Re: Yakima

[Jere Crosby]

Oh, but think of the "NATIVE" fish.  Rainbow's are only there because the once native Salmon were eliminated.  Another example of trying to turn back the clock to caveman days....makes me ill.  The biologists that we talked to said we were overreacting to the effect the salmon smolts have on the rainbow fishery.  They said they will take up residence in the quiet, backwaters and not be located in the current and seams.  Yeah, right.  Jere       ----- Original Message ----- From: James Medick To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 1:29 PM Subject: Yakima Fished the Yakima Sunday, floating from Red's down to Rosa.  The water was a little cloudy, about 18 inches visibility.  Got on the river about 9:30 am and fished until 7:00 pm.  A beautiful day, sunny, no wind, (no fish).  There must have been a gazillion small smolts in the river.  We tried our best to avoid them.  The only possibility was a large fly like a number 8 Stimulator, something big enough so they couldn't inhale it.  The two of us fished pretty hard and caught nothing but 4 - 5 inch fish.  In some cases you literally could not escape them.  Perhaps Salmon smolts, not sure, some had a bright orange half circle by the eye.   When we took out at Rosa, the smolts looked like popcorn popping through the surface.  They were everywhere, probably 3 - 5 in the air an any one point in time.   Jim Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com