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By: atroutfisherman
Posted: 5/20/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
From the Desk of the Troutfisherman, area host for the day park and boat ramp at Chief Joseph Dam.
This will surely get your fish oil (adrenaline) moving! The boat was out about 4 hours, returni...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 5/22/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a beautiful Day. Wife Cindy and I headed up to Bridgeport State Park to meet Julie (a friend of ours) from the west side. She had came over on Wednessday and set up at the park. We arrived at ...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 5/24/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Another GREAT day on the Rufus Woods. After a good day yesterday, we asked Julie (visiting friend from the west side) if she wanted to stay another day on this side of the mountains and we'd go fishin...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 5/31/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
WOW what a day on the water. We went to RUfus Woods this morning and arrived at the corp launch around 11:00, a nd had to wait in line as boats were inspected (equipment and safety) by Douglas county ...
By: Splitshot
Posted: 6/4/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from the south shore a few miles up from the dam. Stayed for a a couple of hours and threw everything at 'em but no bites. Nothing like last year.
At least it wasn't raining.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/6/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
WOW, what a weekend. This trip was a special request from my mother to get the family together and spend the weekend fishing for her 70th birthday. We arrived 6-3-10 in the afternoon, set up camp and ...
By: Alanger
Posted: 6/14/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
So we made another excursion up to Rufus Woods for Thursday-Sunday afternoon. It was the best weekend ever, caught and released many on Rapala's, flatfish, spoons, and we ended up with the big ones wi...
By: Malottguy
Posted: 7/9/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Was just a nice day to hit thew lake so good ole BluFin Loui took my daughter and I up to the lower pens on Rufus Woods. Day started off cool and comfortable. We used a couple different jigs and BluFi...
By: dave g
Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Everything finally fell into line and i was able to get over and fish rufus for a few days. we fished both saturday and sunday, from about 0600 til noon or so with the temp getting pretty close to tri...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Cindy had the day off, so up to Rufus Woods we went. Launched at the corps launch at Chief Joesph Dam, and arrived at the lower most pens around 0900. The ride up river was spectacular. Smooth water ...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Cindy woke up this morn with a gap toothed smile and a desire to go fishing. Somehow she lost a filling during the night (didn't swallow the filling), and will have to make a run to the dentist for so...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 8/1/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Cindy and I made another one of our Sunday rides (boat that is) up to the lower pens. It is a great way to get out and relieve some stress. With salmon running, there isn't much of a crowd at the lau...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 8/30/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
With the dropping temps, Cindy and I made a Sunday boat ride at Rufus Woods. The Air temp was in the upper 60s when we launched at the corps launch at Chief Joseph Dam, and the water temp at the dock ...
By: tcorrell
Posted: 9/1/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well we finally got out on RW's this summer. We usually fish it quite abit but have this summer. So Sunday after work we went out from seton grove. We fish for about 2 1/2 hours. Weather was blowing a...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 10/3/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Woooo Hooooo, October is here and cooler weather to follow. Man I love this weather. Sunshine (eastside anyway) moderate temps, and fall is upon us. Cindy and I took a trip to Rufus Woods to explore t...
By: afk
Posted: 10/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well as the old saying goes, If it don't fit don't force it. I guess I need to wait for lower water temps. I launched at the Corps. launch at 9:00 & pulled off at 5:30. Had an enjoyable cruise up to t...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 10/23/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry there are no Pics. Cindy and I had the day off, so up to RW we went. We launched at the corps launch (Chief Joseph) and headed up to the lowermost pens. The surface water temp was 60* at the ...
By: Malottguy
Posted: 10/30/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Did a early season trip to fish behind Cheif Joseph Dam and only had a couple bites. Tried different powerbait colors and the bites came one Fl Red nuggets with Charteause eggs.
Was good to sit and...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 11/5/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
First time out using Bottom Bouncers. Cindy and I have been wanting to do the walleye thing in the Upper Rufus Woods after reading reports for several years. I asked some of the members for some ins...
By: Big D
Posted: 11/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I took my son on his first Rufus Woods trip today. He is freshly discharged from the Air Force after several trips to the Iraqi desert. We put in at the Corps boat launch at about 10:30 am and headed ...
By: Ganno
Posted: 11/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at Timm Ranch boat launch at 8 AM nobody there no boat trailers or anybody fishing from shore.made me wonder about my decision to fish R.W since not many favorable reports have been posted fro...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 11/19/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
BRRRRRRRRRRRRR it was chilly out today. Cindy and I thought we would hit the Rufus before the temps plummented to the single digits, so after watching the morning pass with a cup of joe, we got on the...
By: Malottguy
Posted: 11/20/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Day was a bust but we did get a few bites and I lost one, so things are improving. We also thried bobber and jig tipped with shirmp, but the wind was just to much.
As for the wind a word of caution...
By: afk
Posted: 11/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After getting skunked for walleye below Wells we were ready for some action. We actually left the sunshine and drove back into snow flurries to fish. My fishing buddy had invited me along to try out h...
By: Malottguy
Posted: 12/4/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a break through. My buddy and I finally each caught a fish. Though not huge, well barely even small, they were 11 inches and 8 inches but big enough to fry up and at least they were fish. Ou...
