Greg: Rufus Woods - 9/1/2022

The kids are back in school! After a couple months of pulling them and their friends around on a tube at the lake, I am back to fishing mode. In the past, I have had good success at Rufus Woods in late August into mid September. Unfortunately, I was not able to duplicate my past success during this trip. I landed 4 triploids and a couple of smallmouth. There were 2 hookups that felt like heavy walleyes, but both of them came unhooked about 2/3rds of the way to the boat (never saw them). I arrived at Seatons Grove launch at 1030 AM. Launching the boat was tough since the water level was down 5 feet below normal pool before the current picked up around 11 AM. By early afternoon, the river was near normal pool with current seams and back eddies. I am surprised that I didn’t do better. I only saw 2 other boats on the river the entire day.