Saturday, June 22, 2013

Taneum Creek/Yakima River, WA

My buddy and I had camped at this place last year later in the summer and thought that we should try an earlier trip this year. We loved the area, lots of space, and complete isolation. Traveling again a long ways up the creek we set up our camp at our same spot. This year was a little extra fun because we brought our mountain bikes and shotguns. Anyways fishing the north fork we had some pretty good success catching some smaller trout mid-day of Saturday. After a small nap and little exploration we went down the the bridge that crosses the river below where the two fork meet. Walking this stretch of river down to the campground we caught several more fish and managed one fish that was about 10".
Sunday on the way out brought some pretty misserable traffic and thus we decided to pull over at the Bullfrog put in on the Yakima river. Found some big water with lots of fish but only caught one.

See this blog as well for additional detail: Taneum Creek

Summary:
Location: Taneum River, near Thorpe, WA off I-90 west of Ellensburg.
Time: All day
Rod: 5 wt floating line
Tackle: Elk hair caddis, purple and traditional parachute adams, misquitos, and multiple other little duns and caddis'
Fish: 10+
Species: Rainbow and Cutt Throat
Biggest Fish:10"
Smallest Fish: 4"
Rating: 7.5/10

Summary:
Location: Upper Yakima River west of Cle Elum
Time: 4-6pm
Rod: 5 wt floating line
Tackle: 8 pat's stone brown and black, 12 skwala stone, 14 tan elk hair caddis, 8 tan body/black back Chernobyl, 16 belly bead copper john, 16 batman prince nymph, 16 tan elk hair caddis, stimulator stone
Fish:1
Species: White Fish
Biggest Fish: 13"
Smallest Fish: N/A
Rating: 7/10




No comments:

Post a Comment

If you comment "Anonymous" leave a name so I can respond back to you, Cheers.