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17 - Rufus Woods Fishing Reports
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By: allanwalker
Posted: 10/27/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rufus Woods on Sunday waether a little cool and overcast with spotty sun, Mid 50 int eh afternoon. Fished several rapids(former) with duble wammy wedding rings for walleye took home 3 and 1 ra...
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.
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: 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: allanwalker
Posted: 9/19/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Saturday fished from Bridgeport launch all the way to pump house 5
and only fish all day was a 21 inch nice fat Rufus walleye.
Sunday broke camp early and drive back to Grand Coulee and launched at ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/6/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with my Buddies Glenn and Jay on Rufus. We decided to do some late day walleye fishing on friday. The bite was pretty tough and after a couple of hours all we had to show was a couple of missin...
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: 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: 4/26/2014
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: 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: 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: CCTMark
Posted: 4/24/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Had another great day on the Columbia although it is becoming quite crowded. launched at about 0600 and we were off the water by 1400, right when the rain started. 50+ fish day, kept 18 eaters, with b...
By: avex
Posted: 4/25/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Was trying for Walleye up and down the reservoir. Mainly using slow death rigs and smile blades. Caught some nice triploids and a 17" 3.5 lbs Kokanee while jigging.
By: wmaxwell48
Posted: 5/2/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
No Walleye. Then we went to crank baits and the bite was on....for Rainbows. Limited out in less than 2 hours for 3 of us. Biggest was caught by Susan...she has a knack of getting the big fish. M...
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: 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: 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 ...
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: 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: 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...
