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17 - Rufus Woods Fishing Reports
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/8/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff Witkowski of Big Dog went to Rufus on Friday with a guy. My report is tardy due to my attendance at the Spokane Sportfishing show. His buddy and he cast black wooly buggers from the shore up ne...
Posted: 11/3/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We took a businessman's holiday and went up to Rufus. The surface water temperature was 59 early and warmed into the low 60's. We tried trolling without success. We then anchored around areas where...
By: Larry3215
Posted: 5/24/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took a break from slow fishing at Banks and tried Rufus Woods for the first time. Launched at the Seaton Grove ramp. The ramp is usable but the area around the ramp is torn up and there is heavy equip...
By: Walleyemark1
Posted: 5/29/2023
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/28/2023
Hot Spots: 0
Took my daughter for another catch and release trip to Rufus. It took awhile but we caught 10 eyes and 2 trout. 6 of the eyes were over 6 lbs including a 7.5 and a 7. Half of the eyes were males this ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: morrow50
Posted: 11/29/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/27/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This is for Monday thru today till 11am. Headed over from Marysville to Grand Coulee this past Sunday Eve to do some trout fishing from shore. Started out Monday morning and headed to Spring Canyon to...
By: Smelly cat
Posted: 12/13/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tuesday and Wednesday at the net pens and it was deader than dead. Fish checker said it’s been really slow. 3 fish caught in two days nothing bigger than 2 lbs.
I also counted 30 full servi...
By: GoingtoFish
Posted: 3/26/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry this report is so late. My son and I took a couple of buddies to Rufus Woods for their first time and we weren't disappointed. Arrived about 8am. Caught a couple recently released 1 pounders the...
By: mlgetbent
Posted: 4/6/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Just returned from an epic Eastside adventure with my sons and dad. We headed out at 04:00 for a 7 hour commute to my dad's hunting property in the Aeneas valley outside of tonasket. Our mission at ha...
By: kevinbe
Posted: 12/17/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Slow-
4 of us got there at 7:00 to the 2nd set of net pens. We went upriver from them as there were 1000 people stacked in there like cordwood. We had 2 fishing with 1.5 oz weight and worm and mars...
By: Augwen
Posted: 2/27/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We fished Friday and Saturday at the upper net pens. We were bottom fishing with worms and marshmellows. Nothing at all on Friday and caught this one about noon on Saturday. If it hadn't been for the ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/7/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Unbelievable fishing at the pens....Friday took us less than a 30 minutes to limit with a total of 8 fish...All over 5 lbs topped out at 13 lbs...Saturday arrived a little later then on friday we limi...
By: tonktracker
Posted: 7/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took the wife, kids, and grandparents to Rufus Woods and had a great time. We caught enough fish for a couple of meals plus a couple for the smoker. Fish ranged from 2 lbs to 7 lbs. The green and ra...
By: Clawhammer
Posted: 4/19/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
3 of us took off for Rufus Woods from Enumclaw Sun morning and fished at the second set of net pens all afternoon until dark and never had a bump. A few other guys would come and go but no one ever h...
By: afk
Posted: 12/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
First of all I was on business up the Okanogan and couldn't be that close to Rufus and not wet a line. So I really didn't get to give it but only 45 Min.
I fished behind the dam. I soaked powerbait ...
By: Triploids
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rufus Woods on Saturday and my dad, brother and me all got skunked. We saw about 6 triploids caught ranging from 3lb. to 10lb. Saturday was better. Steve got 2 about 7 or 8 lbs. each and I g...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/1/1900
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/9/1999
Hot Spots: 0
IT WAS OUR SECOND DAY FISHING.WE WERE THE FRIST TO ARIVE AT THE FISHING HOLE.THE WATER LEVEL HAD DROPPED A FEW FEET FROM THE DAY BEFORE AND THE WATER WASN'T MOVING AS FAST.I MADE A CAST A LITTLE FARTH...
