A good friend of mine from Moses Lake, Michael Ericson, hadn’t been able to get in on the good fishing on Rufus Woods Reservoir this spring, but could come last Sunday. He, along with James Lebow and Ryan Harris, met me in Grand Coulee and we drove to the middle net pens to launch the Smoker Craft. The water was extremely high, and the current was very heavy, which wasn’t an issue with the 250-horsepower Mercury on the back end. We began looking for schools of fish but weren’t having any luck. It appeared that the fish had moved with the heavy current, so we ran up to the upper net pens to try out luck. We were marking some fish here, and the Minn Kota Ulterra was holding us even in the current, so we switched from using jigs to good old Power Bait. Fortunately, James had a good supply in his tackle box. Soon, Michael’s rod was bent with a nice triploid on the end of his line. It took us a little longer, but we headed back to the launch with our limits of fat triploids. Our next adventure will be walleye on Moses Lake.