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?
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Damn. We were over there last weekend and it was s-l-o-w. A few March browns here and there, we saw two or three salmon flies, but nothing ever popped off.
Hatches like that and you sort of just sit back and watch the show.