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By: gian
Posted: 7/12/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the upper Yakima by Easton exit 71. I have a friend who owns a house right on the river down from the easton ponds. I was on the river for 2 days. Day one I walked up and down ab...
By: kingfisherman8
Posted: 5/2/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
hit the yakima on saturday fished behind cle elum. i caught one rainbow about 11 inches, i was using a brown plastic worm bouncing it on bottom. i had a lot more strikes but could not seal the deal. i...
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 7/17/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I floated twelve miles down the Yakima last Saturday and landed six small trout. One of the six was a nice 14" and I lost one big rainbow at the side of my kayak that was over 20". All of them were gr...
By: tframe
Posted: 1/25/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to switch things up a bit and go after some trout on the upper Yakima while the westside rivers come back into shape. Fished the upper Yakima above the confluence with the cle elum river and ...
By: tframe
Posted: 3/27/2015
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
With the weather so nice decided to head over to the Yakima and hike the john wayne trail across from hwy 10 east of cle elum. Fishing was excellent where I could access the river. A lot of bush wha...
By: pacbassman
Posted: 10/8/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hello friends. Got to take my father in law and his wife to Prosser for some fall king fishing. Still a bit slow but we got 2 between the three of us. Dad got left out :( Next time! Not a lot of fish ...
By: swies
Posted: 11/18/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/17/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Hit Smiley Rock (Pac-Man) above the Roza after work with a long time friend. 1st bite in 10 minutes. Ended up at 6 bites between us, 2 10" rainbows and another at 16". All were released easy for anoth...
By: panfisher
Posted: 2/4/2014
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fish'd the Yakima Canyon hoping for a limit of Big Whitefish. The favorite spots where way to windy and thus was way to cold. I fish'd a great looking spot where I got the one and only bite all day T...
By: panfisher
Posted: 2/12/2014
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Gordy and I had to get that last whitefish trip in before the" lousy" good weather put a stop to the catching of them. We headed up into the Yakima Canyon where we fish most of our time but were rewar...
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 5/4/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hey, where's the Yakima river in Yakima county? And Crappie are missing from species?
Anyway, this is actually for 2 trips, one with Jiggy and one solo. We went to several ponds in the basin a fe...
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/7/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well, thought I'd take a break from studying my thermodynamics and physical chemistry, and give the Yakima one last whirl. I've spent three years trying (two years trying hard) to figure out the catf...
By: GordyC
Posted: 1/4/2014
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the canyon for whitefish this afternoon again. Brought hm. 10 lost 6 at the net. I fished 4 hrs.. The fish would hit in spurts. One hr. I would get 1 or 2, the next 5 or 6. I used my chart...
By: GordyC
Posted: 1/8/2014
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Panfisher did such a good job smoking the last batch of whitefish that I went out today to get him more to smoke. Fished in the Yakima canyon this afternoon for about 4 hrs.. It was slow fishing at ...
By: GordyC
Posted: 1/22/2014
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this morning in the Ellensburg canyon. Caught my limit in 3 hrs., largest fish was 17". It didn't seem to matter what color fly I used today. I fished with red, chartreuse and root beer col...
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/7/2013
Species: Catfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2013
Hot Spots: 1
I probably shouldn't be posting this report, since I'm pretty much furious after another hard day of analyzing and fishing, with the usual result of a skunking with no bites. I have multiple people t...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 7/19/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had a chance to drop down and fish abit on the Yakima river by prosser today after a doctor's appointment. I was greeted by a surreal morning of solace as I approached the rivers edge. The recent ra...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 7/22/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I couldn't have followed up an awesome weekend of bass fishing with out telling you guys about my buddy Austin Morris and his dad trying out my Matador Sculpins that I just sent him on some Yakima riv...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/29/2012
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Yakima River in Benton City for about an hour hoping to catch a bridgelip sucker or chiselmouth. I caught one dink smallmouth and a chiselmouth-- both fish took half a nightcrawler near t...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was really nice to get a call from a brother fisherman friend of mine. Joe Cortez of Sunnyside called me the other morning to truck on up near Benton City for some early morning smallmouth fishing....
By: BentRod
Posted: 7/20/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the week with my folks in the Tri-Cities, so my dad and I took a morning to go up the Yakima to where he grew up by Horn Rapids Dam (now called Wanawish). Started they day by running across a n...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 7/25/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My good fishing buddie Joe Cortez called me up the other night and invited me along with his friend Luis Ochoa to do some wade fishing for Smallmouth Bass on a central section of the Yakima River. We ...
By: mean dean
Posted: 8/2/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to richland and fished the yakima river on thursday, friday and sunday. Me and my brother in law used our caddis float tubes to float about a 7mile section of river. every day we got in under the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After being skunked at Rotary In the morning me and my dad decided to try to catch something in the river. I went right where the Yakima and Naches confluence, it is pretty deep there. I casted out w/...
By: panfisher
Posted: 1/28/2014
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went up to the Yakima Canyon for a few hrs. caught 4in one area 2 in another and finish at Harrison Bridge for 2 more that were small but kept for a total of 8 fish. Used a regular black whitefish fly...
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/4/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I'm far, far beyond the annoyed or irritated stage. I'm far into white hot, slam my expensive fishing gear into the ground rage. Literally.
I've had at least a half dozen people tell me how fishi...
