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17 - Rufus Woods Fishing Reports
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/7/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Unbelievable fishing at the pens....Friday took us less than a 30 minutes to limit with a total of 8 fish...All over 5 lbs topped out at 13 lbs...Saturday arrived a little later then on friday we limi...
By: allanwalker
Posted: 5/9/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Target Species: Walleye and Rainbows
Lake or River Fished: Rufus Woods
Date(s) Fished: Saturday May 7, 2011
Weather Conditions: all 4 seasons in one day
Wind: NW in the morning and SE in the afte...
By: tonktracker
Posted: 3/27/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Rufus for 1st time on Saturday near the pens so I'm told. We fished for 5 hours solid throwing many colors of powerbait and/or marshmallows with only 1 nibble. The boats around us were slow ...
By: RC
Posted: 3/7/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rufus Woods on Saturday and Sunday morning. Got are 8 fish which were in the 5lbs. range. Fished large slip weight with 24" leader to power bait. We bounced the bait off the bottom in 25' of wa...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 1/9/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Today was my long awaited trip with my good friend and fishing mentor Bluefin Louie down on Rufus Woods Lake to fish for Triploid trout. After meeting him up at big Walley's on Banks Lake we drove dow...
Posted: 12/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We left the Army Corp Launch about 7:30 and made the 45 minute run to the lower pens to get some triploids. Things kind of went in fits and starts. We finally bagged it with 9 fish in the boat at ab...
By: Mcfisherson13
Posted: 11/30/2010
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for a day after Thanksgiving. Air temp. was 24F water temp around 50F weather was snowing for the first half of the day then stopped and we had high clouds and some blue sky off in the distan...
By: allanwalker
Posted: 10/24/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Place Fished: Rufus Woods
Date(s): Saturday October 23,2010
Weather Conditions: Cloudy and drizzle
Wind: none
Ambient Temp: Low 50's
Water Temp.: 62.1
Water Clarity: clear 15 feet
Moon Phase...
By: allanwalker
Posted: 10/18/2010
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Place Fished: Rufus Woods
Date(s): Saturday October 16,2010
Weather Conditions: clear and sunny
Wind: light
Ambient Temp: high 60’s
Water Temp.: 63.2
Water Clarity: good
Moon Phase: 66% waxing...
Posted: 5/13/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After trolling the lower end of Rufus with minimal success Andy moved the gang up near the lower pens to fill out limits. Good old Pautzke eggs did the trick. What a beautiful day to hit Rufus. Doi...
By: allanwalker
Posted: 5/3/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all day Sunday with out a bite. drifted at 2.2 mph mid river, 5.6 mph up near the dam. Water was low and fast. Wish I could figure out Rufus Walleye.
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a tougher day but Andy eeked out a few fish for the Bargrover kids. Baited jigs under floats are what finally caught the fish that were willing to bite. Pounded all over the lower half of the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/22/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Just wanted to let everyone know, this was our first time fishing at Rufus Woods. So we were not really sure what to use, how to fish, etc. Before we left we went to the Ace Hardware store in Pateris ...
Posted: 4/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Palmer crew was nice enough to go to Rufus with us today. Andy skipped the lower end and fought rough water up the lake to the lower net pens. They trolled flies with good success catching and r...
Posted: 4/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We went up to Rufus to work on some technique. We snicked a fish of the "can line" near the dam on a cone head muddler, but it was slow. We trolled a few other areas near the pump stations as the we...
Posted: 4/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy went up to Rufus to do some pre-fishing work. The can line was productive with Black Cone head Wooly buggers at 1.8 to 2.1 mph with a small wiggle fin in front. They made the run to the lower p...
By: Triploids
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rufus Woods on Saturday and my dad, brother and me all got skunked. We saw about 6 triploids caught ranging from 3lb. to 10lb. Saturday was better. Steve got 2 about 7 or 8 lbs. each and I g...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/8/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff Witkowski of Big Dog went to Rufus on Friday with a guy. My report is tardy due to my attendance at the Spokane Sportfishing show. His buddy and he cast black wooly buggers from the shore up ne...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/5/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Pa and I launched from Bridgeport at 9:30 a.m. We took our time getting to the first set of pens and arrived about 11:00 a.m. The outside temperature was about 38 degrees, water temperature unknown. S...
By: Fishrepellent
Posted: 3/4/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the delay on this report... it's been a busy week. We went back out Sunday morning. There were definitely less trucks parked at Seatons Grove. We motored down to the upper pens and talked to...
By: Fishrepellent
Posted: 2/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This was our first trip to Rufus Woods. We fished next to the upper pens with a few other boats. The fishing was slow on the morning, but picked up after 12pm. We only caught the 1 fish, but it was a ...
By: johnny
Posted: 2/17/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
2 day fishing trip on rufus with my little brother. first day was a little slow. managed to catch 2 fish. one was 5-10 the other was 4-6. two others didn't want to meet us and let go of the hook. th...
By: hewesfisher
Posted: 1/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It's really hard to rate today's outing only a "3", because it was a "5" in every other aspect other than fish in the boat. :-)
We met Blufin Loui and his wonderful wife Cindy in Grand Coulee where...
By: charlie h.
Posted: 1/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hi Louie
It was great meeting you and Cindy , you guys are the Master Anglers of the Triploids . Thanks for the info on rigging up the jigs . This fish wern't interested after you left , saw one caug...
By: DannyP
Posted: 1/11/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
4 of us stayed at "Cabin By the River" as we did last year. A very good trip and great accomodations. We fished two boats, 1 fished the upper set of pens nearist the cabin on Saturday, started aroun...