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You were experiencing the “Mother’s
Day Caddis Hatch” – grannom if I’m not mistaken. Thanks for the report! Jim From: owner- Floated the Things started off with a bang, caught a nice one on the
first cast from the boat on a stonefly nymph. Unfortunately it was not an
indication of the pace the rest of the day. We started early - about
9:30. We caught a few on nymphs but as rising action increased, switched
to caddis dries with caddis emerger trailers. I caught the nicest fish of
the day, about a 16-17 inch, thick-bodied rainbow, on the caddis shortly
thereafter. There was lots of boat traffic, but plenty of room for
everyone. Nobody seemed to be just tearing them up - between my partner
and I we probably caught 20 fish from morning to about 7pm. But, If we
had the right flies, it could have been 100. At one point around 5pm, about 4 miles in, we pulled over
and found an area where the fish were feeding in a frenzy on top for what we
thought were caddis or mayflies....after dozens of tries at different patterns
we only managed to catch a few fish, despite the fact that they were feeding
literally at our feet. Finally my partner caught what he thought they
were after - grey wings, grey and black striped body - I think it was a form of
caddis but not sure - he thought a form of mayfly. anyway, after tying on
our closest matches, he immediately caught fish, and I managed to catch a
couple too. The frenzy went on for well over an hour and clearly we
were not matching it - if so, it would have been epic fishing. Very
frustrating. (we tried various nymphs, emergers combos too but never
dialled it in) All in all, a very fun day. We may have been victims
of too much food on the river competing for trout's attention - literally
clouds of bugs over the river the entire day. |
- Yakima report Sunday scott635
- Jim Speaker
