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By: blufin loui
Posted: 5/24/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Another GREAT day on the Rufus Woods. After a good day yesterday, we asked Julie (visiting friend from the west side) if she wanted to stay another day on this side of the mountains and we'd go fishin...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 5/31/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
WOW what a day on the water. We went to RUfus Woods this morning and arrived at the corp launch around 11:00, a nd had to wait in line as boats were inspected (equipment and safety) by Douglas county ...
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: Anonymous
Posted: 6/6/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
WOW, what a weekend. This trip was a special request from my mother to get the family together and spend the weekend fishing for her 70th birthday. We arrived 6-3-10 in the afternoon, set up camp and ...
By: Alanger
Posted: 6/14/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
So we made another excursion up to Rufus Woods for Thursday-Sunday afternoon. It was the best weekend ever, caught and released many on Rapala's, flatfish, spoons, and we ended up with the big ones wi...
By: Malottguy
Posted: 7/9/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Was just a nice day to hit thew lake so good ole BluFin Loui took my daughter and I up to the lower pens on Rufus Woods. Day started off cool and comfortable. We used a couple different jigs and BluFi...
By: dave g
Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Everything finally fell into line and i was able to get over and fish rufus for a few days. we fished both saturday and sunday, from about 0600 til noon or so with the temp getting pretty close to tri...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 7/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Cindy had the day off, so up to Rufus Woods we went. Launched at the corps launch at Chief Joesph Dam, and arrived at the lower most pens around 0900. The ride up river was spectacular. Smooth water ...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Cindy woke up this morn with a gap toothed smile and a desire to go fishing. Somehow she lost a filling during the night (didn't swallow the filling), and will have to make a run to the dentist for so...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 8/1/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Cindy and I made another one of our Sunday rides (boat that is) up to the lower pens. It is a great way to get out and relieve some stress. With salmon running, there isn't much of a crowd at the lau...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 8/30/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
With the dropping temps, Cindy and I made a Sunday boat ride at Rufus Woods. The Air temp was in the upper 60s when we launched at the corps launch at Chief Joseph Dam, and the water temp at the dock ...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 4/17/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We had been hearing so much about the net pens at Rufus we decided to give it a try, all of our other Rufus fishing has been the lower part of the lake down by Bridgeport. We had never launched at Sea...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 4/14/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Just a short report about a fantastic trip to Rufus unlike my last 4 or 5 trips. The water was extremely hi and running very fast and dirty but thanks to a fellow that showed me a new technique we cau...
By: flydoc
Posted: 10/25/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/20/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Hey Gang;
Don't know what's wrong at Rufus but something isn't right. Water temp: 61*. Pretty prime. Fished hard all day above Nespelum Bay. Not near the net pens. Fished all the areas that we ...
By: ElliottM
Posted: 12/14/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I went out to Brand'ts Landing on Rufus Woods early this morning but had no luck whatsoever. I was fishing two poles, one with shrimp and one with nightcrawlers. I had a fish on briefly on a nightcraw...
By: Fisheries24
Posted: 9/28/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/26/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rufus for the first time this year. I love fishing this part of the Columbia, so scenic and wild.
Fishing was not red hot but steady. There was no current so I trolled both up and downstream....
By: ElliottM
Posted: 11/25/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/20/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I fished from shore at the net pens site in the afternoon on 11/20/19 and only managed to snag gear - no fish. There were about 3 others fishing and no one else caught anything while I was there.
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By: igotfishon
Posted: 1/28/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/26/2023
Hot Spots: 0
We heard of this fishery many years ago and was on our fishing bucket list. A place fishermen dream of. Where triploid trout are sized of footballs and rival salmon when smoked. We finally made the ...
By: Smelly cat
Posted: 7/17/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Launched the boat late at 10 . Tossed and twitched marabou jigs 1 oz and caught and released 48 rainbows between two of us. Trout ranged from 2.5 to 4 lbs . Managed a limit of Walleye each on jigs as...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 10/23/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry there are no Pics. Cindy and I had the day off, so up to RW we went. We launched at the corps launch (Chief Joseph) and headed up to the lowermost pens. The surface water temp was 60* at the ...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 12/17/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Rough Day on Rufus Woods. Cindy and I had a few hours to spare, so up to RW we went. Today we were going to target the Yellow Perch. As we have caught some really nice Yellow perch randomly in the pa...
By: Old School
Posted: 4/19/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got started about 9 AM on Friday. Launched at Spirit Ridge and headed for the hump at the net pens to try our luck at catching triploids. The morning started out slow catching only 1-3 pound fish wi...
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 1/3/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Received a report of some decent Kokanee fishing on Rufus and decided to check it out. Decent was an understatement. Not knowing how to fish this lake I started out doing the basic Kokanee thing. 25 f...
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: Anonymous
Posted: 2/26/2008
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
was up at the fish pens also. Lots of people most fish were all small. Well fishing has slowed not due to lack of fish but heavy pressure being put on the fish from all the people. Have fun fishing w...
