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17 - Rufus Woods Fishing Reports

17 - Rufus Woods
By: Honda
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Seatons Grove and headed down to the first set of net pens. Mainly fished the edge of the bar on the pen side. Were using mainly white tubs and just drifting with the current. Managed 5 tr...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: COPENSLAYER
Posted: 3/20/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all day and caught three triploids. Used a death hook/green blade and worm. The 9.5 pounder made up for the slow day!
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: josephp
Posted: 2/5/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/31/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was slower then last time but was still good. all fish were on either Red/White/Blue Powerbait or Nightcrawler and white marshmallow rig. We were casting spoons and rooster tails with no luc...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: hkempter
Posted: 11/3/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day on Rufus looking for Triploids and wound up with a cooler of amazing Kokanee. Wedding Rings tipped with white power maggots did the trick. Of all the things I've read about Rufus the f...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: Honda
Posted: 10/23/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late report!!! We launched at Seatons Grove and headed down to the top net pens. We started fishing around 7:30 and landed 7 smaller but nice triploids by about 1:00 pm!!! fishing wa...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/27/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
In between my walleye trips to Moses Lake, Potholes, and Banks Lake, I have had a few trips on Rufus Woods. The fishing has simply been outstanding at Rufus. Most of the rainbows have been running 2-3...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: Larry3215
Posted: 5/24/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took a break from slow fishing at Banks and tried Rufus Woods for the first time. Launched at the Seaton Grove ramp. The ramp is usable but the area around the ramp is torn up and there is heavy equip...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: Walleye4ever
Posted: 4/17/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Rufus is low and had never seen it like that, bite was slow or I just did not know where to fish. Caught 6 awesome fish, 3 over 22 and all over 16. Makes the smalleyes in Roosevelt look sad. Wish I c...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: Toby441103
Posted: 4/14/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived Sunday afternoon and fished below Seaton Grove for 2+ hours, no bites. Got up early the next morning and went down to pens. Caught 1 - 2# the first hour, then everything went dead. We tried ev...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: GoingtoFish
Posted: 3/26/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry this report is so late. My son and I took a couple of buddies to Rufus Woods for their first time and we weren't disappointed. Arrived about 8am. Caught a couple recently released 1 pounders the...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: fishindoc
Posted: 3/24/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
CF and I took Ken to Rufus to get his first Triploid. It rained heavy for the near 2 hour trip to the Seton Grove launch.The rain finally stopped as we dropped lines at Nespellum Bar at 7:30. We dri...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: fishindoc
Posted: 1/2/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Al, CF and I decided to start the New Year by chasing Triploids at Rufus Woods. It felt colder than the 25 degrees we had in the open boat today but the hot fishing made it all worthwhile. We conce...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: rossthebear
Posted: 12/28/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rufus Woods near Elmer City from the shore. We fish this nearly weekly and consistently limit out by sinking power bait a foot off the bottom. Christmas was no exception. The hardest part is th...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: fishindoc
Posted: 12/22/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Dick joined CF and myself to see if Rufus could produce another great day for us. The weather certainly cooperated with sun, little wind and temps in the upper 40s. We fished the upper pen area drif...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: fishindoc
Posted: 12/18/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
It was a hard decision for CF and I to choose today's fishing location. Lake Roosevelt has been outstanding for us the last month but good reports from Rufus Woods had us wondering. It had been 5 ye...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 12/7/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The cooler water temperatures have really turned the Rainbow fishing on at Rufus Woods. I have been focusing my fishing in the upper reaches of the reservoir fishing from the Seaton's Grove boat launc...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: Jipper
Posted: 7/29/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rufus until 2 am got two limits between the 4 of us
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: allanwalker
Posted: 6/2/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Lake or River Fished: Rufus Woods Target Species: Walleye Rainbow Date(s) Fished: Friday May 30, 2014 Weather Conditions: Sunny and Cl...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 4/26/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Rufus Woods today and the walleye bite is on. Walleye are running 17-22 inches with bigger females up to and over 10 pounds being caught right now and released. We caught several fish on jigs th...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: CCTMark
Posted: 4/26/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Glenn and I headed to Rufus Woods today and it was worth the trip from Spokane. We were on the water by 0515 and I caught a 20 inch eye on the first cast, so great start to the day. We fished jigs and...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 4/8/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Had 3 guided walleye/trout trips on Rufus Woods on April 5, 7, and 8th. Walleye bite has been excellent in the morning until about 10:00 AM then it drops off. The native rainbow fishing is off the c...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: waltforce
Posted: 3/28/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First trip to Rufus Woods and first report on this site. Thanks for all the other Rufus Woods reports that got me started! Fished the lower end of the lake Saturday afternoon (the 22nd) , all day Sund...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 3/15/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing for Rainbow Trout up to 25 inches and 4-5 pounds continues strong on Rufus Woods. We hooked and landed 14 fish this morning in areas between Seaton's Grove and the Net Pens. We were pulling ...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 3/9/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the upper section of Rufus Woods on Saturday, March 8th, for triploid trout. Fishing was very good from the Seaton Grove launch all way down to the first Net Pens. We caught and released over...
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17 - Rufus Woods
By: Ganno
Posted: 1/9/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Report is for three days fishing 6th trough the 8th. Cold and clear with no wind water temp 42 degrees snow on the way home on day two. Fishing from lower pens to the upper pens best fishing was foun...
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