Yakima River Fly Fishing Report – 8/16/10

We floated back up in the upper canyon today with Jim and Carter. We did an early half day float and just threw the big dry. We fought through some good wind gust, but we rose quite a few fish in the 8-12″ range and one nice 14″ cuttroat. My advise is to cover water. “Running and Gunning” has been a proven technique the past few weeks. If you get you fly in the feeding lanes with a good dead drift and you don’t get a rise, move on to the next feeding lane. Anchoring up and pounding water hasn’t been producing many fish, but if you do switch flies often. If the fish doesn’t eat the the big dry pattern you are throwing in the first two passes, they more than likely won’t eat it on the 10th pass either. Flies: #8-10 hopper variations (tan, yellow), #8-10 foam stone fly variations