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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 great because it's brand new and needed some good fish blood stains, LOL. The Cabin is a great place for anglers (or hunters) to visit. It's comfortable and has everything you would need for a fishing trip place to stay. The boat launch was a LOT better than I would have expected, too. As to the fishing - well, it was kind of tough. That said, we managed to catch around 18 pounds of fish on Saturday. And that was just 4 fish, smallest being I think 3 lb 10oz, biggest was Andrew's 6lb 10oz beast, his personal best. We caught 3 of 4 trolling mainly black wooley buggers. Andrew's was on a black spinner I believe. The 4th came on a sinking fly line which I had a small hook and (sorry about this all you fly guys out there) a power bait pellet. I know, the shame, the shame! But I was desperate for a fish and hey, it was pretty fun to catch a 4+ lb RB on a fly rod. Sunday was the strike out day. High point of the morning was meeting Blufin Loui and his wife Cindy, WL.com members, and watching them put on a clinic on hard to catch non-biting net pen rainbows (which they seemed to be able to get to bite just fine!). In any case, a very nice weekend of fishing. Now that I've been there I can first hand recommend the Cabin By The River as a place to stay, and best of all, it's just 4 miles from the pens with your own private launch. Check out the link on the Rufus Woods report page to visit their web site.

blufin loui

10/12/2009 6:07:00 AM

Nice fish Mike, Glad to hear another positive remark on The Cabin by the River. It is ideally situated for the RW fishing trip. With 18lbs of Triploid for the day, you guys made a good showing. Right now is a difficult bite as the water temps are warm enough to have a negative effect on the activity of the Tripps. It was great to meet you guys and see you in action.
Hope to see ya on the water again.

Dave

10/12/2009 12:02:00 PM

Hi Mike,

Glad to hear you had a fun trip. I've only fished RW once and found the bite to be very poor for us. My only trip was several years ago on opening day weekend. We fished RW that first day only catching one 3 pound fish and then fished Jameson the next 3 days limiting each day. Like I said, it was many years ago but I would like to give it another try one of these days, and I know many go there and do very well. Anyway, thanks for the report Mike. I am also interested in staying at The Cabin if I take the ride for another RW try.

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