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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!.
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 ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/14/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Went out today and landed the first one three minutes after we hit the water that was at 9am.Then the bite just stopped and picked up again around 11 am. I picked up four using an Uncle Wes Green and ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/24/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2004
Hot Spots: 0
This is one of Skagit Counties most popular trout lakes and for good reason. We went out yesterday and I trolled an Uncle Wes green and black with a trout dodger and 1 and 1/4 oz of weight about 80 fe...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/25/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Tried to get to McMurray on opening day, but couldn't find a parking spot at 5:30 AM. However, I did manage to get back on Sunday afternoon. Fished from about 12:30-2:00 from my float tube. A bit w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/24/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/24/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing this lake at 2:00 -put my float tube in the water and launched from the shore got a bite about 5 minutes into it -using a red macks wedding ring with a worm trailing behind it. Caught...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/27/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/27/2003
Hot Spots: 0
What a great lake. I started out Friday night and fished on through Sunday evening. There was not a time period of more then 20mins that went by without a bit. All rainbows about 9-12 inches, and hitt...
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...
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 ...
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.
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/24/1999
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/24/1999
Hot Spots: 0
I took my two sons, age 5 and 8, to fish Opening Day on McMurray. It was a second choice when I discovered Cranberry Lake allowed no motors. We started fishing at 8am, the place was crowded but not ja...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/29/1998
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/1998
Hot Spots: 0
My brother and I arrived at the lake at 9 am and dropped his 12 ft
inflatable into the water. We headed south from the boat launchfor about
1/4 mile and stayed on the west side of the lake and then ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/30/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2005
Hot Spots: 0
WOW!!! Opening day at Lake McMurray was great! I got to the lake at about 5 AM. There was only two reasonable parking spaces available when I got there. I parked right behind the port-a-potty and star...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2005
Hot Spots: 0
We got on the lake about 5:30 which is when most people seemed to get on the lake. Put out a Panther Martin spinner. Silver blade with yellow body and put it in the pole holder and turned to help my f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Saturday 5.28.05 evening. Not much action on the lake...talked to some local residents who said the fishing was slow. Sunday AM 5.29.05 started out about 8AM dragging a fly around the North e...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/4/2005
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Rating: 2
Fished: 8/2/2005
Hot Spots: 0
got to the lake late didnt get ay bites but did see others catching trout...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2006
Hot Spots: 0
We hit the lake at 9:00 and trolled 3 lines. At 10:15 we landed our first bow on a olive fly behind a float at 5 feet. Great fighting 13 incher in the net. An hour later our second bow came on a green...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from a float tube opening morning, used green wooly bugger with a non-descript black/white nymph dropper. Had my first fish on within 5-minutes, continued to catch/release fish all morning un...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/2/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I started fishing at about 3:30-4:00 am off my dock and had no luck so i then took my pontoon boat out at around 5:00am trolling a yellow woolly bugger and about 2 minutes after i put it in i had my ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/5/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I have given this a rating of 5 because my wife and I have not fished since 1970. This morning we hit the lake a 7 AM, and I used a black wet fly and she used a Wedding Ring, both with a small split ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/13/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2006
Hot Spots: 0
My Dad and I tried McMurray for the first time. Even though it was a week day, the parking lot was almost full. We motored out to where it looked like other people were still fishing and cast out our ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fished McMurray early Sat. AM from a float tube. Slow pick on some nice sized plants, 11-13". They seemed to want a fairly fast retrieve. 75% of the fish came on a green wooly bugger, with a touch ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/28/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2006
Hot Spots: 0
My Dad and I decided to go back to Lake McMurray after having a good experience a few weeks ago. We also decided to only do trolling this time. For a few hours in the morning I had no luck with the ol...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2006
Hot Spots: 0
On Memorial Day I was with a group of seven scouts and adult leaders. After
about five hours of fishing, we had caught our limit of 35 fish. The fish ranged in
size from 10 inches to 15 1/2 inches...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived 7 AM. Light rain, no wind. Fished Black and Olive Woolly Bugger. Nine fish by ten AM. All around 15 to 18 inches.
