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17 - Rufus Woods Fishing Reports
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By: Gonzipheris
Posted: 5/24/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got a phone call about noon from my dad (I am stuck here on the west side cleaning my garage) who was trolling on Rufus Woods trying to land their last keeper of the day. According to my dad everythi...
By: hewesfisher
Posted: 1/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It's really hard to rate today's outing only a "3", because it was a "5" in every other aspect other than fish in the boat. :-)
We met Blufin Loui and his wonderful wife Cindy in Grand Coulee where...
By: lohans4
Posted: 4/22/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rufus on both the 21st & 22nd. Non stop action, but nothing huge. Largest was close to 3 pounds, but what a lot of fun. We were close to the pens in 15' to 20' of water & drifting with the curr...
By: hkempter
Posted: 11/3/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day on Rufus looking for Triploids and wound up with a cooler of amazing Kokanee. Wedding Rings tipped with white power maggots did the trick. Of all the things I've read about Rufus the f...
By: COPENSLAYER
Posted: 3/20/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all day and caught three triploids. Used a death hook/green blade and worm. The 9.5 pounder made up for the slow day!
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: Toby441103
Posted: 4/14/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived Sunday afternoon and fished below Seaton Grove for 2+ hours, no bites. Got up early the next morning and went down to pens. Caught 1 - 2# the first hour, then everything went dead. We tried ev...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/27/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
In between my walleye trips to Moses Lake, Potholes, and Banks Lake, I have had a few trips on Rufus Woods. The fishing has simply been outstanding at Rufus. Most of the rainbows have been running 2-3...
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: Goldrigger1
Posted: 8/20/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Rufus at the upper end from Seaton's Grove. It was almost 90 and the water 65. Marked triploids and walleye at 28' to 40'. I used small Rapala minnow shaped lures (3-4") in the very clear ...
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...
Posted: 4/28/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I launched at Willow Flats Boat Launch just above Chief Joe Dam about 10 am, there were 5 or 6 trailers but not a boat in sight they must all have gone up river. One boat launched just as I left the ...
By: Goldrigger1
Posted: 11/14/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I'm catching up on my Rufus Woods trips (3). This one is on Triploids.
Fishing was poor in numbers but great for size. I talked to the Colville Tribe inspector and many triploids were stocked in R...
By: baldginger
Posted: 9/26/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
First time on Rufus on the chief joe end. Did alot of marking and auto charting. Trolled bouncers and harness, slow death smile etc in black and gold and chartreuse. Caught 4 with 3 of them identical...
Posted: 10/15/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Such a beautiful day so I headed to Rufus Woods above Bridgeport and Chief Joesph Dam. Got there about 11:00 and there were a couple boat trailers at Willow Flats boat launch. I started with the usua...
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: lohans4
Posted: 11/7/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/6/2019
Hot Spots: 0
To say it was slow was an understatement. Not a bite one on 4 poles. We threw everything in the box & didn't get a bite. The only good thing was the weather & the scenery. Only one other boat that we ...
Posted: 5/8/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2020
Hot Spots: 0
The first time out 2020 and it was a beautiful day. The boat and my new electronics worked fine. I think I will like my new Garmin.
I launched at Willow Flats Launch above Chief Joe .
The lot was ...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 10/8/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We made a plan to target some of the larger Rainbows that this body of water is known for. Our target was elusive, yet we stayed away from the easy fishing, smaller fish close by the net pens. We rea...
By: baldginger
Posted: 10/31/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/23/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rufus Friday Saturday. Friday was nasty 35° and sleet. Bagged it after a couple hours without any good biters. Took a nap and got back out for magic hour and some night fishing. Still nasty rai...
By: DannyP
Posted: 1/11/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
4 of us stayed at "Cabin By the River" as we did last year. A very good trip and great accomodations. We fished two boats, 1 fished the upper set of pens nearist the cabin on Saturday, started aroun...
By: Fishrepellent
Posted: 3/4/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the delay on this report... it's been a busy week. We went back out Sunday morning. There were definitely less trucks parked at Seatons Grove. We motored down to the upper pens and talked to...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/11/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This is a fishing report for Sat and Sun. It was cool (crisp) but sunny and calm winds for our trip to visit the Cabin By The River and the Rufus Woods fish pens. Aaron brought his boat, which was gre...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/5/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
OK people, The RW trip between Omak Lake and Lake Chelan was much less eventfull, and turned into a show-up and earn your stripes type of day.We finally made it to Seatons Grove around 10:00 I believe...
Posted: 4/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Andy went up to Rufus to do some pre-fishing work. The can line was productive with Black Cone head Wooly buggers at 1.8 to 2.1 mph with a small wiggle fin in front. They made the run to the lower p...
