Rufus is on Fire

[Ripper]

Went over to Banks Lake for the weekend to do some Walleye fishing. As an after thought I decided to hit Rufus Woods first on Friday morning. My girl friend is new to fishing and I wanted her and my son to catch some fish to get the weekend rolling. I targeted walleye knowing that we would hit plenty of triploids anyway. We hit some current seams where eddy currents are formed by land outcroppings, and even caught a few walleye when we could get our baits to the bottom. In fact Rufus was the only place we caught any keeper walleye. Banks and Roosevelt only put out small fish for us. But man oh man were the Triploids voracious. Sometimes they hit on the drop. We went back and hit it again on Sunday. We were using double whammies and crawlers at first, then went to whammies and plastic curly tail worms. We brought home 10- 3lb to 8 lb trips and released all the others plus 5 walleye to 22 inches. Pinch your barbs and use artificials and have the time of your life.

[wastickslinger]

shhhhhhh

[Ripper]

I keep trying to post more pics, but they are too big, can anybody tell this knucklehead how to shrink pics?

[BOWHUNTER45]

Man this used to be the best kept secrete ...all sheet someone will get offended by that comment ....no seriously it was but the word has gotten out in the last few years and we used to walk to all our fishin spots and now they are all posted up heavy because of all the people but their is a sheet load of fish to catch so go get em ...we might even go that way Monday or Tuesday.... GLAD YOUR KIDS GOT SOME !!!!!!

[carpsniperg2]

I keep trying to post more pics, but they are too big, can anybody tell this knucklehead how to shrink pics?

You have to open them in a program like picture manager or others then click options and re size them down.

[Heartsblood]

If you haven't found a solution by later this evening I'll give you a call - we're headed out the door at the moment. Good luck! I'd like to see yer pics!

[yelp]

Here are a few of mine!   

[Timberstalker]

Nice Fish Yelp.  Wow.

[Wacenturion]

 

[BOWHUNTER45]

Here are a few of mine!   

  nice ones ...yummy baked beans -garlic bread ...

[BOWHUNTER45]

Here is a few ...

[Ripper]

This place hasn't been a secret for quite some time. Sorry I'm making it even worse. I've been going over there killin fish for about 8 years now. It used to be a world class walleye fishery, but the triploids are making things real difficult. I'd like to see more folks go over there and thin the buggers out. It's a great place to take kids and other newbies to catch a bunch of big hard fighting fish. Like I said though, use artificials and oinch your barbs if you want to catch and release. Then you can be selective and only keep the bigger ones. I smoked up 5 of our fish the other day. Delicious. Got the new smoker all stinky.

[backyard bucks]

here is a couple.. we had our limit in about 40 mins today..

 

[BOWHUNTER45]

here is a couple.. we had our limit in about 40 mins today..

 

Thats awesome ... I think I best head that way and not come back....

[BOWHUNTER45]

This place hasn't been a secret for quite some time. Sorry I'm making it even worse. I've been going over there killin fish for about 8 years now. It used to be a world class walleye fishery, but the triploids are making things real difficult. I'd like to see more folks go over there and thin the buggers out. It's a great place to take kids and other newbies to catch a bunch of big hard fighting fish. Like I said though, use artificials and oinch your barbs if you want to catch and release. Then you can be selective and only keep the bigger ones. I smoked up 5 of our fish the other day. Delicious. Got the new smoker all stinky.

Seriously what am I saying wrong that always seems to cause conflict ( I said USED TO BE THE BEST KEPT SECRETE ) Thats it