Summer Travel with the Yakima river fly shop

We understand if you don’t want to fish the river in January or February.  However, that shouldn’t prevent you from getting excited about the upcoming 2007 fly fishing season.  A good way to start the season is checking out one of the fly fishing only shows. 

This year Portland will host its first ever show on February 17 and 18 at the Oregon Convention Center.  Bellevue is in its fifth year at the Meydenbauer Center on February 9, 10, and 11.

For more information give the shop a call or email, or go to www.flyfishingshow.com for a list of all the vendors, classes and Destination Theater presentations.  It’s not official yet, but Jim may be presenting on the Yakima, the desert spring creek, the Clark Fork and Alaska at the Destination Theater.

The fly fishing shows: Bellevue & Portland

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Looking for a great gift for the fly fisher?  Look towards the Yakima River Fly Shop for great gifts.

 

Top 10 Gift Ideas

 

# 1    Guided Fly Fishing Trip on the Yakima River  Good anytime of the year - Enough said!

#2     Box-O-Bugs  24 of the best flies for fishing the Yakima River throughout the season in a great performing fly box.

#3     Tight Lines Angling Fly Shop Fishing Cap  Guaranteed to make any person more attractive.

#4     Korkers Wading Sandals.  These comfortable, supportive sandals have interchangeable bottom soles for lots of activities.  There’s a changeable felt wading bottom, studded golf bottom and hiking bottom.  Just change and go. $89.99

#5     Golf/Fly Fish Weekend.  We’ve put together a package with Suncadia that includes 18 holes of golf on the Prospector course, lodging at the Inn at Suncadia and a full day of guided fly fishing on the Yakima.

#6     Fetha Styx Fly Rod.  The best rods around.  High quality performance priced from $159 to $589.

#7     New Fly Line for 2007.  Top choices are Ridge Line from AirFlo and the new J3 Triangle Taper from Wulff Lines. $56.95

#8     Yakima River Journal.  Written by Steve Probasco, it provides most everything a person needs to know when fishing the Yakima River. $14.95

#9     Redington Waders.  2 new models for 2007: Chena River Women’s ($179) and CPS Men’s ($199).

#10   Box Canyon Chest Pack.  Never worry about misplacing your stuff again.  Three zippered compartments for small fly boxes.  Four zippered compartments for large fly boxes & accessory storage.  Mesh pockets for tippets. $34.95

Call or email the shop and we’ll get your order out the same day. Order by Dec. 15 and shipping is free.

Holiday gift ideas from the Yakima river fly shop!

Celebrate the Winter with Fly Tying Classes

Please join us at the fly shop in Cle Elum Thursday evenings or Saturday mornings beginning December 14 for the great winter activity of fly tying.  Each week, instruction on tying two patterns for the local area waters will be reviewed.  We’ll only tie good bugs.  No junk that doesn’t work.

 

All ages and experience levels are invited.  The shop will provide all the necessary materials for each class.  Participants should provide their tying equipment.  Each class is $15 at the door or $60 for all six.  The Thursday class meets from 6 to 8 PM and Saturdays are 9 to 11 AM.  The classes run for six weeks. 

 

Check out the section of tying materials and equipment at the shop.

Want a heck of a fly fishing trip these summer? 

Check these trips out:

 

The Fly Fishing triad - lots of ground to cover in a short amount of time

· Day 1 - full day on the Yakima river

· Day 2 - full day fishing the desert spring creek - Eastern WA

· Day 3 - full day on the clark fork in Montana

Packages include lodging and food

 

Western Montana’s finest - clark fork river & Blackfoot river

Guided fly fishing and lodging packages.  Select two, three or four days of trout bumming around western Montana with our guides from the shop - Scott Wilson or Jim Gallagher.

 

Kanektok river, SW Alaska - life is too short not to do this trip

It will take From September 7 to 15 to fish the entire Kanektok river from its high mountain lake to the small little native village on the banks of the Pacific ocean.  Fly fish for Leopard Rainbow Trout, Dolly Vardens, Arctic Grayling, Arctic Char and Silver Salmon.

Yakima river clean-up - Fall 2006

The first ever Yakima River Clean-Up organized by the fly shop took place October 28.  Volunteer turnout was a little low with four drift boats, 13 people and one dog.  However, we were able to collect over four pick-up loads of garbage off the upper river.  There’s a lot more garbage out there yet to be collected.  With all the log jams and tricky water for people in inner-tubes and small rafts, the upper river clean up is more of a disaster recovery of large items than just bottles and cans. 

 

After the clean-up, we had a nice BBQ, a few libations, and a slide show presentation.  A big thank you goes out to the Kittitas County Solid Waste Program for donating garbage bags and the transfer station fee; Whispering Pines RV Park for the use of their BBQ facility; and the Kittitas Field and Stream Club for donating the food for the BBQ.  A huge thanks to the volunteers: Ken Pappas, Loren and Jane Mooney, Sheila Gallagher, Guy Drew, Chris and Katie Rainey, Steve Shehorn, Lucas and Mia, and Rich Pogue. 

 

The fly shop is hoping to organize another clean-up in the spring and again next fall.  If you are interested in volunteering for this great event, please let the fly shop know so we can do a good job at organization.

Winter Rates - Guided fly fishing trips

“Northwest Casting Call”- fly fishing as medicine

Fishing the Yakima can be very good in the winter.  The lower river can be very good dry fly fishing with midges and baetis, while dry flies can also take fish on the upper river, a big black leech fished slow can move some pretty big boys.

 

To encourage people to fish and because it’s usually dark about 4:30  PM, we’ve adjusted our full day guide rates to $230.  We typically have lots of openings in the winter and would love to fish most any day.  Please call or email if you are interested in a fly fishing trip.  Trips include the all flies and supplies such as leader and tippet.

The Yakima River Fly Shop had the good fortune of working with Northwest Hospital once again in October through the Northwest Casting Call program.  The program introduces women who are cancer survivors to fly fishing through two half day fly fishing classes and a guided fly fishing trip on the Yakima River.  Not only has fly fishing been thought to reduce the anxieties of day to day life, but casting is great physical therapy for reducing the risk of blood clot and infection after cancer therapy.  Through the program, we were able to introduce 12 people to the sport of fly fishing and experience the beautiful scenery only accomplished by floating the Yakima River on a warm fall day.

 

Thank you to Lavonne Williams at NW Hospital for all her hard work in putting the program together.  We are planning our spring program for the second week in April.