I've made a couple more trips up to Rufus Woods and have had good fishing both times. Not the red hot fishing I had at the net pens on my first trip, but my fishing buddies and I came home with a cooler so heavy it was hard to lift.

Fishing without bait, we were able to keep triploid rainbow that weighed from 4 to 8 pounds. When the fish are in a biting mood it doesn't seem to matter what you are using. We have taken fish on Worden's Vibric Rooster Tail spinners, the number 7 Rapala in the purplescent color, and black Wooly Bugger flies.

When fishing with a piece of nightcrawler, the Macks Lure Kokanee Pro is hard to beat. I have run up as far as the net pens to find concentrations of triploids, but they can now be caught in good numbers just a few miles up the river. You don't have to be deep. A few split shots will get your Wooly Bugger into the strike zone. Even casting sink tip fly lines will work. The best trolling speed seems to be about 1.2. Get on this soon. Hard to tell how long it will last.