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Klickitat
@Pitt

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Yakima Report 

Pierce and a mint hen

Fish Counts at the Columbia main stem Dams

9/1 - Update; the river is on the rise.

9/1 - The river's clarity is unbelievable.

8/28 - Fishing has been good. We ended up with a burst of rain yesterday on the mountain and it turned the river to less than desirable clarity. Should be back on track

8/23 - Fishing overall has been good. This past weekend's weather was 'Fall Like' with cooler temps.

Swing bugs used - Minnow Purple/Black Skagit Minnow , Egg sucking Stonefly , Purple Muddler

Swing Stats for 8/22 ;

- One hook up on the hard side in the heart of the run.
Line used - Skagit 500 with a 5.9 inch per second 10 ft. sinking leader
Rod used - Old Brown Rod / Sage 7136

- One hook up in a broad tailout flat
Line used - Scandi 510 with a 5.9 inch per second 7ft. sinking leader
Rod used - Sage TCR 7126

- One hook up in strong tailout slot
Line used -Skagit Flight 525 with 10 feet of T-11
Rod used - 7120 Loop Multi

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8/20 - Ditto

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8/12 - Well, how could anyone complain about this year so far? End of Story

8/6 - The fishing and catching remains gooooood! Both the nymph and the swing are producing. Remember, productive swing water and nymph cand be similar but can also be completely different. Lately our swing fish are definitely coming from non-nymph water.


7/28 - Remarkably good clarity ...... Fishing is GREAT

7/26 - The water clarity has gone be the way side.....The river has held out longer then usual. Watch for it to come back into shape with the next cooling trend.

7/23 - Great fishing - Both the swing and the nymph are producing. Yesterday during an evening fish we swung two runs and hooked 2, with another prominent grab.

Tackle used

7136 Old Brown Sage
500 Standard Skagit
10ft 3.9 inch per second sinking leader
Coneheaded Black/Purple Mole Leech

7126 Death Star TCX
525 Skagit Flight
10 Ft of T-11
Unweighted Black String Leech with Red Collar

Nymphs used lately included ... #4 Hot Head Stone, Purple Egg Sucking Leech, The Bead, Yarn Bug, The Lifter

We have fished from Summit Creek to Pitt and have caught fish throughout. Clarity has been swinging from 2-3 feet.

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7/17 -Guides Report - Travis The river is in great shape and has been, looking at the five day forcast it should continue to stay that way. We are looking at two and half feet of vis and greeeen. I swung the fly all day had one big grab in the afternoon in front of a rock ledge on a purple egg sucking spey, then landed a chrome 13 pound hen on a purple and pink string leach below the rock ledge. If you find fish keep working that zone. I don't know what the nymph fishing has been like because I haven't done any.

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7/14 Good to go....The Klick is in; Have you seen the numbers over Bonneville? Wow!

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7/11 Water clarity is at about 1 foot max, based on the cycle. There are lots of fish in the system. Don't let anyone tell you different. Tough fishing with the fly as the clarity is marginal at best. The clarity may improve with the cooling trend we are expected to have over the next week...

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Tip of the week-
Swing the tailouts and nymph the secondary drops.

7/7 could be tough with this heat....Water has been in great shape lately but the clarity was waning yesterday and willl most likely decrease even more over the next few days based on the weather.

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6/25 Guide Report - CJ
Three days. Tough for swing hookups, the third day targeted tailouts heavily, just couldn't buy a fish swingin. Seems like the fish that were around moved or were caught, or just weren't in the mood to eat with the first real hot bright days of the summer. We two handed alot of water to no avail. The 6 fish we did hook were on the nymph! The fish on the nymphs ate black and purple egg suckers with orange chenille heads, lifters, and yarn crushers.
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8/12 - No report

7/23 We will be taking a break from this one for the next 50 days. If you would like to spend some fall days with us on the UC, we still have a few prime time packages available.

7/19
The Drakes are starting to wane....Caddis will be the predominant game from now until late August

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7/15
Best Bug last night ... The UCEC Drake

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7/14
Kinda tough weather the past couple days for the Dave, John, Bill and Buddy. They however got'er done considering the winds. Drakes continue but seem to be a bit light. Nymphing prior to hatch has been a bit slow.........The dry fly game from 5PM on has been the ticket.

