Try this again, it bounced to the world.... -----Original Message----- From: Tim Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 5:55 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'WA Fly Fishers (E-mail)' Subject: Yakima Canyon - BWOs still coming off heavy
Today I braved the weather and drove over to the canyon to fish from about 9:30 - 3:00. It never did warm up too much and there were some light showers on and off. Finally the rain came at 3:00 just as I got off the water, I knew I had to head home, so I'm not sure what that did to the fishing. The drive home was pretty miserable though, first hard rain for many Washington drivers in the pass, boy what fun. Fishing was hot still this week. In the morning I fished a dual nymph rig - a #16 BHPT nymph followed by a #18 PT nymph with an indicator. Parked at mile marker 15 and worked that long riffle above Red's for several passes. I got 10 fish through this riffle, most in the 11-13" range, one big one who ran into the heavy water and broke me off quickly, and one nice 16-17" fish that was very healthy looking. Had a couple more on and lost them, average sized fish. I wish I'd have stayed there longer for the ultimate hatch that started later on but oh well. Tried the riffle above that one too, lots of hard walking for no fish. About half the fish on the BH, half on the regular. Next fished the big riffle below the Umtanum boat launch. Some guys were at the upper end of it so I hit the lower end. Got one big whitefish, landed one trout and lost another trout. Last spot was between mile 18 & 19, just upstream of the bend on the road. This area looked great on the road side and I started with the nymphs getting one fish pretty quickly. Then around 1:45 the hatch started in full and fish were rising everywhere. In the next hour and 15 minutes I managed to land 5 trout, biggest about 14" and missed another half-dozen rises or lost the fish quickly. There were a few fairly large fish working that stretch and I rose and missed one of the bigger ones, damn! All these on a #18 BWO Comparadun. The guys from Worley-Bugger were just upstream of me and they were into rising trout also, the one client had just landed a nice one and had another on as I was packing it up. I hated to leave with fish still rising but as soon as I got in the car the rain began, pretty hard too, so it was a good call. If the wind stays down it should continue into the weekend. Evidently the wind was up yesterday and swept the bugs away but when it is calm the BWOs are out there. Tim
