I mentioned that my friends wanted to make a trip to Rufus Woods to get some triploids for the smoker. James Lebow and Michael Ericson and I made a trip to Rufus on Thursday. When we arrived, there was a person fishing from the shore. He had fished there the day before and complained that all he could catch were small fish. A tribal parks person had stopped by and told him that the there had been a very recent release of twelve to fifteen thousand fish and that’s why he couldn’t anything bigger. Knowing this we decided to start above the upper pens, off what is known as The Greenhouse. I thought that we could get above the pens, where the fish are released and catch fish that had been in the reservoir for a while. We fished a while without getting a bite and headed down to the upper pens, thinking that since we were here, let’s get our fish and get on the road. We did. It took no time at all to get the six fish we needed for our limits. I would wait before planning a trip to Rufus, and let these fish grow.