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17 - Rufus Woods Fishing Reports
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By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/27/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
In between my walleye trips to Moses Lake, Potholes, and Banks Lake, I have had a few trips on Rufus Woods. The fishing has simply been outstanding at Rufus. Most of the rainbows have been running 2-3...
By: Larry3215
Posted: 5/24/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took a break from slow fishing at Banks and tried Rufus Woods for the first time. Launched at the Seaton Grove ramp. The ramp is usable but the area around the ramp is torn up and there is heavy equip...
By: Walleye4ever
Posted: 4/17/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Rufus is low and had never seen it like that, bite was slow or I just did not know where to fish. Caught 6 awesome fish, 3 over 22 and all over 16. Makes the smalleyes in Roosevelt look sad. Wish I c...
By: Toby441103
Posted: 4/14/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived Sunday afternoon and fished below Seaton Grove for 2+ hours, no bites. Got up early the next morning and went down to pens. Caught 1 - 2# the first hour, then everything went dead. We tried ev...
By: GoingtoFish
Posted: 3/26/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry this report is so late. My son and I took a couple of buddies to Rufus Woods for their first time and we weren't disappointed. Arrived about 8am. Caught a couple recently released 1 pounders the...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 3/24/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
CF and I took Ken to Rufus to get his first Triploid. It rained heavy for the near 2 hour trip to the Seton Grove launch.The rain finally stopped as we dropped lines at Nespellum Bar at 7:30. We dri...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 1/2/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Al, CF and I decided to start the New Year by chasing Triploids at Rufus Woods. It felt colder than the 25 degrees we had in the open boat today but the hot fishing made it all worthwhile. We conce...
By: rossthebear
Posted: 12/28/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rufus Woods near Elmer City from the shore. We fish this nearly weekly and consistently limit out by sinking power bait a foot off the bottom. Christmas was no exception. The hardest part is th...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 12/22/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Dick joined CF and myself to see if Rufus could produce another great day for us. The weather certainly cooperated with sun, little wind and temps in the upper 40s. We fished the upper pen area drif...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 12/18/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
It was a hard decision for CF and I to choose today's fishing location. Lake Roosevelt has been outstanding for us the last month but good reports from Rufus Woods had us wondering. It had been 5 ye...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 12/7/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The cooler water temperatures have really turned the Rainbow fishing on at Rufus Woods. I have been focusing my fishing in the upper reaches of the reservoir fishing from the Seaton's Grove boat launc...
By: Jipper
Posted: 7/29/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rufus until 2 am got two limits between the 4 of us
By: allanwalker
Posted: 6/2/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Lake or River Fished: Rufus Woods
Target Species: Walleye Rainbow
Date(s) Fished: Friday May 30, 2014
Weather Conditions: Sunny and Cl...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 4/26/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Rufus Woods today and the walleye bite is on. Walleye are running 17-22 inches with bigger females up to and over 10 pounds being caught right now and released. We caught several fish on jigs th...
By: CCTMark
Posted: 4/26/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Glenn and I headed to Rufus Woods today and it was worth the trip from Spokane. We were on the water by 0515 and I caught a 20 inch eye on the first cast, so great start to the day. We fished jigs and...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 4/8/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Had 3 guided walleye/trout trips on Rufus Woods on April 5, 7, and 8th. Walleye bite has been excellent in the morning until about 10:00 AM then it drops off. The native rainbow fishing is off the c...
By: waltforce
Posted: 3/28/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First trip to Rufus Woods and first report on this site. Thanks for all the other Rufus Woods reports that got me started! Fished the lower end of the lake Saturday afternoon (the 22nd) , all day Sund...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 3/15/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing for Rainbow Trout up to 25 inches and 4-5 pounds continues strong on Rufus Woods. We hooked and landed 14 fish this morning in areas between Seaton's Grove and the Net Pens. We were pulling ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 3/9/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the upper section of Rufus Woods on Saturday, March 8th, for triploid trout. Fishing was very good from the Seaton Grove launch all way down to the first Net Pens. We caught and released over...
By: Ganno
Posted: 1/9/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Report is for three days fishing 6th trough the 8th. Cold and clear with no wind water temp 42 degrees snow on the way home on day two. Fishing from lower pens to the upper pens best fishing was foun...
By: eat-sleep-fish
Posted: 6/12/2013
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Took dad up to one of our favorite fishing grounds, Rufus Woods. Hit the water around 8 and ran upstream a little ways and began trolling back downstream, hitting the edges and current seams. Caught f...
By: tnafarms53
Posted: 4/21/2013
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I put the boat in at upper launch around 10 am. then took our 5 minute boat ride to the upper pens. We anchored in 4 different places for the 3 hours we were there and had only 2 bites al...
By: Clawhammer
Posted: 4/19/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
3 of us took off for Rufus Woods from Enumclaw Sun morning and fished at the second set of net pens all afternoon until dark and never had a bump. A few other guys would come and go but no one ever h...
By: SsendaM
Posted: 4/12/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This was a trip last year but I couldn't help myself, it was this same day and I just found these pics so I am posting them now. Mainly to show what we used and to show that winter months aren't the ...
By: afk
Posted: 12/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
First of all I was on business up the Okanogan and couldn't be that close to Rufus and not wet a line. So I really didn't get to give it but only 45 Min.
I fished behind the dam. I soaked powerbait ...