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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2000
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/29/2000
Hot Spots: 0
I do an annual fish in at Lake McMurray with some friends. Some years are great and others are poor but this is a tradition. We usually get to the lake after noon to avoid most of the early morning...
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: Anonymous
Posted: 8/7/2004
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Very slow this time of year, my friend Rick and I trolled in the evening from 6:00 to 9:00, got two strikes using #12 olive bead head wooly bugger 3' below surface and the other fly at various depths ...
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: 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: Anonymous
Posted: 5/4/2008
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing on Lake McMurray is always a good place for the opener. I fish the afternoon due to the crowded conditions at the launch. Seems like all the fish are healthy with big shoulders. Good fighte...
By: flyguy
Posted: 5/5/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A return trip to McMurray this week. Fishing at 11am, cold wet and breezy. Water temp. 53 degrees. Used clear intermediate sink trolling or stripping black, brown, green and white buggers. Landed ...
By: flyguy
Posted: 4/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started in about 11am trolling flies deep with little success. went to an intermediate sinking line and used a size 12 hare's ear. That was the trick. later used a prince nymph also effective. My...
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....
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...
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...
By: yellowkayak
Posted: 4/26/2009
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great outing this morning. Had my limit in about an hour and a half. The largest about 16 inches. Looks like the osprey were also doing quite well.
By: Steelheadrod
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...
By: flyguy
Posted: 5/4/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
McMurray had a good number of boats today, parking full, and mostly calm waters. Water temp was 54 degrees. Trolled atractors flies, sparse body, size 16, caught 8 fish in 2 hours. Switched to bla...
By: mdbobber
Posted: 10/14/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Thought I would try Lake McMurray with some new flies my dad had tied. What a beautiful day. Lake was like glass and beavers were playing along the shore. Started out with a Black O'Leary and small 00...
By: flyguy
Posted: 6/14/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day to troll flies for trout. Size 12 attractor buggers did the trick. Intermediate sink line 8-10 feet deep on a slow troll. 2 of us landed 20 fish from 11:30 to 3:30. Mostly 11-12 inche...
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: 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: 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: Papahj
Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We launched the boat around 9 am and started trolling a chartreuse wedding ring with a little worm. The fishing was good but all of the fish that were caught had white worm like growths all over them....
By: jonb
Posted: 8/24/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
my friend yen (ilvlkcassidy) and i hit lake mcmurray today in search of trout. we arrived just before noon, the wind was rough, the sun was bright and the temps were hot, some of the toughest conditio...
By: cobrar543
Posted: 4/26/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2015
Hot Spots: 1
The morning's rain sure has changed me. I would never let some liquid sunshine stop me as a young man. LOL It stopped about 11am and I couldn't stand it any more.
The boat was ready so off I we...
By: Papahj
Posted: 5/5/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I launched the boat around 9 am and headed to the cove and drifted back towards the boat launch to see if I could scare up a bass while I waited for a friend to show up. I had a big fat one follow my ...
