I made another trip to the net pens on Rufus Woods Reservoir last week. I have had great success fishing here this fall and wanted to some more of the triploid rainbow trout for my smoker. People love getting pieces of smoked trout over the Holidays, and I wanted to be sure I had a good supply. Rollie Schmitten and I launched the Bob Feil Boats and Motors Smoker Craft Phantom at the middle nets, and I fired up the Mercury 250 for the short run to the upper pens. I deployed the Minn Kota at the place where I always find fish and checked the screen on the Garmin. The image wasn’t encouraging, but we tried jigging on one rod and Power Bait on other rods. Nothing was happening, and I was blaming that on the fact that there was no current. They started the feeding machine and thought that would spark a bite, but even that didn't happen. When we got back to the dock we talked to other boats, and they had only three fish between seven anglers. The people that did the best were fishing from the shore right next to the launch! Neither Rollie or I got a single bite. I wanted to mention that I took the time to fire up my Mercury kicker before we headed for the dock. I have found that if you start your kicker every time you are out this time of year you will find it easier to start even int the coldest weather. It’s a good idea to run fuel through the carburetor that has the Star Brite Star Tron additive in it that removes water from the fuel.