I had a great crew on the Bob Feil Boats and Motors Smoker Craft, and we enjoyed a beautiful Indian Summer day on Rufus Woods on Monday. My long-time fishing partner Buell Hawkins arranged to have Greg Meiszner and Jeff Armaly join us. Greg has fished with Buell and I on Rufus a couple of years ago and on Omak Lake as well. This was Jeff’s first chance at fishing for triploid rainbow trout, and he was very impressed. Greg was also impressed with how quickly the Mercury 250 got the big Phantom on plane on the quick run from the launch at the middle net pens to the upper pens. It didn’t take long for Jeff to get the first fish to the net. We were just fishing with Power Bait on the bottom, and I will blame the lack of current when we got started for fairly slow action. Later in the morning the current picked up, and they started to spray feed into the pens. The bite came on, and we got more fish at closer intervals. The fish ranged in size from about 3 ½ to 5 pounds. Just right for the grill or the smoker.