Yakima River Fly Fishing Report – 9/17/08

Floated the Farmlands today with Barb. She owns and operates a charter boat business and this was her first experience fly fishing. After I got her into fly casting instead of gear casting we were getting our flies into the feeding lanes. We had fish rising to the #10 stone dry all day. She didn’t want to change the bug, so I dropped may flies and caddis off the back, but the fish, 99% of the time, took the big bug. The average size today was 12″ with one 16″er and Barb had a few opportunities at 18″+ trout. I’d say fishing is excellent right now. Big dries all day for nice wild trout with the opportunity to hook a big fish.