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By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 5/17/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The Yakima river is blown out......will keep you posted as conditions change.
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By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 5/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
5/9/11 Guides day off - Rory
Fished with my Dad and a buddy upriver and had a very fun day. Fishing was not easy, we had to work for our fish, but were rewarded generously when they were hooked. Of t...
By: Murphy_rw
Posted: 5/7/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fish the Lower yaki from my boat cought a couple of good sized smallie
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 5/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
5/5/11 - Fishing remains good - We have seen some bumps in water levels but nothing out of the ordinary!
5/1/11 - Guide Report - Above Cle Elum
Pats stones, Bitterroot Skwalas, Golden Chubby Chern...
By: THester
Posted: 5/5/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
One of the best days I have ever had bass fishing this early in the year for the lower Yakima river. Water temp was at 56 degrees and it sure showed! The bites were in mpre back slough waters rather t...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 4/26/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
4/26/11 -
Over the last 4 days the river has dropped and fished worthy. Nymphing has been the tactic. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, San Juan Worms and a Stonefly nymph have been the ...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Ringer road Mile Marker Twenty on the 17th with a couple of 'new to fly fishers'. Pretty windy and big water still, but overall solid fishing and catching. Hooked a dozen + in a short afternoon...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 4/11/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
4/9/11
The week 'Blow Out' is slowly leveling out. We are definitely on track in the Upper River - Teanaway river and up - good to go. The Farmlands and the Lower Canyon are looking better daily ...
By: dudeitsme0
Posted: 12/4/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Finally had my first float down the yakima river canyon today. thanks to the help and recommendations from the guys at Reds. no clue as to what i was really doing as i've never river floated before bu...
By: dudeitsme0
Posted: 11/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Day off, weather was looking somewhat better than previous days so i decided to make the trip out to the upper yakima off of the Bullfrog Rd exit. Outside temp was about 33-36 degrees at times, no win...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 8/10/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
One of the most awesome things about this website is that a guy can hook up and fish with other fishermen. Today I got the chance to fish with none other than Medic 1 and JBball50 on a section of the ...
By: mean dean
Posted: 8/2/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to richland and fished the yakima river on thursday, friday and sunday. Me and my brother in law used our caddis float tubes to float about a 7mile section of river. every day we got in under the...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 7/25/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My good fishing buddie Joe Cortez called me up the other night and invited me along with his friend Luis Ochoa to do some wade fishing for Smallmouth Bass on a central section of the Yakima River. We ...
By: BentRod
Posted: 7/20/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the week with my folks in the Tri-Cities, so my dad and I took a morning to go up the Yakima to where he grew up by Horn Rapids Dam (now called Wanawish). Started they day by running across a n...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was really nice to get a call from a brother fisherman friend of mine. Joe Cortez of Sunnyside called me the other morning to truck on up near Benton City for some early morning smallmouth fishing....
By: dudeitsme0
Posted: 5/31/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Was my first sucessful fly fishing trip. started from the WDFW Boat Launch in S Cle Elum area along Hwy 970. Rained on and off but wasn't going to stop me from fishing. Started with nymphs, which i ha...
By: Idratherbe...
Posted: 5/25/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Actually fished in Yakima county just below the Roza Dam. My first springer ever, and I'm proud it was on my home river. It was my third time out this season and I finally hooked up with this 31in 1...
By: kingfisherman8
Posted: 5/2/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
hit the yakima on saturday fished behind cle elum. i caught one rainbow about 11 inches, i was using a brown plastic worm bouncing it on bottom. i had a lot more strikes but could not seal the deal. i...
By: Aaron
Posted: 4/5/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Keven Samuelson of The Evening Hatch Guide Service took Mike Carey and I for a day trip down the Yakima. The weather was somewhat miserable, but the fishing was fine! We caught fish off and on all day...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/4/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2010
Hot Spots: 3
Aaron and I went out for a day trip with Keven Samuelson, a guide for The Evening Hatch Guide Service for a day of fishing and video shotting. As our luck would have it, a front moved in and the Seatt...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 3/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday, me and buddy Brian hit up the YaKima River for a little fly trip. The water was about 4-5 ft of visiblilty and a bit chilly. Sun was out in full force, but that damn wind bothered us all da...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 9/20/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2009
Hot Spots: 2
First Time Ever Fly fishing. THE BEST TIME I'VE HAD FISHNIG IN YEARS!! The feeling I got when I hooked my fist trout was incredible. Yeah, I have a whole lot to learn, but I'm up for the challenge.
F...
By: gian
Posted: 7/12/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the upper Yakima by Easton exit 71. I have a friend who owns a house right on the river down from the easton ponds. I was on the river for 2 days. Day one I walked up and down ab...
By: bigbads10
Posted: 4/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day on the river and found some good holes that might hold some sturgeon. worst day of fishing beats a good day at work.
By: crappiemaster
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I am sorry about hitting the Yakima River as the location. I could not find the Columbia River in the Benton County index. The fish were actually caught at Crow Butte on the Columbia. What a day! M...
