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By: CaffOMHW
Posted: 5/28/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2008
Hot Spots: 1
When on a group trip with guys from Church. Hit the lake at 7:30-8 ish. We had a small armada of boats out on the lake. Followed our resident expert to a drop off pit on the south side of the bend on ...
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By: CozShnoz
Posted: 6/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Just got done cleaning fish, just joined the forum, and this is my first post. Left work a little early today and launched the boat at about 4:15pm. Took a while to catch the first one, but this w...
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By: CozShnoz
Posted: 6/7/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got off work an hour early again and headed back out to McMurray tonight. Got on the lake right about 5:00pm and fished until about 8:30. Used a wooly bugger (brownish) again, caught a whole mess of...
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By: madmarv
Posted: 7/11/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
well, here you go! the boy and i started around 9am with maybe 6 other boats out on the water saw a good spot on the fish finder and decided to drop anchor...within a hour we pulled in 3 nice 15+ inc...
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By: SDAngler
Posted: 10/22/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/21/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I have been wanting to try McMurray before the end of the season so I took my float tube for a couple hours in the morning. I got into the water at about 9:00 am and fished for a little less than two...
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By: rseas
Posted: 4/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We had a great morning fishing Lake McMurray. We left the WSFG boat ramp heading northwest and cast out the first rod. While getting ready to cast rod # 2, # 1 goes off. I hand the rod off the younges...
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Posted: 4/28/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went up to McMurray with my fiancé. we got to the lake about 6:30, and were on the water by 7. We had a slow start. i was pulling a blue spoon, and she had a flashy blue lure, and nothing. we swit...
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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: GeryG
Posted: 5/15/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 10am to 3pm. 12 fish caught, tons of bites. At one point when trolling I let my line out 5 different times and had bites 20 feet behind the boat each time. I think a few fish were followin...
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Posted: 5/16/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for couple hours around 4pm. Weather was great not too many folks on the lake. Water is heating up though 62 degress. Slow fishing, caught 4 in 4hrs and called it quits. Fished on south end o...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/21/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Great day at McMurray. Put in at 6:30, limited on bows by 9:30 mostly stockers with a cuople holdovers.....wedding ring with a worm and a little weight, slow troll, a strike every 5-10 minutes or so. ...
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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: 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: 6/10/2012
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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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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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: 5/6/2013
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: 5/7/2013
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: 5/14/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Got my limit in no time. Almost wanted to take the hook off and just have bait just so I could extend my day. The east side was hot just south of the point that turns into the cove.
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Posted: 5/18/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Day started slowly, lots of hits, very little to show. Picked up around 0800, trolling Wedding Ring / Needlefish with powerbait. Ended up getting my limit, fish were 10"-12", off by 0900,...
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Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Launched boat around 0700, brother using green needlefish with green powerbait and power maggot, I was using green wedding ring w/chartreuse powerbait. hits were steady and very aggressive. Noticed th...
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