Thanks Tim. Another thorough report from you.
> Floated from Umtanum to Squaw Creek yesterday with Luke from Worley Bugger > in Ellensburg and my frind Lisa who was a beginner at the start of the day > and a pretty good fly fisher by the end of the day. In a word the fishing > was EXCELLANT. The BWOs started coming off the river at around 10:00 a.m. > and continued throughout the day and fish were coming up for them almost > everywhere we went. I spent most of the day fishing a #16 Adams Parachute > with a #16 or #18 BHPT emereger on the dropper and got about 1/3 on top and > 2/3 on the dropper. We did hit some finiky fish who didn't like the #16 and > were holding out for #20s but for the most part it took the fish. The > other thing that worked was swinging soft-hackles in the riffles though this > tended to pick up smaller fish. Lisa fished a MadamX with BHPT dropper and > just didn't get fish on top but got a lot on the dropper so if you don't > like having to find a small dry/indicator then you could easily give up on > the topwater action. > > Best holes - the Smiley Face wall and the other big wall further downstream. > These two spots brought most of the big fish for the day. I got 3 fish at > the first wall, two 16" bows and one 14" one. At the second wall I landed a > very strong 16" fish, Lisa lost a big one then she got 3 more, the biggest > was another stout 16" fish. We got a few big ones throughout the river but > these runs really held them. Other than that the ends of riffles were big > fish producers. Fairly big fish were coming out of only 1' of water in the > riffles and when we stopped for lunch I got 3 fish out of a riffle that was > 1' deep and the size of a hot tub so the fish are pretty much everywhere. > > We lost count of total fish but I got a lot of 10-13" fish, probably 4-5 14" > fish and four 16" fish for the day, also lost several big fish and more than > a few average fish. My partner got a lot of the smaller fish, a few 14" > fish and the one 16" fish, also loosing a few bigs ones and lots of the > normal ones. We didn't get many really small fish but they were downing > our flies in some of the slower water. I also got one really big whitefish > and had a few others on keeping to my recent pattern of having my biggest > fish of the day always being a whitefish. > > The canyon is hot right now so call in sick and get out before the weekend > hoards descend on it. I doubt this is gonig to last much more than a week. > The canyon is totally wadable too which is good, it looks like a real trout > stream now with riffles and pools instead of looking like the usual big > irrigation ditch of summer. > > Tim > > >
