Took dad up to one of our favorite fishing grounds, Rufus Woods. Hit the water around 8 and ran upstream a little ways and began trolling back downstream, hitting the edges and current seams. Caught first fish after 30 min, nice 3lb rainbow but figured we would thump them so released. Long dry spell, about an hour for next fish, small RBT, released. One more fish 20 min later, SMB, released.

Decided to run downstream of the Seaton Grove launch and fish just below the island. 15 min and dad catches a perfect 2lb RBT, in the live well. Little ways further down finally catch target species, 22" walleye. Next fish was the last fish of the day, dad caught a whitefish, released. Tough day, I am used to 25-50 fish days in the past on this body of water. We would run all the way to the bridge at Grand Coulee and hit the seams all the way back down to the launch. Not sure but I think the massive amount of water they dumped through a few years ago has done severe damage to the fishery. Always used to catch a ton of cutbows, rainbows, kokanee, SMB, and walleye.

We were using purple and chartreuse spinners and perch colored Rapalas, plug only caught one RBT.

Augwen

6/13/2013 6:21:00 AM

I was told that from Seaton to the bridge was a no fishing area. So you can fish up there?

CCTMark

6/13/2013 8:17:00 AM

I hit Rufus about a week and a half ago and it was also slow although I did boat 6 eyes in 6 hours; 3 at 21", 1 at 18" and 2 at 17". Most were caught near the island on jigs. Last year in the same area was fantastic, especially on blade baits, but this year has been much slower.

eat-sleep-fish

6/14/2013 7:12:00 AM

I have always fished upstream from the launch, never read or seen anything to indicate it is closed waters. We caught trout and walleye consistently on the edges for many years, not so much the last two. Nice trout they were, not triploids. The cutbows were exceptional as far as eating, meat as red as a Coke can.

eat-sleep-fish

6/14/2013 7:16:00 AM

We did well last year from the tip of the island angling towards the shore for walleye on worm/spinners. Same area this year did not produce anything for us. CCTMark, glad to hear you found some, great eats!

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