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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...
By: afk
Posted: 1/3/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had the pleasure to fish out of my buddy Jerrys heated boat. I'd never have lasted all day otherwise. We fished it hard. Fourth boat in at the Corps. launch in the morning & last ones off! Maybe we ...
By: sea-nile
Posted: 5/1/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Made a run for the lower pin area on Friday morning with the wife and the dogs huddled in the cuddy to keep warm and started fishing at about 0700. My wife had her first fish on an hour later, good...
By: gramps53
Posted: 1/23/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Second trip to Rufus this month. Wife had to work so made this trip with the good doctor. Arrived on 1/22 at 11:30 AM. Took a full 5 hours to land 4 nice triploids - 4, 4.5, 5 and 6.5 lbs. Needlef...
By: gramps53
Posted: 11/10/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for 11/8 and 11/9. Fished Rufus Woods in the afternoon of 11/8. Caught our limit in abut 4 hours (4 fish for two anglers). Method was trolling with downriggers 15 to 20 feet on the w...
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: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 11/4/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/2/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Rufus Woods is my play area as a guide! You need to have a Core of Engineers license to guide these waters. That being said, "the Colville fish checker at the Seeton Grove launch is rather lonely th...
By: wafisherman20
Posted: 3/13/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/11/2017
Hot Spots: 3
SHORT REPORT:
Hit Rufus in search of some big trout, and we found them. Started the day at 7:30, after 30 mins of fishing, we found the fish and had nonstop action. Fished all day pulling rapala’s a...
By: atroutfisherman
Posted: 6/17/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I have always wanted to get a record fish and yesterday I think I did! I caught a triploid of 15 inches and I am positive that is a record for the smallest triploid ever caught! I also caught a Koka...
By: jtwatso
Posted: 12/29/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at the Corps ramp on Sunday 12/26 at about 12:30 PM and made the run up to the lower pens (cold!). Caught two while up there, one while trolling a dark bead head wooly bugger and one jigging...
By: afk
Posted: 1/9/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at first light. Came off the water at last light. I woke to starlit skies at 4AM. The gravitational pull to Rufus was strong. Just above Brewster I drove under a fog bank that remained a...
By: afk
Posted: 12/13/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started out the day with my 12 year old backing out on me at 6AM. (Can't blame him, he was snuggled with his Ma Ma.) Then I realized 20 minutes away from home that I forgot to put in life jackets! So ...
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: afk
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I let my boys sleep in. We got on the water 12:00 noon. We trolled various flies without sucses. switched it up & got hit on Needle fish. Frog color or metalic perch were the winners. Both of my boys ...
By: afk
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Picture courtesy of my son helping me resize! And yes they are moving a little water!!!!!!!
By: wagnbrnr
Posted: 6/14/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
went to Rufus for four days of fishing , our best day was Friday the 10th . trolled with flys mostly , so we were able to do catch and release . plenty of fish to be caught that day . i would give you...
By: jtwatso
Posted: 7/4/2011
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Rufus is still hot. Fish are holding at about 12 feet. Trollers seem to be doing the best. Troll at 2.0 to 2.25 mph. We used a small flasher and a squid like tube bait with a smiley blade tipped w...
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...
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: 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...
By: sea-nile
Posted: 3/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Second day and just as good as the yesterdays report. Except having Pa out fish me. As seen in the photo, dad's rod caught our limit, strange enough we were using the same exact gear but his rod was t...
By: huntnfool
Posted: 3/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rufus 3/13 and 3/14. Had several hits by the lower pens on Sat but was not able to get one in the boat. Bad hook on the lure, never thought to check the hook. Weather was outstanding both Sat a...
