Yakima River Fly Fishing Report – 9/21/08

Rob and I floated the upper canyon today. This was Rob’s first time fly fishing and the wind did not work to our advantage. We were able to fight the wind and get our nymphs in the feeding lanes. The #8 brown pat’s stone fly was working really well at the heads of the buckets and along the cut banks that had good structure. A #16 copper john was our dropper of choice, but pheasant tails and prince nymphs were working too. There are quite a few fish stacked in some of the deeper holes, so I like lengthening the leader on the nymphs or swinging a streamer through. With the weather cooling some and that small storm that moved through fall fishing should kick into high gear. Fall bugs have started hatching and the fish are finally getting situated in the low fall water flows.