About the Author

Joe Rotter

Joe is the "blogger in chief" here at Red's in addition to being our guide service manager and partner here at Red's. He is a father of 3 spunky children his wife Kelly can only be found fishing when the temperature gets above 85 degrees and the fish are gobbling up dry flies.

In addition to being a fly fishing junkie, Joe is a hard core bowhunter, is a volunteer Hunter's Eductation Instructor, and loves riding horses with his kiddos. Joe still guides a small part of the time but spends most of his time working on web marketing, travel, and helping customers find the right tools and information for the job.

Yakima River Weekly Report // June 12th, 2020

June 12, 2020

The river is in great shape! The dry fly fishing has been surpisingly good! Look for feeding fish on PMD's, Para Adams, and even #8 Golden Stoneflies every day starting at 2-3 pm. The mornings have been solid on nymphs and streamers. 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:

Rainbow Warrior Nymph
Tungsten DART Soft Hackle
Caddis 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:

Streamers:

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

Thank you for the overview about fishing on Yakima river. I never used a fly fishing technique, so I have a regular rods, do you think I have chances to catch any trouts that way? If that is the case, what would you recommend me to get in addition. Also, I am planning to fish from the shore, are there any good places for fishing from the shore along the upper or middle Yakima river? I I have hard time to find the limit of trouts that I can catch and keep, is it 5 or 6 per day at Yakima river? Thank you!