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By: Malottguy
Posted: 12/7/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fun but slow day with my kid at Rufus Woods. With a normal morning bite.
As for bait we where using Chartreuse Power Eggs(2) up on the line just touching the eye of the hook (we use size 4 ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
A few friends met at the Rufus Woods boat launch and we fished from shore with marshmallows & worms floating about two feet up from the bottom. We limited in about two hours. It was a nice day. The tr...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/4/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rufus Wood's searching for these big Bows people speak of. Went over Tue-Fri staying at Bridgeport state park. Fished on the Douglas County side. Found the trout to be very finicky. Switched fr...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Rufus Woods with 3 friends for some trout fishing, We got a couple 5 # fishing from the shore. Weather was nice.
This was today in the morning.
By: Anglinarcher
Posted: 5/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
OK, this place is nuts. I got off work last night while working on the Log Boom and decided to try for dinner. I cast in with sherbet power bait and had my first fish within 30 seconds. I bait up a...
By: dave g
Posted: 5/16/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
stopped by rufus on the way to conconully with my family on mothers day weekend. thought I'd give it a shot fishing for one of the big fish i keep hearing about here. the weather was pleasant, but a b...
By: Adro
Posted: 4/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took an out of the way trip to Rufus Woods on our way to Pearrygin. First time at Rufus (net pens) and had a great time. Caught a 14 incher and a 17 incher on power eggs off the bottom. Weather was...
By: beerman1981
Posted: 4/23/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Today was my first attempt at Rufus Woods Lake. I left Yakima and drove 170 miles through rain, wind, downpours and more rain. I had heard that the net pens were tricky to find, and that is true. O...
By: gpc
Posted: 4/7/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fish Rufus on Friday from about 9:30 am - 1:30 pm, with Gringo Pescador. The fishing was pretty much non stop the whole time we were there. The only problem was, the fish weren't monsters. I caught 15...
By: gpc
Posted: 2/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rufus Woods from Friday to Sunday. The entire place was packed. There was a t least 120 truck and trailers at the 2 launches we saw and the net pens were lined with people. It was a pretty slo...
By: northfork
Posted: 2/25/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Tough fishing at Rufus this trip.
Fished below the lower net pens. Not much currant this time. They hardly released any water from the dam all weekend.
Lots of small fish were being caught 12-16"
F...
By: TroutPro
Posted: 1/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
3 friends and I started the trip up to rufus at about 4am and got there about 6:20. As soon as we got there we set up are poles with 1 ounce slip sinkers, about a 5-6 foot leader and worm and marsh...
By: TroutPro
Posted: 1/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went to rufus early and threw a blue fox spinner for an hour or so hoping i could catch and release all day but got no hits on the spinner at all. switch to worm and marshmallow and had these two with...
By: gpc
Posted: 1/14/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Just got back from my first trip to Rufus and all I can say is WOW. The fishing is unbelievable.
We stayed in Grand Coulee at the center lodge (great place and the people that run the office are re...
By: CreekAngler
Posted: 12/22/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/22/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Rufus Woods lake for 3 days (Wed, Thurs, Fri) with my dad and brother. We went right above Chief Joseph Dam in between the dam and the boat barrier on Murphy Road. It was very cold probably r...
By: dave g
Posted: 5/27/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
this was our first trip to rufus woods and we arrived about 1500. we didn't bring the boat east with us, so we stopped at the first fishing area just past the dam. what a great layout. restroom, picni...
By: Gringo Pescador
Posted: 4/1/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Day three - got to the lake at 6am, only person there and fish rising all over the place, water almost boiling. I frantically threw everything I had at them and no takers. About 7 they abruptly stop...
By: jpjames14
Posted: 5/13/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Forgot to post this one up... I wanted to post this as someone might have some more insight. Are these wild rainbows popular as far as catching goes? This definitely was not one of the triploids fro...
By: tankorama
Posted: 8/3/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/31/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Took the family up to Rufus Woods and fished from the shore just up from the Chief Joseph Dam across from the Bridgeport State Park. We arrived around 3:30 and fished until 7:30pm and caught 8 triplo...
By: mud shark
Posted: 6/14/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Wow. What a day at rufus. We didn't get on the water until 1230. We were off the water at 3 and in that time we managed to catch and release about 20 fish each and there were 5 of us. The smallest was...
By: Why2Fish
Posted: 7/8/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I rated today as poor fishing. Fishing was great, fish caught everywhere from shore, but the experience was poor. It was crowded, with a family of rude, inconsiderate poachers and kids. If I ever g...
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: Malottguy
Posted: 1/9/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
WOW is all I have to say about today. Only got in about three casts before we decided Mother Nature won today. The three casts were out in fromt of the Tribal/ Corps dock behind the dam. I fished blue...
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: 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...
