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17 - Rufus Woods Report
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04/03/2017
Bottom Fishing From Shore
Rainbow Trout
Fish Eggs
Red
Mostly Sunny
Hook & Bait
Morning
04/06/2017
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Just returned from an epic Eastside adventure with my sons and dad. We headed out at 04:00 for a 7 hour commute to my dad's hunting property in the Aeneas valley outside of tonasket. Our mission at hand was for my 12 yr old son to bag his first turkey during the two day youth season. When we were at the trailer during deer season we had plenty of birds in the neighborhood and passing through the property. We managed to bag a 4x5 monster muley and he bagged a whitetail doe for his first deer. When we arrived we spoke to our neighbor buddy Bob. He had great fishing g reports but the birds hadn't been around. Luckily, the ole man secured access for my son to hunt a Turkey farm!! The wild birds were becoming a nuisance and breeding g their heritage birds. He managed to bag a Jake and nearly had another. Sunday afternoon we took a trip to the similkaameen river to pan gold and managed to find a fair amount of the Yellow goodness. Monday we had reserved a cabin. At sunbanks resort to stay a couple days and Target trips on Rufus woods with a side of night fishing on banks lake. My son managed to catch a decent yellow bullhead and had an epic battle with a carp. We fished Rufus at the net pens Tuesday and Wednesday for fairly quick limits of trips for the four of us the largest came in at 3.7 lbs 21" the rest ranged from 1.5-2.5 lbs....Dandy orange flesh in most....An excellent trip that we will all remember! Hoping to head back for sockeye with a buddy in July


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flyfisherguy
4/6/2017 6:52:00 PM
Wow! Way to go my friend, looks like you will all be eating well for quite some time! LOL Great to see the young ones having such good success, I'm hoping my wife and I will be able to make it out there soon, we haven't fished Rufus Woods for about 5 years now. Tight lines!
vwfisher57
4/6/2017 7:03:00 PM
Good job dad! Thanks for the report. I will be on the east side soon, can't wait.
mlgetbent
4/6/2017 7:13:00 PM
Thanks guys!! Were just doing what we do!! I forgot to mention that the boy got to feed wild horses with a brand new colt. .....great,great trip and no sister to fight with lol
mlgetbent
4/6/2017 7:24:00 PM
FyI ...not a big secret but the current was running pretty good in rufus....ran nearly 5 ft leaders....chartreuse pb and mashmallow w pautzke egg. equal results for both
afk
4/7/2017 7:04:00 AM
Good job DAD! Time spent on the kids will pay off. Thanks for the report. Andy
snohawk
4/11/2017 11:51:00 AM
Great trip for sure, nice fish and bird, lasting memories for sure!
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