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Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 0600. Setup and baited hook with power bait and floating worm. Lake is high and still very colded, Bites did not come, fished for seven hours and tried a wide variety of setups ...
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Posted: 4/30/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The kids and I went for the annual Opening Day midnight fishing. Fishing was slow but caught a few. There was a slight breeze and got a bit cold after a few hours. Still had fun spending time with ea...
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By: T-Bone
Posted: 9/22/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I decided to try West Medical Lake prior to the end of the month closure. We anticipated a nice early Fall day with temperatures in the 60's. Instead, we were greeted with a brisk North wi...
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Posted: 9/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived around 7:30 in the morning. walked around to the south-west portion of the lake. set up my rod with powerbait and cast out about 100 feet from the shore. Several bites through this method. ...
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By: ewb46
Posted: 8/9/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent three hours out fishing from the dock, and the east point. No luck from anyone in the vicinity. I used several diffrent baits, casted just about everywhere. Not even a bite. I thought it was...
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By: T-Bone
Posted: 6/22/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I had a nice morning fishing with two of my over 70 year old fishing buddies. I'm the "Kid" of the bunch at age 57. I caught my limit and my two friends caught fish as well. The only negative was your...
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By: srushing
Posted: 6/19/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
No luck today of course it didn't help that I had to take the 4 year old to the bathroom twice. I did see one guy catch his limit using power bait and fishing the bottom. Oh well better luck next time...
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Posted: 6/6/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to the lake around 11 a.m. nice day. I was using wedding rings and 1 pole with flasher setup. The bait was worms and also orange and pink power bait. trolling with 1/2 oz weight and also 2 sp...
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By: sarelvd87
Posted: 5/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Rented a boat for a few hours thought we would catch some fish. One bite was all we had. Got the bite trolling a flat fish on the way to the fishing hole. This lake is going to need some time to rehab...
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Posted: 5/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got out to the lake at 3:00pm. Got absolutely no hits until five-ish, I was using a bobber with a worm. I then decided to switch to powerbait (chartreuse) with a double hook set-up, and I got two very...
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By: reelman
Posted: 5/6/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Woooo hooo! Awesome day. Just bought a used porta-bote off CL. This was the maiden voyage. Left the 'toon at home and brought what I hoped would be my future fishing buddy, my 9 year-old son. Set ...
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By: T-Bone
Posted: 5/2/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
First trip to W. Medical this year; I love the natural beauty of this lake. However, I find myself doing a garbage P/U every time I fish it. Not a big crowd until past 8 am; my wife and I quit fishing...
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Posted: 5/1/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to lake at 10:00 am the weather once again made fishing very difficult, high winds do not treat a 12’ raft very good I really get blow all over when the wind picks up. However even though the weat...
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Posted: 4/29/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Very short trip but well worth being in the rain for the hour and half I was there. Caught four trout three being very nice chunky fish over 16” trolling a gold spinner. Rain got way to bad for me, lo...
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By: kevinm
Posted: 4/29/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out after work with a buddy, pretty windy and a little chilly. Trolling the center and west banks of the lake we had moderate success, the fish were much bigger than last year!!! Between the tw...
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By: lzfishing
Posted: 4/25/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We did not catch any fish but the people next to us had at least 20 good sized rainbows. we had a bout 4 bites in the 2 hours we were there though. i think we just didnt have luck. oh well. will try a...
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Posted: 9/17/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with my father-in-law at about 9:30am and stayed until 1:30pm. We each got one good hit a piece, but they came unhooked before we could get them out of the water and then nothing else. Gonn...
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By: Rexhungus
Posted: 8/16/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I started at West Medical by the 2nd loading area. Supposedly there is a nice size hole to cast out at about 20yds...I caught nothing for about the first 90min. Then I went over to the first landing a...
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By: bigboy
Posted: 8/15/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water ohhhh about 6:30 am the resort was closed so we fished from the dock.After fishing for a hour or so we caught the first fish of the daya decent sized carryover rainbow.We rented a boat w...
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By: mm6and60
Posted: 6/18/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
launched at 11am anf fished till 3pm....really didnt expect much but landed about 2 fish per hour and missed many more...first caught was an 8 lb carp that was a battle on 4 lb test...also landed a 20...
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By: amentma
Posted: 6/8/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the lake and had my line in at 6am. Waited about 10 minutes when I brought in my first trout...really nice 17 inch rainbow, great fighter! Casted out again and was having no more luck with ...
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Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing at West Medical with some friends. We all loaded on our pontoon boat for a day of fishing and relaxing. We went out to the far end of the lake just off the bank by the pump house. While w...
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By: Mackey
Posted: 5/29/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Today was an awsome day at West Medical. Lately fish have been hitting the frog pattern flat fish trolled at 13' at 1.2 mph. But today they finally were hitting muddler minnows trolled on my fly rod...
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Posted: 5/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well got to the lake around 6:45pm fished til 8:30 had multiple bites but they were very small short bites. Buddy did manage to hook 1 and bring it in was probably 13-14" rainbow he gave it to a coupl...
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Posted: 5/21/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Finally, a 5-rating from West Medical! Arrived at 0945, fully expecting not to catch fish until 1100 or later. Moved to the corner immediately west of the launch and dropped anchor in 8 feet of wate...
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