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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
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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
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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.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/24/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lake McMurray today. We have fished there several times this year and have done pretty good. Today was also pretty good except out of 14 fish caught, 11 of them had blisters all over them. Does...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/24/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake about 9:00, started out trolling with a muddler. Caught several fish right away, but they were small (10"), so we let them go. Eventually caught 7 keepers; biggest was 14", the rest ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/26/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2006
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I think I am the only one who fishes this lake for crappie, but there are plenty here. Went about 3 P.M. and C&R'd about 50 crappie in about 2 1/2 hours. Usually around the docks using a 1" curly ta...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/30/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Okay crappiepro or crappieking, how about a little help on where the crappie are. I fished this for about 2 hours casting at every submerged log and all the docks and caught 2 bass that together may h...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/5/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I went searching for the crappies again that I keep hearing are in there and I keep running into Rainbow. Limited out last 3 times there simply drifting with a 1/2 worm and sometimes tipped with pink ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/16/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 12/16/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Joel Heater, I just moved here from Minnesota, wanna make a run soon to Banks lake for Walleyes this summer, let me know. I tried for Crappies today too, marked some but no takes, water temp was 30 de...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/14/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 3/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
This msg is for Joe....get your poles ready. When the lake opens up next month is when you will catch the crappie. Have found that they are nearly impossible to catch after mid-june. Other than tha...
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: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/24/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/24/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Once around the lake trolling a variety of thin blade spoons. Fished 11 to noon. Had other stuff that I needed to do. Anyway, no luck but I did see quite a few fishing rising, some type of insect husk...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/11/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/11/2002
Hot Spots: 0
We arrived about 6:30 AM 4 of us trolled a yellow walleye spinner had 4 yellow beads a yellow spoon and a yellow bead above the spoon used a worm and spring green power bait with or without sparkles. ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/10/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/10/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Had a few hours in the morning open so I figured I'd check out Lake Mac. Usually fishes pretty well for a month or so after the opener. Got to the lake about 8am on a sunny morning and fished a type...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/8/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at about 0900 and worked hard for an hour to catch three fish an a trolled fly (floating line with a sink tip). I followed my advice and changed flies often for the next hour before I pa...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/27/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Made my usual trek to Lake McMurray on opening day. Got there at about 10 a.m. but did not start until about 11. The first hour my six pack fly did nothing-three hits and two fish-then it came alive...
