Rufus Woods fishing is so hot the water is about to boil !!! 200 - 250 fish per day.

3 of us went fishing at Rufus Friday and Saturday, we caught over 450 fish in those two days!! Friday we came back with 5 trout and kept 6 Saturday. Pat caught a monster fish on Friday, using the same old pellet fly, barbless. See the picture, this is proof that you can catch nice ones with a barbless hook!!

We started out Friday fishing the shorelines near Bridgeport and in a few of my hot spots in the lower 5 mile stretch of lake but were catching only small trout so we decided to run up to the 3rd set of net pens and the day definitely got a lot better!! We had many doubles and triples on both days. The problem with fishing the pens area is that the fishing can be so good and the action so non-stop that one doesn't have much time for things like...lunch!! I actually found myself eating a sandwich while fighting fish on my fly rod.....I caught and released 3 fish in the time it took to eat a hamburger bun with ham and cheese!!!

We have refined the trout pellet fly a bit, using a better hook, barbless but a heavier one compared to the nymph hooks we have been using to tie the flies. We have been having a few problems with the light nymph hooks breaking with bigger fish or bending back a bit so the fly comes out. Still in a size 10 or 12 for the pellet fly pattern.

In two days the three of us brought back 78.5 lbs. of fish, that was 11 fish total. We may have caught a heavier catch but had to keep a few smaller ones because of the way they were hooked, even with barbless.

There were 7 or 8 boats in the area, most were trolling or using power bait.....and not catching that many fish at all, although one guy fly fishing did catch a very nice sizable trout on Saturday.

We also found that we were able to use a slightly heavier line, probably because the days were darker because of the cloudy weather. That makes it much easier when trying to fight the larger fish around the pens with cables and anchor lines around them.

There is only one thing I really can't stand about fishing Rufus Woods Lake...........the days get over WAY TOO FAST!!!!!

Added a pic of a motor home in a bit of a bind, this was at the very rough boat launch just below the southerly set of net pens. Be careful when using this launch, its steep bank there for putting in a boat. They got towed out Friday night.

All in all, another super banner day of fishing at Rufus Woods!!!