Good Fall fishing is weather dependant, not unlike lots of places we fish.
It has been too hot and with the hot weather there are few hatches. In the
Fall, the main food source is Baetis and they hatch in large numbers when
the nights turn cold. This cools off the water and triggers the hatches.
Your ability to fish a #20 on a 6x,7x long leader then becomes important .
I love to fish the BWO's and spot big fish sipping. Up until now, you
needed to fish nymphs on strike indicators and I posted on a great settup
and understanding of what you are trying to accomplish by Gary Borger not
long ago. The fish also tend to move out of the deep holes and into the
bolder patches and riffles more so than when the water was higher. It's
still a pain to have all those smolt in the canyon dunking your dry when the
fly hits the water. Jere
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Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: So many salmon...so few trout
>
> Well that's interesting. I spent a day on various parts of the upper
Yakima
> last week and was really disappointed, especially since I did so well last
> year. I saw very few rises, even when there was a great hatch going on.
>
> In fact, I don't recall any good Yakima reports on this list recently. Is
the
> fishing that bad this fall, or is it (as usual) just me?
>
> Mike
>
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