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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...
By: goosegetter79
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...
By: raffensg64
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...
By: Landlocked
Posted: 5/21/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2009
Hot Spots: 1
West Medical Lake. This was the first time that I've been to this lake. I found a nice day use park area with plently of space for bank fishing. This day use park (at the southern end of the lake) ...
By: trevorweger
Posted: 5/19/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2009
Hot Spots: 3
My buddy Mark and I hit the water about 6:00 a.m. in the trusty Fisher aluminum on our annual West Medical trout hunt. We started out trolling original rapalas. Mark was using last years rainbow two i...
By: raffensg64
Posted: 5/19/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished W. Medical from 10:00 to 2:00. Arrived to find it windswept and white-capped due to SW winds at 20 MPH and even stronger gusts. Headed to the relative calm and safety of the west side, near t...
By: Liliarose
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the lake at about noon and fished most of the afternoon using worms and powerbait. Husband caught a large trout. At about 4:30 pm we switched over to trolling using roosters and wedding rin...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 5/17/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Wow...What a difference even a couple of days can make! My wife and I returned to our regular spot and she caught the only fish. I had limited on Friday and we both did very well the previous Sunday (...
By: SBcatcherman
Posted: 5/17/2009
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2009
Hot Spots: 1
We got there at 7, hoping to pick up a few rainbows before it got to late but after a while of no bites we all got in a bluegill battle!!! Right off the rocky point we casted 15 feet with worms and ha...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Arived at the lake at about 5:30 am. Fished power bait about 2 foot off the bottom. Laded the first fish before 6. Caught my limit by about 8 am. Was a nice morning, although a little on the cold side...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 5/11/2009
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I took my over worked wife on a fishing trip to West Medical on Sunday and we both had a great time. The weather was wonderful and the fish fought HARD. My biggest was a 4 1/2lb., 24 1/2" brooder rain...
By: flyguy1701
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
As with yesterday, black #12 Ice Cream Cones under an indicator did the trick. Caught and released twelve fish -- most of them around the 5:00 hour -- by varying my hand retrieve, sometimes in quick ...
By: rusty
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to west medical lake for a saturday night of fun with my father in law and youngest daughter. Fished from about 5:45pm to 8:15pm. Had lots of strikes but only boated 6 fish. Trolled hot shots...
By: flyguy1701
Posted: 5/9/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Used a black #12 Ice Cream Cone under a #12 Blood Worm for a decent afternoon of fishing. Decent sized rainbows took both of them, but they significantly keyed-in on the ICC. The ICC was down eight ...
By: raffensg64
Posted: 5/6/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the west side of West Medical with chironomid patterns from 9:45 until 2:45. Low 50s and SW winds at 12-15 MPH. Only 10-12 subtle takes until 11:15, with just 1 trout to net. From 11:15 to...
By: raffensg64
Posted: 5/3/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished W. Medical from 10:00 to 2:00. Water temp 53, winds SW at about 10-12. Arrived to find and incredible chironomid hatch ongoing and the swallows buzzing the water, scooping them up. The fish,...
By: SBcatcherman
Posted: 5/1/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got there at 7:30, fishing until 9. Caught 5 trout, one 18 incher and alot of ten inch stockers. Threw a medium sized spinner and my brothers used worms. I did better on the spinner. I had a hard tim...
By: SBcatcherman
Posted: 4/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at 9:30. Set up worm and mellow off the bottom 14 inches. Got bit in about 5 miuntues. The 11:30 bite hit, we picked up 8 then between the four of us. All stockers about 12-15 inches. Good fig...
By: T-Bone
Posted: 10/1/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
A rather SLOW last couple of days of the season; only two (kept) on 9/29 and five small ones (released) on 9/30. Most bank anglers seemed to be doing about the same. On both days, I did my normal and ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/14/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We went fishing at West Medical Lake today. My 6 year old daughter who hardly ever catches anything because she gets bored easily, had cast her pole into the water without thinking anything of it. Her...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/17/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/17/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Started out around 11am got a bite right from the start and pulled in a 11 inch rainbow that i would've thrown back but he swallowed my whole wedding ring and when i got the hook out some organs came ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing about 7:30 AM. Considering this is August 3rd I was surprised by the number of people on the water. This is still a busy place.
I was fishing Power Bait just off the bottom. I st...
By: DannyHoey
Posted: 8/2/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Launched after work around 4:30, just after a little rain squall. Trolling a wedding ring didn't produce even a bite. I switched to fishing off the bottom with worms and got a little action. I then...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/21/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/19/2008
Hot Spots: 3
Went out at 0830, lake was calm fishing was slow. Averaged a fish every 1/2 an hour. I troll about 3/4 of the lake from the boat launch. If you see the cows on one side and the tree's and rocks on ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/20/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Put in at the public boat launch. I paddled around in my float tube while my daughter cruised around in a kayak. She does not fish so she was just along to play in the sun and keep Dad company. The ...