening day. Got there at about 10 a.m. but did not start until about 11. The first hour my six pack fly did nothing-three hits and two fish-then it came alive...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/11/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/11/2002
Hot Spots: 0
We arrived about 6:30 AM 4 of us trolled a yellow walleye spinner had 4 yellow beads a yellow spoon and a yellow bead above the spoon used a worm and spring green power bait with or without sparkles. ...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/1/2001
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/1/2001
Hot Spots: 0
We arrived at the lake about 8am, six of us. The fishing was very slow with me being the only successful one in the party. Caught one 16" on a homebrew red chironomid pattern and lost another brut (...
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McMurray
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/24/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/24/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Once around the lake trolling a variety of thin blade spoons. Fished 11 to noon. Had other stuff that I needed to do. Anyway, no luck but I did see quite a few fishing rising, some type of insect husk...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/19/2001
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2001
Hot Spots: 0
We went fishing on lake Mcmurray. me and my friend on a boat. The lake has cutters and rainbows. We only caught one 6 pounder on powerbait. People have caught their limit their!.
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/2/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing about 06:30 and got a strike right off the boat launch Trolled pop gear and worms in a zig-zag pattern to the far end of the lake picking up 5 10"-12" 'bows on the way. Fishing was ...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/20/2000
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/20/2000
Hot Spots: 0
We are still fishing McMurray and slaying them . They are so fun they jump so far out of the water the only thing better would have been if we could have been in out Float tubes but with Ray's knee...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2000
Hot Spots: 0
YEE HA....This lake has some average size fighters in it >> and from what i've seen with the fishing pressure its slowed down since end of may >> get there early to catch the big bite around 9:am...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/31/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this lake early am with a few bites but no hook ups. This looks like a quality lake but don't be fooled > only thing I've ever caught was 12 inch and under if you like playing the small ones wi...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/20/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2000
Hot Spots: 0
UNbelievable .. We had no problem getting our limits. Size umm 12 to 14 mostly couldn't have been more chunky great great Fishing. And all over the lake the squeals from kids and fishing fol...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/4/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/4/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing at about 7:40 a.m. with a streamer fly (unknown name) with three hits and only one to the boat in the first hour, switched to a "six-pack" with a little better success. Finally turned...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/30/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2000
Hot Spots: 0
We fished Lake McMurray early Sunday morning. It was mild temperatures, and no wind to speak of. Perfect fishing weather. I used a Chartreuse green (with darker spots) dick nite, and Wife Person used...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/30/2000
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Sunday after opening day started out real slow at 7:30a.m. fish got active at 10:00 or so. Had 2 limits by 1:00p.m. Kept nothing under 15". Went back next day with 3 other persons in boat fishe...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2000
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/29/2000
Hot Spots: 0
I do an annual fish in at Lake McMurray with some friends. Some years are great and others are poor but this is a tradition. We usually get to the lake after noon to avoid most of the early morning...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/16/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 1/16/2000
Hot Spots: 0
I note with interest that no one mentions the fine largemouth bass fishing in Lake McMurray. I have fished it quite a bite in the past and found the bass fishing to be quite productive. I also had...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/27/1999
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/27/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Sunday morning on McMurray. Arrived at 6:30 am and found about five other boats on the lake already. By the time I left at noon the lake was very crowded. Probably fifty boats out. I was f...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/1999
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/2/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lake McMurray two mornings in a row without success. Typically trolling in this lake with thin bladed spoons and flatfish produce quite a few strikes-not these two trips! Not even a bite. Saw ...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/30/1999
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/1999
Hot Spots: 0
3 of us started fishing about 7:30. Bill and Bart were using triple teasers (green with black spots) tipped with a worm. I was using an olive wooly bugger. Within the first 10 minutes we had all c...
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McMurray
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/24/1999
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/1999
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I fished Lake McMurray opening day. We arrived at 6 am to quite a line at the boat ramp. Parking was at a premium in finding a spot, and 10.00 fee in a neighboring field. It moved quickly ...
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