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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: 1/4/2014
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: panfisher
Posted: 12/30/2013
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Gordy and I fish'd in the Yakima Canyon the first part of the day with 1 trout and no whitefish caught. We went to Harrison Bridge and even though this spot is heavily fish'd we managed 16 Whitefish u...
By: eric1099
Posted: 12/24/2013
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went whitefishing this evening for bout 45 min. Caught 2 real quick. Fished on the west side of the bridge in zillah. On was small but the other one was decent. Realesed all of the fish. no pics sorry...
By: Bmounce
Posted: 9/29/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/28/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Fished from 7am to 3:30pm at Vernita Bridge on the Columbia River. The water was moving pretty quickly and dropping all day. The weather was partially rainy and overcast all day. We fished with divers...
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: Rainchild
Posted: 6/15/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/14/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Location was just before you get into the canyon a few miles down from the Rosa dam. Parked off the road and over the railroad tracks down the rocks and right at the bank. No luck what so ever but i...
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: tluedeke
Posted: 5/30/2013
Species: Catfish
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/25/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Took the boat out Saturday evening because many people had been telling me how fantastic the mouth of the Yakima was for channel cats. At first, I got a bit lost in the Yakima Delta, having turned in...
By: FlyGirl
Posted: 5/28/2013
Species: Brook Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well, we went to the Yakima this weekend, off of Cherry Creek Road, at the sno park, between Easton and Lake Keechelus. Nice bend, two forks meeting up, and didn't get a darn thing, not even a nibble...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 3/30/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well... this was a bummer. It's the nicest weekend weather of the year. I headed over to Redd's in the canyon for a guided float trip on the Yak. A friend from work had invited me, which even thou...
By: colel311
Posted: 3/28/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Didn't see Yakima River in Kittitas county so Benton will have to do. Got out of the house by 10am for an afternoon of fishing on the Yak. After an hour and a half we arrived in Cle Elum and started o...
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: 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: 7/22/2012
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: 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: fishinChristian
Posted: 7/6/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went for 2 hours to a slough I knew of from the past. I call it 2 fish slough (no idea what it really is called) because 9 times out of ten that's what I catch there. It didn't disappoint. 2 Largem...
By: ciego
Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Where the Yakima meets the Columbia River. Caught a Walleye about 4 lbs and about 7 smallmouth bass. Two other boats in the area were catching the smallmouth as well. This was in a period of about ...
By: MaxHedon
Posted: 7/2/2012
Species: Catfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the Yakima fishing for channel catfish. We were fishing out of Richland, using sucker meat on the bottom. My wife and I got nine total from 2 - 10 pounds. My wife also got a smallmouth...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/6/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Disregard the Benton county listing on this report. The Yakima river flows through a handfull of counties, and the website only lists it under Benton county.
Anyways, not much to report... Spent so...
By: pacbassman
Posted: 9/19/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well the first king trip of the fall was very unproductive. No fish but that wasnt the important part. Got to take "The Jigmiester" and a buddy from work fishing on the lower Yakima near Benton City. ...
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: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 7/22/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Nymphing lately in the lower canyon has been good to great. Pat's stones, lightning bugs, king princes, and caddis pupa patterns have made the show lately. Today caddis fishing in select zones at dark...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 6/18/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
6/17/11
Man, our river looks, feels, and is currently fishing great! Golden stone adult patterns are turning fish in the afternoons on the right days, and nymphing select "summer like" zones is acc...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 5/31/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We ran some trips this past week and had boats out this Memorial weekend. Great fishing and good catching were had on the upper river and in the farmlands. As of today the river is at just over 3000 c...