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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/24/1999
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/1999
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at the lake and found it to be a zoo. I wasn't very optimistic that the fishing would be great.
I got in my float tube and fished along the shoreline to the left of the boat launch and a...
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: 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...
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: 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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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: 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"...
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"...
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...
By: ddraszt
Posted: 8/12/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
took dad fishing for his birthday. fished 7:30AM -11:30am. overcast and mid 60's. trolled pop gear and wedding rings with worms. working east side of lake straight off of boat launch to the dog leg ab...
By: cobrar543
Posted: 4/25/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/24/2016
Hot Spots: 1
After Saturday out on the boat with Zack, I was so relaxed and full of energy still so after getting on my wifes nerves she suggested I go fishing. Another reason I love that woman! So hooked up the ...
By: Papahj
Posted: 4/28/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I launched the boat around 8 am and the conditions were great! A few other boats on the lake but not at all crowded. With in 5 min or so of trolling pop gear ( jack of diamonds) the bite was on! I lim...
By: Bat_Fish
Posted: 7/25/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/23/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Headed up to Lake McMurray in search of Rainbow Trout. First time fishing this lake, but did my research on northwestfishingreports.com. Launched at the WDFW site at the Southern end of the lake, ju...
By: Papahj
Posted: 5/1/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I launched around 9 am it was a little windy and water temps were in the mid 50's. I started trolling from the launch along the west side of the lake and immediately I started marking fish all through...
