thanks tim. good report. how the HECK do you get to fish so much? gary meyers kirkland
> 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 > >
