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Reports > 2026 > May > Thursday 21
Thursday, May 21, 2026
 
By Dave Graybill
 
My friends and I wanted to stock up on triploid rainbow trout for the smoker, so we traveled to the middle net pens on Rufus Woods. James Lebow launched his boat here and drove it up to his favorite spot at the upper pens. The plan was to get our fish and get back home early, so we started fishing with Power Bait. I got a fish pretty quickly, but the bite was so slow we decided to troll down below the pens with bottom bouncers and spinners with worms. This has produced both walleye and trout in the past, and Tyler Bergquist landed a 20-inch walleye below the middle pens. We checked out the last set of pens, and didn’t mark anything, so we headed back to where we started. It wasn’t a spectacular day of fishing, but we all measured our fish for the Rufus Woods Roundup fishing contest and will also be able to enter our Method in the latest Mission, telling what we used to catch our fish. Don’t forget to get the MyCatch fish app on your phone and sign up. You could win a fifty dollar gift certificate in a variety of ways during the Rufus Woods Roundup.