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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I have in the Tonasket area for the last ten days. I fished Rufus Woods five of those days. This report will be of my last day of fishing. The previous days fishing were just as good as this day. ...
By: stryker17
Posted: 7/15/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The fishing has really slowed down, at least for us. Was on the water for 3 days and really had to fish hard for anything we caught. Put in at Seatons Grove and headed down past the 2nd net pens, w...
By: dave g
Posted: 7/27/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
finally the stars lined up and i made it over to rufus for 4 days of fishing. we fished thursday through sunday and had a great time getting fish to the boat each morning and being back at the launch ...
Posted: 9/8/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We took a gang up to Rufus to see what's happenning. We trolled the can line with one little fish lost. We plucked a couple from around Pump Station #1. We snicked a couple out of the area around t...
By: 23dannyg
Posted: 9/9/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We stayed at the Cabin by the River over the Labor Day Weekend. They have an excellent spot to stay while fishing Rufus Woods - we had a great time. We fished the net pens and caught our first fish tr...
Posted: 9/27/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted Sandy to experience our September fishing at the pens for rainbows and quickly catch some fish. We made the run from the State Park to the lower pens. The scenery was enjoyable and the fish...
Posted: 9/28/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Sandy and I liked the drive up, the quick fish and the scenery back down, we decided to see if we could duplicate the previous days results. We did! It was a beautiful 50 minute boat ride from the S...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
3 To 7 lbs Three days limited out
By: romanfishing
Posted: 10/28/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We hit the lake about 5PM after unsuccessful tries on Evergreen Reservoir and Banks Lake hoping to get limit very fast and go home to Everett. The weather was enjoyable/perfect but no current at all. ...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 11/1/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well it was a cold foggy morning that burned off quick and the fishing was quick too. First cast 5.8lb trout in the boat. Another 3lber in the boat on Toms next cast and we were jigging for a few hour...
Posted: 11/8/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Good Day at Rufus Woods...We caught most of the Rainbows Dragging Flies. We did manage to Snake a few by casting Spoons to the shore but most of the Rainbows were holding off the shoreline in depths o...
Posted: 11/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Today we had another outstanding day up on Rufus Woods.. Pulling Flies on the Surface again worked well but casting to the shoreline also was productive...
We fished the Lower Basin of Rufus today. S...
Posted: 11/11/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Another Successful Day at Rufus Woods!!!! The Bite was real slow the first hour then the water started to move and like a light switch the Bite came on...Trolling and Casting worked well today..Hooked...
Posted: 11/12/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Rufus Woods again today was great Fishing in the Lower Basin of the Reservoir..Pulling Flies and Casting Spoons worked today..The Rainbows were light Striking today but we managed to hook some real Ni...
Posted: 11/12/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff & Brian took the Kato crew out for some triploids. Caught some fish in the Timm's Ranch area on Worden Lures Super Roostertails then finished the four guy limit on bait by the lower pens. Big f...
Posted: 11/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well Jeff and Brian took the Cato Brothers out on Rufus again. What a difference a day makes! The bite came on strong. Worden Lures Super Roostertails caught some fish, but working jigs was best. ...
Posted: 11/16/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Rufus Woods again today was Good Fishing Pulling Flies...Morning Bite was a tough go but it did pick up good just before 11:00 am and continued good. Around pump 4 is where I found the Biters. Black W...
Posted: 11/26/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Today I was at Rufus Woods again today..The fishing was Great but the Bite didn't pick up for us until Late Morning..We did get into some really Nice Triploid Rainbows today. Trolling Wooley Buggers a...
Posted: 11/27/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
November 27th, 2011
Today was another Great day at Rufus with Banging some Dandy Triploids and being home by 12:30 am with Nice Limits..The Flies were the Key again today..Trolled the Fly at less th...
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: blufin loui
Posted: 12/17/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Rough Day on Rufus Woods. Cindy and I had a few hours to spare, so up to RW we went. Today we were going to target the Yellow Perch. As we have caught some really nice Yellow perch randomly in the pa...
By: Old School
Posted: 4/19/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got started about 9 AM on Friday. Launched at Spirit Ridge and headed for the hump at the net pens to try our luck at catching triploids. The morning started out slow catching only 1-3 pound fish wi...
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 1/3/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Received a report of some decent Kokanee fishing on Rufus and decided to check it out. Decent was an understatement. Not knowing how to fish this lake I started out doing the basic Kokanee thing. 25 f...
By: atroutfisherman
Posted: 10/15/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This will be a two day report. Monday was a day to remember! We limited in a little over two hours, with three Kokanee and one triploid. My wife caught the fish of the day, an 18 inch Kokanee. I u...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/26/2008
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
was up at the fish pens also. Lots of people most fish were all small. Well fishing has slowed not due to lack of fish but heavy pressure being put on the fish from all the people. Have fun fishing w...
