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Posted: 1/11/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Thanks to the Duckworth gang for going to Rufus with us on a breezy day. Getting up to the lower set of pens was easy. The bite was on early then tailed off later in the day as the harsh breeze blew...
Posted: 12/19/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took Tim Meade and his buddies up to work over some triploids with his jiggin' technique. They caught some nice fish and had some wildlife viewing opportunities. Sight fishing like this can be ...
Posted: 12/20/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well we had a great trip up to Rufus today. We took the Pautzke crew up to the lower pens for some triploid catching. Jeff's jigging technique was very productive for some catch and release work. P...
Posted: 11/12/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff & Brian took the Kato crew out for some triploids. Caught some fish in the Timm's Ranch area on Worden Lures Super Roostertails then finished the four guy limit on bait by the lower pens. Big f...
Posted: 11/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well Jeff and Brian took the Cato Brothers out on Rufus again. What a difference a day makes! The bite came on strong. Worden Lures Super Roostertails caught some fish, but working jigs was best. ...
Posted: 12/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took Yakima writer, Rob Phillips, his son Kyle and my good buddy Al Brooks up to the lower pens to work on some technique with Jeff. Ended up catching fish on rainbow dough bait. Early, the current ...
Posted: 4/17/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
As follow up to Mike's report. We caught fish on Pautzke's Fire Bait in American Wildfire and Mallow Balls O' Fire. We also used the Marshmallow and worm trick. Slip sinkers with a 30" leader worke...
Posted: 9/15/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff and Ray took the Bill and Sue Hays up to Rufus. They started at the Lower Pens and fished Fire Bait to catch a couple of nice fish. Then they moved downlake and trolled spinners and flies to ca...
Posted: 12/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took Al and his buddies for a day up at Rufus to catch some triploids. They worked the lower net pens with bait and jigs. Jig fishing was more successful. The old casting standy, Worden Lures ...
Posted: 1/3/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We ran a trip up to the lower net pens to celebrate the New Year. The trip up was kooky with heavy fog. At times visibility was well under 50 feet. As soon as we got there, the fish cooperated. Li...
Posted: 4/21/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/20/2012
Hot Spots: 1
John Arnott brought his boy, Sammy out with us again. This time to celebrate his 12th birthday. We still fished Roses for rainbows. Pautzke's Fire Bait in Mallow Balls O' Fire worked best. In addi...
Posted: 5/12/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Mark and Kevin Stennes brought their lovely girls over for a lap around Roses and a barbecue. The catching wasn't that great, but the girls had a ball playing with worms and being the center of Sandy...
Posted: 4/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Black Cone head wooly buggers behind a small clear action disk by Wiggle fine worked best. The East end of the lake was the most productive. Donn Vey of Manson came out with me to harrass Jaime with...
Posted: 4/19/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I got to take my neighbor and fish smoker extraordinaire, Donn Vey and D&D CFO, Sandra Jones out for rainbow limits on Roses. It's about as good as it gets now. We were fishing bait so we took what ...
Posted: 5/13/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted to work on some light tackle trolling technique for those acrobatic Wapato Lake 'Bows so invited Pepe' and Al out. We worked the drop off the cattails at the Kamei end of the pond in depths ...
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a tougher day but Andy eeked out a few fish for the Bargrover kids. Baited jigs under floats are what finally caught the fish that were willing to bite. Pounded all over the lower half of the...
Posted: 5/13/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After trolling the lower end of Rufus with minimal success Andy moved the gang up near the lower pens to fill out limits. Good old Pautzke eggs did the trick. What a beautiful day to hit Rufus. Doi...
Posted: 5/9/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Mike Wilson of the bustling metropolis of Spangle managed to get his aging body out of bed to go fishing with Sebastian and me. We limited in about 2 hours of fishing. Little 1/8 ounce Chartreuse Ro...
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...
Posted: 4/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We went up to Rufus to work on some technique. We snicked a fish of the "can line" near the dam on a cone head muddler, but it was slow. We trolled a few other areas near the pump stations as the we...
Posted: 12/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We left the Army Corp Launch about 7:30 and made the 45 minute run to the lower pens to get some triploids. Things kind of went in fits and starts. We finally bagged it with 9 fish in the boat at ab...
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...
Posted: 4/12/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Palmer crew was nice enough to go to Rufus with us today. Andy skipped the lower end and fought rough water up the lake to the lower net pens. They trolled flies with good success catching and r...
Posted: 11/4/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff and Pepe' took Pep's wife Tevi and a couple of their grandkids (Xavier & Isaac) out to take advantage of the recent rainbow plant on Roses Lake. It was easy pickin's for everyone for planter rai...
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The little F7 purple glow flatfish on the outrigger rods scored biggest for this morning trip. Two passes on the Bar yielded 3 decent fish so we faded into the flat. It was pretty good. We added 5 ...
