Yakima River Fly Fishing Report – 5/24/10
Yakima River Fly Fishing Report – 5/2/10
The Mother’s Day Caddis really started hatching yesterday. The hatch was really strong from about 1:00 – 7:00. But, the fish were not too interested in rising for the caddis until about 6:00, well at least in the upper flatlands near Cle Elum. Nymphing was productive all day, big stone flies and dark caddis nymphs. We sight casted to a few risers throught the day, but that was the only actio on top until 6:00, when there were pods of fish rising. It is tough to through a nymph rig when you are in the middle of a big hatch, but with thousands of natural bugs on the water and the fish aren’t rising they are feeding sub surface. Flies: # 14-16 olive x-caddis, #14-16 black graphic caddis, #4 Pat’s Stone (Brown), #16 cdc caddis emerger
Yakima River Fly Fishing Report – 9/19/09
Upper Canyon- The wind was pretty bad today, but the fish were still coming to the surface. The cut banks with good structure under the water, inside seams towards the head of the riffles, and behind the bigger rocks in the middle of the runs were producing for us. We mainly fished dries and dry dropper rigs. The stone and royal wulff were working the best. for nymphs we ran a dropper between 10″ to 18″ below the dry. Flies: #10-8 Dark Stone Dry, #10-14 Royal Wulff, #20-18 BWO nymph, #16-18 Lightning Bug, #12-10 October Caddis nymph