James Lebow and I had such good luck at Rufus Woods last Saturday that we had to go again. This time he brought along his friend Ashleigh Zibell. I had stayed at the Grand Coulee Center Lodge Thursday night and ran into a couple of anglers that were filling their boat with fuel in the morning. They told me that fishing was slow and that most boats were just getting a fish or two. I was worried. However, when we arrived at the middle net pens the water was up but there was a pretty good current. The beach we had fished last Saturday was under water, so we had to fish from the rocks. We cast out our rods, baited with Power Bait and settled in to watch our rods. The rod that we thought had the least possible chance of getting a fish went off and Ashleigh landed a nice triploid. We got off to a slow start but were getting a fish every so often. James and I had out four fish by 9:40 last Saturday, and we had our six fish by 10:00 on Wednesday. Maybe we were being impatient. Having six triploids of 18 to 22 inches and weighing 3 to 5 pounds on the stringer made for a pretty good morning. I am ready to do it again!
I have a big grin on my face posing with this catch of triploids on Rufus Woods last Wednesday.