The Yakima - 'Our Home Water' - Since 1988. Currently the river is fishing good to great with PMD adults and nymphs being the 'main fare'; The only draw back as of lately...A tad bit of wind!

We are gearing up for a BIG summer on the Yakima - We will have plenty of cool water and the Summer Stones, Yellow Sallies, Terrestrials and evening Caddis will be on the menu for our resident trout. Check out our day trips and overnight packages.

New for 2008 is our overnight riverside cottage which is literally 'waterside'. The overnight package is a great program for family, friends and/or a corporate gathering combined with fishing. Schedule soon, as dates will fill fast.

Customer Appreciation Day - We invite you to our 'Customer Appreciation Day', where we will have a variety of vendors, casting/presentation clinics and a barbecue. This event is free and will be held on the 23rd of August @ Umtanum
Time: 11AM to 3PM
Place: Umtanum (between MM 17-16) - South of the Entrance
Please RSVP Jack/Jason @ theeveninghatch@fairpoint.net

'The Ins and Outs of The Yakima School' - Aug 1 and 2 - This school has been an 18 year long time favorite! Great insight on the entire system and knowledge from one of the most tenured guide services on the river!

Big Pines located in the Lower Canyon is now open and completely revamped. Many of you know it as 'The Slab' and is approximately 1/4 mile downstream of mile marker 10. Big Pines is a Bureau of Land Management Use Fee Area. The actual mile marker 10 access is a State of Washington access area. What does that equal?...

Big Pines from June 1 until Sept 1 requires a Bureau of Land Management day fee pass or you can purchase a yearly pass.

MM 10 requires the access permit displayed given to you by the State of Washington when you purchase your fishing license.


Guide School Over the years, 'The Evening Hatch has compiled a wealth of knowledge re: guiding and the ins and outs of an office waterside. Our 4 day program is all inclusive and comprehensive. The above link takes you to a very generalized page. If more specifics are needed please e-mail Jack at guidespeak@live.com

New/Updated Yakima Reports Page This page is for you! Over the years our reports page for the Central Basin and the Yakima has evolved and in that evolution we continue to try and make it better for you as an angler. We are now including flow/temp links and as many reports possible for the entire Yakima river system including the Sister Arm- The Naches.

Klickitat River Steelhead - Come fish summer run Steelhead with us...Check out our programs here! The core of our program is from September 1 - October 31. This is some of the most beautiful landscape and fun fishing you will experience! Read about the Steelhead Ranch in
'The Angling Report'

The Methow River - One to three day packages, the last two weeks of of September, all inclusive. Come float/fish the Methow for Rainbow trout during prime time.

The Upper Columbia - We have expanded our packages on the Upper Columbia to include more days based on demand... We still have a few pkgs available in July along with Sept/Oct! Come spend a day with us on 'The best trout water you've never heard of' - American Angler April 08'


Upper Columbia Wild Rainbow Tagging Project

We spent quite a bit of time working with WDFW in a tagging project targeting the wild native redband rainbows of the Upper Columbia. Hopefully the data will give a better idea to the biologists about the native trout migration and life patterns.

Third Annual Greg Stark Memorial - We are excited to keep the tradition ongoing and the memories fond of Greg! What better way to do that but to 'get the young'ens' fishing!

In The News...

The Evening Hatch Featured in The Seattle PI - April 08'

American Angler April 08' - Featuring 'The Evening Hatch' The Columbia River - 'The best trout water you've never heard of'

The Evening Hatch featured in the new Fox Sports show
'Seasons on the Fly' Methow River

'The Angling Report' (pg 6) featuring 'The Steelhead Ranch'

Schedule a fishing trip and receive 10% off any item in the shop!


Photo of the Month

Tip of the Month- What about 'Flymphs'? - Flymphs are patterns that represent the 'in between' stage; In between the nymph and the dry.

While dry fly fishing and nymphing under indicators seem to get all the attention and credit for 'How to catch fish' Sylvester Nemes would think different. The 'Current Grandfather' of the soft hackle swing, Sylvester has some great insight and knowledge about the Soft Hackled Fly. However, his knowledge is really a piggyback from the knowledge of the "Old Timers" such as Lee, Skues, Leisenring etc...read the following:

'Emergers, the transitional stage between nymph or pupa and adult, are of up most importance due to their vulnerability and availability, providing an efficient food source for trout. The North Country spiders of northern England were perhaps the first serious imitations of emergers and are still very effective even as emerger fly patterns become more and more realist in the modern era of fly fishing. However, many modern patterns, both nymphs and emergers, are often fished with a static approach. That is many anglers think they should only dead-drift their flies to rising or suspected trout feeding lies.

While dead drifts can be a natural behavior for aquatic insects, anglers sometimes forget that trout key in on the most vulnerable stage and available location of the insect. This often is not on the surface but rather along the stream bed up to the surface as insects hatch and ascend either by floating buoyed by internal gases or with propulsion by abdominal muscular action. These movements attract the attention of fish and being that they happen underwater enable the trout to feed efficiently with more safety than if they were targeting floating targets.

Anglers such as Stewart, Pritt, Edmunds, Lee, Skues, Sawyer, Leisenring, and Hidy recognized this and wrote of fly imitations and techniques that imitated sub-surface and transitional ascending nymphs and pupa.'

Referenced from http://www.flymph.com/index.html