Best bug lately - The Columbia Hairwing X

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7/11
We took the weekend off and will be back at the drake fishing manana.

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7/8
Drakes continue and the Caddis are strong. The dry fly window was a bit shorter last night. The flows increased quite a bit over the last 24 hours...

Best Flies Lately...

#14 Hungarian Partridge Caddis
#10 Hairwing Drake
#8 20 Incher
#14 Para Caddis

7/3
We have Drakes and Caddis, the fishing is GOOOOOOD; Bilge pump was clogged last night from the BUG's!
Waterside - Jack

6/28
The past two days have been a 180. The night of the 26th the hatch was strong and the fish responded well. The 27th was quite a bit slower - The hatch was weak. The predominant bugs have been Caddis and PED's

6/25
Last nights fishing was pretty epic. We hooked 20-25 fish on the dry. Best flies were the Goddard and the Foam X-Caddis The bugs went bazerk last night it was great. I was able to anchor hop down the Flat casting to risers the whole time pretty much. The top half was definitely the best. No big fish landed everything was between 15" and 19". Nymphing earlier in the day wasn't as good, we hooked 4 fish. We threw to risers in Deadman's earlier in the day too and had 3 fish eat there, all on the pupa. All in all though it was a damn good night of fishing, hoping tonight is as good.

6/23
One word... Caddis. They've finally come and the fish have responded. We've had ok too good dry fly fishing the last week on small yellow mayflies but last night our caddis finally bloomed and the fish came out of the wood work. With a few warm days on the horizon it looks like the fishing should be pretty good. Drakes should be on the horizon within about 10 days or so. Top producing tactics over the last week have included nymphing under indicators as well as high-stick nymphing in select spots, swinging/stripping soft hackles, and fishing dries to rising fish. Top flies have been #12 Purple Holo Prince, #14 Green Rock Worm, #16 Yellow May Parachute, #12 or 14 Tan X-Caddis, #14 Tan Bubble-back Caddis Pupa, and #12 Brown Bomber Soft Hackle. Biggest fish over the last few days was a 24" Bow caught on a #16 Yellow Parachute casted to in Deadman's Eddy. Several fish in the 20"- 22" range have been landed.

8/28 - Ditto

8/22
This cooling trend is a two thumbs up. Fishing has been worthy even with the heat! Hoppers and Droppers!

8/12
The dry fly fishing has been good but not as good as it was two weeks ago.....Nevertheless, the catching was relatively steady throughout the day on the 10th. Best dry fly was a #8 Tan Chubby, Best nymph was a # 8 Brown Pat's Stone

7/26

Fishing on the Methow over the weekend was AWESOME. Day time nymphing and evening dry fly fishing was the mode of operandi!

8/29 Ditto

8/12

Good fishing via foot.The Hopper/Droppercombo has been a great method for numbers. Best Dry Dropper combo this week was a # 6 Tan Chubby with a #14 Tungsten head Prince nymph

8/6
Water is tooooooo low to float. Fishing has been good in the evening with the dry and decent during the day.....# 1 dry fly lately is a hopper pattern called 'The Smasher'

7/26
Daytime fishing has slowed due to the heat. The ability to float the river without dragging the boat is pretty much over.

7/15/2010 - Guides Report - Keven
The Naches was automatic fishing under the bobber until about three in the afternoon, had one big fish eat a big dry in the morning and topwater action was good in the evening with a half dozen fish in the 16"inch range to the fly. LOTS of fish caught between 10-14" throughoutthe day, with the most rainbows I have ever seen to hand on thatriver. The cutthroats are fat right now. Two thumbs up!

7/14/2010
Good Caddis, Grey Drakes and Goldens - Good Fishing -Nymphing, Dry Flies and Streamers have all proven effective.

7/11/2010
River bumped up a bit in the last couple days due to releases from the Bumping resevoir. Clarity has not been compromised. We will have a more in depth report in the next 48 hours as we will be on the river over the next few days.

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7/7/2020

Guides Report - Keven - (note: the below report is classic and guidelike)

any prince, any pats, and big orange dries, bobbers early, dry flies in the evening, good fishing, not on fire, but solid!