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17 - Rufus Woods Fishing Reports
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By: fishindoc
Posted: 2/13/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/13/2018
Hot Spots: 0
It was time to give Rufus Woods another go after a couple of poor outings in December and January. Al and I launched at Seton Grove and had lines in the water at 7:30 near the upper net pens. We had...
By: coverdell79
Posted: 3/9/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
got on the water around 8 o'clock and had a big takedown within the first 5 minutes. apparently he wasn't real hungry as it was a one and done. put on a fresh bait and cast back out and had a bite a...
By: Waderjs
Posted: 3/12/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Rufus Woods Saturday to try to catch a few Walleye. We thought we were Walleye fishing but apparently we were trout fishing because that's all we could catch. Spent most of the day trolling ov...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 3/12/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/12/2018
Hot Spots: 0
No Al and no big fish.
The boat's first return to Rufus after Al's 18-10 fish last month. CF and I had lines in the water by 7:15 with good current on Nespelum Bar. A beautiful sunny day was the ...
By: Carmanrandy
Posted: 3/19/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Like a previous poster, my fishing partner and I targeted walleyes. We caught none. We did catch a bunch of rainbows, including a couple wild fish. Lost a large rainbow at the boat, definitely a 7-10l...
By: CCTMark
Posted: 4/3/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day for me at Rufus. My first outing of the year there and it is still a bit early for the walleye bite. The full moon probably didn't help either. I launched at Seaton's Grove and went down to ...
Posted: 4/28/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I launched at Willow Flats Boat Launch just above Chief Joe Dam about 10 am, there were 5 or 6 trailers but not a boat in sight they must all have gone up river. One boat launched just as I left the ...
By: CCTMark
Posted: 5/30/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Rufus on Sunday to avoid the crowds on Roosevelt. On the water by 1400 and had the first eye on my second cast; ended up being the biggest fish of the day at 6 lbs. She was a spawned out hen ...
By: Goldrigger1
Posted: 5/31/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This report is way late- sorry. I fished mid April in water about 45 degrees. I used a worm harness with slow death hook. Orange smile blade outfished green. I caught most fish around the island, but ...
By: baldginger
Posted: 9/26/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
First time on Rufus on the chief joe end. Did alot of marking and auto charting. Trolled bouncers and harness, slow death smile etc in black and gold and chartreuse. Caught 4 with 3 of them identical...
Posted: 10/15/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Such a beautiful day so I headed to Rufus Woods above Bridgeport and Chief Joesph Dam. Got there about 11:00 and there were a couple boat trailers at Willow Flats boat launch. I started with the usua...
By: Goldrigger1
Posted: 11/14/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/8/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I hadn't been to Rufus in months. I had to troll and move around to try to find them with the water at 56 degrees. Walleye were deep. I could see them but not catch any when I went to jigging and worm...
By: Goldrigger1
Posted: 11/14/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I'm catching up on my Rufus Woods trips (3). This one is on Triploids.
Fishing was poor in numbers but great for size. I talked to the Colville Tribe inspector and many triploids were stocked in R...
By: nc
Posted: 3/28/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/23/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Jigged, pulled worm harness and plugs around Nespelem bar with not a bite, saw 3 fish caught water was 37 degrees
Posted: 4/10/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2019
Hot Spots: 0
First trip of 2019, and as usual I headed to Rufus Woods, just above Chief Joesph Dam. I launched at Willow Flats public launch about 9:00 am one other truck and trailer was there.
I started out tr...
By: CCTMark
Posted: 4/12/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/11/2019
Hot Spots: 0
For the first time in a couple of years I got skunked; luckily my buddy Jay caught 2 trout and 1 nice 21" walleye.
The water level is down about 8-10' and there is very little current; both are ba...
By: walleyemark
Posted: 5/26/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I took my buddy Jay, his truck & my boat, and his cousin Adam to Rufus. The morning started out with a bang and within the first hour we had caught 5 eyes and lost two others. I had the hot hand and w...
By: walleyemark
Posted: 6/3/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Had to try one more weekend at Rufus to see of we could catch any more large fish before the spawn is over. We launched while it was still dark thinking we might be able to catch some eyes in the dark...
By: Mcfisherson13
Posted: 10/31/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/20/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Wow! What a day! Caught 3 fish. Done by 2pm after starting at first light.
I gave it a 5 not because of the 7 hours it took me to catch my two small fish, but I gave it a 5 because of the day I got ...
By: LordoftheFlies
Posted: 11/4/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/2/2019
Hot Spots: 0
The second day of fishing at Rufus Woods, First fish I have ever caught there.
I love how remote the water is there. Saw maybe 4 other boats on the water all day.
Super slow fishing for walleye, I d...
By: lohans4
Posted: 11/7/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/6/2019
Hot Spots: 0
To say it was slow was an understatement. Not a bite one on 4 poles. We threw everything in the box & didn't get a bite. The only good thing was the weather & the scenery. Only one other boat that we ...
By: baldginger
Posted: 11/10/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/9/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Long grinder of a day on Rufus. Pretty typical. Whacked a big trout by the pens on a hand tied jig. Struggled on the walleye but we found a few biters eventually.
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 11/25/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/21/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Day started off well with a couple hits and one fish in the kayak on a blade bait in the first half hour but then slowed considerably over the next few hours. I scratched out a couple fish primarily o...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 2/13/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/7/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Took my wife out for some late winter Walleye. Air and water temps were in the mid-30's. The bite was consistent but far from red hot. Flows and water levels in Rufus Woods have been particularly erra...
Posted: 2/18/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/16/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Left my house at 4 and met a friend in Airway heights. Then we proceeded to drive through the freezing fog until we rolled into the Rufus and launched just after daylight. We targeted 20-45 FOW for m...
