Yakima River Weekly Fishing Report and Forecast

I am going to try and begin provide a weekly forecast for the fishing here, rather than just a glimpse at how we've been doing.  You can also link over to a new page we call the "Yakima Canyon Daily Essentials", that we started to make curbside pickup of tackle flow more smoothly.  You can get tippet, floatant, flies, leaders, indicators, etc. and all the "daily" tackle items you might need along with a more extended fishing forecast.

Flows and Weather Links:

• Current River Flows at Umtanum
• Flow Forecast at Umtanum (this is one step above fortune telling, often not accurate!)
• Weather in Selah, WA

Suggested Flies for This Week:

Nymphs:

• Tungsten DART Soft Hackle
• Super Pupae
• King Prince
• Pat's Stones (Tan/Brown and Orange) - Golden Stoneflies are on the move!
• Biot Sparkle Stone (great Yellow Sally nymph)
• Gold Lightning Bugs (great PMD nymphs)
• Rainy's Black Jack
• Caddis Pupae Jigged
• Double Bead Stonefly Nymph
• Rainy's Flexi Stone (tan)

Dry Flies:

• Rainy's Everything Dry
• E/C Caddis
• PMD Dry Flies
• Yellow Sally Dry Flies
• Bullethead Golden Stone
• Gold Chubby

Streamers:

• Skiddish Smolt (there are a fair amount of Salmon Smolt migrating right now!)
• Make it Rainbow Articulated Streamer