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By: blufin loui
Posted: 2/11/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit RW around 09:30. Headed up lake to Pump #1 area. Cast jigs and spoons, and caught a small native rainbow (c&r). Headed on up to the lower most pens. Fished there for 2 hours without a single bite...
By: Big D
Posted: 2/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I had a chance to get some North Idaho family members out on Rufus Woods today. My sister in law and her boy friend showed up Friday night with rods in hand wanting to go fishing. They real...
Posted: 2/15/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Andy and Jeff took lifelong friends and fishing partners Albert Stubbs and Paul Batton fishing up at Rufus. With very cold water temps and not much flow they decided to motor up to the lower pens and...
Posted: 2/17/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Pete Cunningham was nice enough to fish with us today. With cold surface water temps and low flow, it was a day to motor up to the lower pens and get some powerbait down there. The bite was steady. ...
Posted: 2/26/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, with the weather front moving in, it was challenging to say the least. Mike Flotrie of Ferndale and fishing partner Traci Todd of Blaine were nice enough to come fish with us. With a stiff upl...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 3/27/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got back up to RW. Cindy and I launched at the corps launch at the lower end of the lake around 8:30 or so. water temp running 39*. We headed upriver to the lower pens, tossed the usual assor...
By: Fishalot
Posted: 3/28/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the upper pens with bait. had a blast fishing wasnt all that hot and heavy but the fish were all 5 lbs or bigger.used power bait all the fish were caught on the drop off right next to the bank ...
By: Malottguy
Posted: 4/3/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a friend up from Arizona so took him to my normal spot on Rufus. Fishing was not hot, but I lost one and he caught one. It was his largest ever rainbow at 8.77 pounds so he was estatic about that ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/8/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hello to all, a newbie here to share a recent trip to Rufus. I was there for 10 days through Memorial weekend. I am avid fly fisherman and have been fishing Rufus for about 16 years now. One of my f...
Posted: 6/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Today I had an afternoon off so decided to head up to Rufus Woods with Mr.Bluefin Loui to try our luck on a Fatboy Triploid Rainbow..
Launch at the Army Corp. Launch and ran up lake and fished Across...
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: Anonymous
Posted: 6/17/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Two buddies and I had two incredible days fishing R W. We fished Wed. and Thurs. The water levels were high with fast flows. We fished black jigs and the current seems and back eddys for fast actio...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 6/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
"Another day of "catching" on Rufus Woods. Cindy and I headed up to RW, and launched at the Corps launch right above Chief Joe dam around 1:30. Water temps were 58-61* and air temp around 78*. Light ...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 6/19/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
BOATS, BOATS, AND more BOATS. Then add a few more. WOW. It was like a scene from the West Side. Bosts lined up to launch, boats lined up at the "single" dock. But everyone was polite and patient, so ...
By: platypus22
Posted: 6/22/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I heard from the guys at Sportco in Fife that the fishing on R.W. was good. Wow....calling it "good" is almost laughable. I had planned on fishing Banks Lake, but I figured we were close enough to R.W...
By: donnadzitall
Posted: 6/27/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After hearing over the years and then again just last week about the hot fishing at Rufus Woods, my husband, daughter and her hasband and myself decided to take a Sunday and just road trip it (4 ...
By: Malottguy
Posted: 6/28/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I haven't posted a report in a long time so figured I would make my Rufus report for the last three days. To start it seems it does not matter the color of bait or artificial you use as these fish are...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 6/30/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
sorry for the late report but went to fish Park lake last weekend but the wind was howling on Saturday morning so decided to take the hour drive up to Rufus Woods and hit the bank below the net pens. ...
By: afk
Posted: 12/13/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Burrrr! I used multiple colors of woolly buggers that have produced in the past without even a bump. Every time I'd bring my line in I'd have to dip my rod in the water to de-ice the guides or the li...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 12/13/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Made a run over to Seaton's Grove Launch to fish the upper pens area today. Wife was working, and I had promised a coworker (Auggie) a fishing trip, so today was his day. He hadn't caught a trout over...
By: charlie h.
Posted: 12/17/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hi Guys
Slow day on Rufus today , I was the only boat on the lake at the pens . Saw a few guys bank fishing , didn't see any caught while I was there . My fishing partner caught his first Tripp today...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 12/18/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to RW after an AM trip to Wenatchee, Dr appointment, and arrived at the Chief Joe launch around 11ish. Tried fav spots on lower end but no bites, so we ran up to the lower most pens area. Started...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/21/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fish Rufus alot, thought I better start posting reports. Had the great pleasure of meeting Bluefin Louie for the first time. I'd seen him there before but never had the chance to talk to him. Great...
