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We headed over the pass in hopes of another great trip to Rufus Woods on Friday. Friday evening we got there and the wind was blowing pretty good and we only had a few hours so we launched in between the 2nd and 3rd set of pens and decided to just go anchor up next to the pens. We had one on with a darker colored jointed Rapala but lost it. That was the extent of our luck on Friday.

Saturday morning we had high hopes of cruising down below the pens to troll the banks. We trolled black and olive colored wooly buggers behind a wigglefin for a bit with no luck. Then my buddy switched back to a jointed Rapala and we trolled one or the other or a combination of both 'til about 10 AM with absolutely no luck. We set the anchor for a bit and tried a jig, then a rooster tail, then a super duper and a couple other Rapala's with no luck. We decided to "lower" ourselves to fishing bait for the rest of the afternoon so we ran back up to the upper pens to anchor up and soak some dough. About 10 minutes in to throwing the peach colored power bait with a little corn dip on it I caught this 12 lb 4 oz fish in the picture.

Fishing seamed slow everywhere so we pretty much decided that was what we would do for the rest of the weekend. We ended up catching 9 total between 4 of us on Saturday and about 10 AM Sunday when we decided to pack up. All in all it wasn't a bad trip and I will take a 12 # rainbow any day of the week.

Tight lines to all!!!

Big D

4/5/2010 10:26:00 AM

Nice lookin fish. It sounds like the trip was worth it. Thanks for the report & photo.

MotoBoat

4/5/2010 2:10:00 PM

How was the wind on Sat and Sun, as bad as Friday night, And, what size were the other 8 RW trips? Thanks for sharing.

fishnw

4/5/2010 3:15:00 PM

MotoBoat, the wind was somewhat non existent until I would say 1 or 2 in the afternoon on Saturday and then kicked up like crazy. It got pretty nasty out there until about 6 when the wind went away again. On Sunday we fished for just over 3 hours and wind was not an issue. The other 8 fish we caught, 7 of them were between 5-8 lbs and we caught 1 native fish that we didn't weigh but it was 21" long. I would bet right around 2 lbs., gorgeous fish though.

fish2live

4/5/2010 4:32:00 PM

Wow that's a nice fish! Good Job!

afk

4/5/2010 7:25:00 PM

Hey fishnw, you tried flies, hardware& plugs. What else are you to do? You came to catch fish. And catch fish you did! Good lookin' fish. Thanks for the report.

Fish3G

4/5/2010 9:00:00 PM

Nice fish Bro! Figured I might as well join while I was scoping out the report and pics!

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