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By: Hoochie King
Posted: 10/1/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/30/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Howard Amen Park at around 6:30 am. Picked up a couple Jacks in the first 30 minutes or so until sun up, and a few good hits but no hookups. Had no action on the river for about 3 hours an...
By: swies
Posted: 11/18/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/17/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Hit Smiley Rock (Pac-Man) above the Roza after work with a long time friend. 1st bite in 10 minutes. Ended up at 6 bites between us, 2 10" rainbows and another at 16". All were released easy for anoth...
By: swies
Posted: 10/19/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/18/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Tried Fly Fishing for the first time...
Little back story.
My Father-in-Law was going thru his basement and found a stack of rods, 5 tackle boxes and a box of reels that were his dads. (My Wife's Gr...
By: Spaceyak1000
Posted: 9/27/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Yakima river above the Horn Rapids Damn. I paddled upstream from my launch about 2 miles. I found a pool full of smallmouth. I caught over 40 fish. Most of these were small fish u...
By: rojomojo
Posted: 5/16/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/14/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went for Northern Pike Minnow in the delta with only wind and sideways rain to show for it. I tried to go further up stream just below the 240 bridge with not a bump but less weather. Pulled the ancho...
By: tframe
Posted: 3/27/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
With the weather so nice decided to head over to the Yakima and hike the john wayne trail across from hwy 10 east of cle elum. Fishing was excellent where I could access the river. A lot of bush wha...
By: tframe
Posted: 1/25/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to switch things up a bit and go after some trout on the upper Yakima while the westside rivers come back into shape. Fished the upper Yakima above the confluence with the cle elum river and ...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 12/11/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This is perfect winter fishing weather on the Yakima. The fishing has been good to great depending on the day. Streamers on the retrieve and swing has definitely been worthy. In addition the nymphing...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 11/18/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/17/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The Yakima continues to fish well....Streamers and nymphing lead the way!
The cooling water temps have definitely slowed most bug activity. We will see Midge, light Baetis and small winter stone a...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 7/16/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Yakima River in Kittitas County
We definitely have our summer flows now on the Yakima. The fishing has been 'pretty darn' good considering the heat. The big flow doesn't pose a problem as long as...
By: jbball50
Posted: 6/28/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to go fishing closer to home today for some smallmouth because when I woke up with my alarm set for 2:30 AM to go drive to go crappie fishing I went back to sleep. So I went to the Yakima R...
By: TheKastMaster
Posted: 6/24/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great weekend out camping and fishing with my brother. Started out Friday after work going over Stevens pass to the wenatchee river in hopes of some chinook but talked to a few people and heard ...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 6/22/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The entire system has been fishing worthy. The upper river seems to have a better edge lately. Overall the insect activity has slowed quite a bit recently and will most likely be a little light over t...
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/7/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well, thought I'd take a break from studying my thermodynamics and physical chemistry, and give the Yakima one last whirl. I've spent three years trying (two years trying hard) to figure out the catf...
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/5/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/5/2014
Hot Spots: 1
After my major meltdown yesterday, I thought about the puzzle of handling heavy current and rocky/snaggy bottoms all day (I've never fished salmon/steelhead/whitefish in rivers, and have no idea how y...
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/4/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I'm far, far beyond the annoyed or irritated stage. I'm far into white hot, slam my expensive fishing gear into the ground rage. Literally.
I've had at least a half dozen people tell me how fishi...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 5/28/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Yakima River in Kittitas County
The Yakima river is back on track, 'big' and the entire river is 'fishable' right now. At this time of year everything is going to change on a daily basis. Yesterday...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 5/16/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The river is on a dramatic rise.....Take a break from this one for a few days!
Check out the Upper Columbia Report near the Canadian Border....It is fishing good.
Jack Mitchell
TheEveningHatch...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 5/11/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Yakima River Report in Kittitas County
Mother's Day Caddis Bloomed today on the Yakima - That seems apropo!
We have been experiencing good fishing throughout the system. The river is in great sha...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 5/7/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Kittitas County - Yakima River
We have had good fishing throughout the river overall, other than the Lower Canyon and we have no report there as we haven't been fishing that stretch. The Farmlands,...
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 5/4/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hey, where's the Yakima river in Yakima county? And Crappie are missing from species?
Anyway, this is actually for 2 trips, one with Jiggy and one solo. We went to several ponds in the basin a fe...
By: panfisher
Posted: 2/12/2014
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Gordy and I had to get that last whitefish trip in before the" lousy" good weather put a stop to the catching of them. We headed up into the Yakima Canyon where we fish most of our time but were rewar...
By: panfisher
Posted: 2/4/2014
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fish'd the Yakima Canyon hoping for a limit of Big Whitefish. The favorite spots where way to windy and thus was way to cold. I fish'd a great looking spot where I got the one and only bite all day T...
By: panfisher
Posted: 1/28/2014
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went up to the Yakima Canyon for a few hrs. caught 4in one area 2 in another and finish at Harrison Bridge for 2 more that were small but kept for a total of 8 fish. Used a regular black whitefish fly...
By: GordyC
Posted: 1/22/2014
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this morning in the Ellensburg canyon. Caught my limit in 3 hrs., largest fish was 17". It didn't seem to matter what color fly I used today. I fished with red, chartreuse and root beer col...