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Floated the Yakima Canyon yesterday and hit one of the heaviest caddis hatches I’ve seen out there.

Late afternoon, the water was absolutely covered. We landed around 30 fish, but it honestly wasn’t easy — there was so much real food on the water that getting fish to pick out our fly was the challenge.

Best pattern for us was a dark size 12 foam caddis.

Curious if others have been seeing the same thing in the canyon this week. Are you fishing dries, emergers, pupa, or swinging soft hackles when it gets this thick?

u/PlasmaAngler — 10 days ago
▲ 630 r/flyfishing

Floated the Yakima Canyon yesterday and hit one of the heaviest caddis hatches I’ve seen out there.

Late afternoon, the water was absolutely covered. We landed around 30 fish, but it honestly wasn’t easy — there was so much real food on the water that getting fish to pick out our fly was the challenge.

Best pattern for us was a dark size 12 foam caddis.

Curious if others have been seeing the same thing in the canyon this week. Are you fishing dries, emergers, pupa, or swinging soft hackles when it gets this thick?

u/PlasmaAngler — 10 days ago
▲ 1 r/FishingWashington

Curious what people think about changing the Yakima River regs from allowing two flies to only one.

I’m still trying to understand the pros and cons. I get the idea that one fly could simplify things and maybe reduce foul hooking or extra stress on fish. But two-fly rigs are also pretty normal for nymphing and dry-dropper setups, so I’m not sure how much it would actually help.

Has anyone seen good data from other rivers that made this kind of change? Did it improve the fishery, or mostly just make the rules more restrictive?

Not trying to start an argument, genuinely curious what other Yakima anglers think.

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u/PlasmaAngler — 19 days ago