I probably shouldn't be posting this report, since I'm pretty much furious after another hard day of analyzing and fishing, with the usual result of a skunking with no bites. I have multiple people telling me the Yakima is packed full of channel catfish. Thanks, with advice like that, I'll just stay at home and save my time and money. Just make my third trip for catfish, without a single bite.

Well if the Yakima is the Promised Land in terms of channel catfish, then I must be the most incompetent fisherman of all time. I've tried stinkbaits, I've tried worms, I've tried scented spinners. I've worked structure, depths, and presentation. I haven't had a single bite working that river, even below Horn Rapids Dam - supposedly the Pinnacle of the Promised Land - and at the mouth). How that area can be good for catfish is unbelievable to me - nothing but high current over rocks 4-5' down. No holes that I can tell, just the same structureless fast current over shallow rocks. Maybe you guys are all fishing 1/2 mile or further downstream, where the brutal current finally slows and the river starts to change course.

If there's tons of catfish in that river, then I must have miraculously missed every single one.

Count me done on wasting my time. I enjoyed catching channel cats in Lake Erie in the '80-90s - great battle and tasty to eat, but I'm completely cynical about catfish in this area. I don't get it, obviously...