Yakima fishing opportunities

[bak2huntn]

Heading over next week to Yakima for some basketball for a few days, any tips for getting a twelve year old out fishing in between games?,fly or spin fishing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Ha thought I was to Wenatchee ?

[B4noon]

Sarge Hubbard juvenile pond will be stocked early next week and will provide plenty of action close to town

[bak2huntn]

Thanks for the reply may let him give it a try.

[Iveexcaped3]

Yakima river in the canyon is where I see everyone fly fishing. Few ponds that have fish in them. Be careful over by hubbard. There’s been a few shootings right there and a few homeless that squat in the woods behind it.

[jackelope]

The Yakima river will have a skwala stonefly hatch starting up and the river levels are down this time of year. Water is warming up a little and fish will be looking up.
Not hopper season, but it’s pretty straight forward fishing if he can huck a fly.

[7mmfan]

If you're in to fly fishing it will be staring next week as Jackelope stated. From below Roza on upstream. Weather has been cold so fishing deep and slow willl be the ticket. 

[bak2huntn]

Thanks for all the tips guy's, he can Huck a fly heck better than me I think! we will definitely give a few places a try since we will be there a few days.

[Limhangerslayer]

If you're in to fly fishing it will be staring next week as Jackelope stated. From below Roza on upstream. Weather has been cold so fishing deep and slow willl be the ticket.

before Roza isn’t open until Memorial Day, so don’t fish below the dam

[Wphunt]

The stretch above the canyon they call the farmland section. It’s a little better from the bank than the canyon and more interesting imo. Try a hopper dropper setup with a size 8-10 stonefly pattern for the dry fly. The natural skwalas are kind of a dirty olive color, but size is more important. There will be blue wing olives hatching also, try any small tungsten head bwo nymph for a dropper. Tight lines

[bak2huntn]

Thanks for the comments, and Iveescaped and limbhanger some times where not go is just as important as where to go! thanks for the heads up. What size tippet is best ??

[jackelope]

I’d use 5x tippet unless you’re throwing streamers. As long as the kid can handle a possible bigger fish on that lighter tippet.

[bak2huntn]

There must be some spies around here, lots of people headed over for state and wouldn't you know it skwalas is the only empty spot in the fly section at the stores I checked!! I mean sold out. But will make due with other suggestions.

[Iveexcaped3]

There must be some spies around here, lots of people headed over for state and wouldn't you know it skwalas is the only empty spot in the fly section at the stores I checked!! I mean sold out. But will make due with other suggestions.

Reds should have them up the river.

[jackelope]

Emma’s Stonefly. Size 10.
Per Red’s.

[7mmfan]

That'll do.

[hunter399]

I know very little about winter time fishing.
But this video cam up in my YouTube that I thought was interesting.
You could make these with a rubber band,fishing line,and a hook.

[bak2huntn]

I didn't have as much down time as expected, we did check out the river and its was way up and moving fast decided against a frustrating day of hooking weeds and willows casting flies. So I took him to Sarge Hubbard pond and he caught two on a blue fox, one sixteen inch and a twelve. We ran down to the I-82 pond #6 and I managed a nice 18 inch rainbow on power eggs.Fun place to run around.  Thanks for the tips and will be back to fly fish the river.