Fished the upper Yakima in Cle Elum (not sure why that river isn't listed on this site?) and had a really fun day. We boated around 12 fish total, mostly cutthroat, but a few rainbows and hybrids mixed in. The river was running a little faster than normal, so we focused on fishing the slower edges of seems and banks with big dropoffs where the water was a little slower and had action all day. Netted a beautiful 15 in. cutty at about 1pm on a purple psycho prince (sz 14), but the fish were taking lightning bugs (sz 16) and a march brown bead head caddis larva (sz 18) netted me about 6 fish in 2 hours. Didn't see much surface action, and there wasn't any cloud cover or wind , so we didn't even bother with dry flies since the nymphing was so productive.

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