Yakima River Fly Fishing Report – 8/8/10

We were in the upper canyon again and the hoppers have been fishing good. We did a half day this evening, 5:00-dark. The wind was whipping, but Charles and Will tougheded it out and found some nice rainbows. It was slow at the start, hooked a few on the nymph dropper, but it was not like it had been. It really turned on about one and a half hours before dark. We found a few big fish looking up, they were chasing it down stream and exploding on it. The dropper was not too effective, we hit some fish on it, but most of them were small. We were running a single big dry and getting it tight to the bank and in the short slots between trees and brush. Flies: #8-10 hopper variations (tan, yellow), #8-10 Chernoble Ant variations (yellow, purple, tan), #10-14 CDC Prince, #10-14 Prince, #14-16 X Caddis (tan, olive)