I have wanted to get up to Rufus Woods Reservoir and fish near the net pens for some time. I had heard some good reports about the fishing for triploid rainbow trout up there and was eager to try it for myself. Last Tuesday my fishing buddies James Lebow and Michael Erickson launched my boat at the Colville Net Pens site and ran up the shore to an area that I have fished many times. We wanted to try trolling crank baits here and fish without bait. This just didn’t work out well. We trolled a long path up above the net pens, across the bank up there and then across the lower edge of the Nespelem Bar. We did get one fish doing this but decided to switch to our tried and true method of fishing Power Bait off the bottom. We started right below the upper pen and got a couple, then ran down and tried it below the middle pens. Getting no bites here we ran back up to the upper pen. The current was so absent that we didn’t even need to put the boat in Stop Lock on the bow mount. We got a couple more fish and called it a day. We had four nice triploids weighing from about 3 ½ to 6 pounds in the cooler. The next stop for these fish is the smoker!