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By: flyguy
Posted: 3/25/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/22/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Dead calm as I started trolling a small attractor bugger fly at 10:45am. Nothing much was rising such that I used a 4 wt. clear intermediate sink line. Had 8 strikes and 5 fish. All fish were 9-11...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 6/14/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day to troll flies for trout. Size 12 attractor buggers did the trick. Intermediate sink line 8-10 feet deep on a slow troll. 2 of us landed 20 fish from 11:30 to 3:30. Mostly 11-12 inche...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 3/21/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/20/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day but slow on the fishing. Things picked up in mid afternoon, but still slow. Not sure where 7,000 trout went but saw very few on the fish finder. Trolled the entire lake searching for a...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 5/7/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day to fish stocker Rainbows. good fighters on a 3 wt rod. Used clear intermediate line trolling and casted with retrieve. Leeches, buggers, nymphs, all seen to work. Lost more than w...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 4/29/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day, on the lake at 10:30. Partly cloudy with some wind gusts at times. Trolled flies with intermediate sink line and they were biting 2 minutes into the trip. 2 of us fished till 2:15 and...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 5/17/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful morning on the lake. Lots of surface feeders. Fishing partner and I both caught and released a dozen fish each. Bite slowed down a bit in early afternoon. Nice fight from these mostl...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 4/7/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Did a little fly fishing in the middle of the day....not so productive. 3 fish, 9-13" , for 2 fisherman over 4.5 hours. used intermediate sink, and full sink, leeches, buggers, hare's ear, and oth...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 4/4/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great day for trolling flys. 4-5 boats on the lake, all having success, some using flies, others spoons. Over the course of the afternoon landed 12 fish 8-16 inches and my fishing partner landed 6 ...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 11/16/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/15/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Got to the lake about 10:30, sorry we were so late......parking lot was full, but found a spot up front as a early boater had just left. That fishermen had 3 fish, one about 17 inches and fat, an...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 5/4/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Trolled 3 flies, black bugger, red crystal BH bugger, and white leech. All worked well. used intermediate sink line and floating with sink tip. Recommend the sink tip, fish were mostly on the surf...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 5/4/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Partly cloudy, warm, water temp 58, slight breeze..... and a whole mess of fish.....caught 25, missed another 25, all C &R. Trolled black, green, and gray buggers and nymphs. Use a clear intermediat...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 5/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Pine had a good consistent bite today. Cloudy, cool, calm, water temp 56, with fish rising all day. Trolled, casted, striped fast & slow, it all worked. Buggers in black, peacock, green, rainbow, th...
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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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By: flyguy
Posted: 4/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day with mainly calm water on Rattlesnake. Surface water temperature was 48 degrees. The water was very high and clear. Two of us caught 10-12 fish averaging 9". Two fish were a fat 15"...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 9/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing about 12 noon till 5pm. Warm and calm to begin with, water temp 62 degrees. About 2pm started to rain some and then more steady. Fishing was OK, with my buddy and I catching 1-15" ...
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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: flyguy
Posted: 4/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Interesting day to say the least. When to Heart, got the boat in the water at 10am, push off, got the electric motor in the water and looked down to see water in the boat. Wonderful....... found cr...
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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: flyguy
Posted: 4/30/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Reached McMurray about 9:30. It was dead calm. Guys were already leaving the lake. about a dozen boats on the lake. all having success. nice stocker trout, that fight extremely well. used a 4 wt....
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By: flyguy
Posted: 5/20/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
At first the day looked to be challenging as just as I finished putting the boat in the water and gearing it up.... the wind started to blow. After about an hour it settled right down, and it was the...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 5/12/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Worked the very low waters of Rattlesnake. A few boats on the water as launching was a bit of a problem, but if your trailered boat isn't too heavy you can get it over the rocks. Water was 53 deg...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 5/7/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Erie first, poor reports, so scooted over to Heart. Saw a few fish jump and one on from a float tuber. Put the boat in and used the same exact setup I used the previous day at Pine. C&R 1...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 5/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, got out of Mason county and read some reports and bingo, thanks for the tips from Pine. Had a least 50 bites, landed 30 fish on a plain black bugger size 12. Sink tip line was the key, slo...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 5/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Boy, went to reliable ole Spencer and for the first time, got the skunkola!! I saw lot's of boats and no trout caught except a guy at the launch... had one and left. Hard to explain... talked wit...
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By: flyguy
Posted: 5/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 3 hours with not so much as a nibble. Rising fish here and there but nothing. fish finder showed lots of fish in the lake. tried deep, intermediate, surface, nothing. Others on the lake h...
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