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By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/6/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Disregard the Benton county listing on this report. The Yakima river flows through a handfull of counties, and the website only lists it under Benton county.
Anyways, not much to report... Spent so...
By: eric1099
Posted: 12/24/2013
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went whitefishing this evening for bout 45 min. Caught 2 real quick. Fished on the west side of the bridge in zillah. On was small but the other one was decent. Realesed all of the fish. no pics sorry...
By: panfisher
Posted: 12/30/2013
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Gordy and I fish'd in the Yakima Canyon the first part of the day with 1 trout and no whitefish caught. We went to Harrison Bridge and even though this spot is heavily fish'd we managed 16 Whitefish u...
By: GordyC
Posted: 1/4/2014
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the canyon for whitefish this afternoon again. Brought hm. 10 lost 6 at the net. I fished 4 hrs.. The fish would hit in spurts. One hr. I would get 1 or 2, the next 5 or 6. I used my chart...
By: GordyC
Posted: 1/8/2014
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Panfisher did such a good job smoking the last batch of whitefish that I went out today to get him more to smoke. Fished in the Yakima canyon this afternoon for about 4 hrs.. It was slow fishing at ...
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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: The Jigmiester
Posted: 7/19/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had a chance to drop down and fish abit on the Yakima river by prosser today after a doctor's appointment. I was greeted by a surreal morning of solace as I approached the rivers edge. The recent ra...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 7/22/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I couldn't have followed up an awesome weekend of bass fishing with out telling you guys about my buddy Austin Morris and his dad trying out my Matador Sculpins that I just sent him on some Yakima riv...
By: ciego
Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Where the Yakima meets the Columbia River. Caught a Walleye about 4 lbs and about 7 smallmouth bass. Two other boats in the area were catching the smallmouth as well. This was in a period of about ...
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: michaelunbewust
Posted: 7/30/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2007
Hot Spots: 0
met dbaker on the lower yak, supposedly to show him some "hot" fishing. just caught some dinks (smallies), and no catfish. first time this year, but after reading the water tables, the river was up a ...
By: michaelunbewust
Posted: 8/6/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
HIT THE LOWER YAKIMA EARLY. WATER WAY TO HIGH, SO, I WENT UPRIVER AROUND BENTON CITY. CAUGHT A BUNCH OF DINKS TO 1 LBER,S. LOST A 4 LBER AT MY KNEES (I WAS WADING). WATER NEEDS TO GO DOWN ABOUT 1000 C...
By: michaelunbewust
Posted: 8/20/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/18/2007
Hot Spots: 0
hit the lower yakima early Saturday. again, water was running high for irrigation purposes. so, only a few bites and boat drifters were the only fisherpeople catching them. using chartreuse grubs (sma...
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: 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...
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: 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: 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: 7/25/2010
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 ...
