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By: Joe Heater
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
By: tallman8251
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
By: jetman221
Posted: 5/4/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went to mcmurray to break in the new kicker and to take my buddy trout fishing we fished all over the lake and only caught a couple then we found a really nice hole and pulled four out of it in an ho...
By: Mike Carey
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...
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...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished McMurray with son. On the lake 7:30. Off by 11:30 with limits. All were 10" to 12.5" in length. Some showed parasite damage. This was third outing to McMurray, but first time limiting. We...
By: Smiles22
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We fished Saturday and Sunday afternoon.
The past few times we have been out we have each been able to catch a our limit with in just a couple hours. Worms and a bobber are the way to go right now...
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...
By: DocFish
Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Friend and I went out looking to see what the largies were up to. Got there around 9:00 am. Place was crawling with people. Would be nice if folks would not park in the line up spot and have boats pre...
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, ...
By: tbone331
Posted: 6/15/2014
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/14/2014
Hot Spots: 2
I launched around 11am-noon and watched small trout doing aerobatic jumps all over while I made my way to the point on the North-East side of the lake. I flat-line trolled a silver/gold Dick-Nite on ...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 6/21/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got off work early Monday and ran here as it's about 10-15 minutes away and I just wanted to catch a few fish. Started near the launch and the small fish were everywhere! Missed a couple hits but they...
By: DocFish
Posted: 7/11/2016
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Arrived at lake and had to deal with someone with a bass boat who decided to put in and then park his rig and trailer right in the prep area. Luckily, I know how to back a trailer down.
The stickup...
By: stever
Posted: 4/29/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Fished McMurray for the opening. Fishing was fairly slow, C&R about 7 fish, but nearly as good as years past. A little disappointed with these "larger" fish, I actually liked the old mix of catchabl...
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...
By: steve
Posted: 5/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
hit McMurray early, was on the lake by 5:20 AM. Some surface activity, tried a number of buggers, soft hackles, nymphs with a couple of takes. Moved inshore about 7:30, there seemed to be a lot of m...
