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Yakima River Float trips
Be our guest for a day-long float trip down the beautiful Yakima River. The Yakima is Washington's sole Blue Ribbon Trout stream, and lives up to that title offering superb catch and release fishing from its headwaters down to Roza dam- about 80 river miles. Our guides run drift boats and rafts with room for two anglers. Your full day float includes luncheon, beverages, shuttle and gear is available. Our guides are all accomplished instructors and are well versed in the hatches the Yakima serves up throughout the year.

Steelheading
The Pacific Northwest is renowned for its Steelhead. These giant sea-run rainbow trout make their way up Western Washington streams each Spring and Fall- the 'Winter run' hatchery fish peak is in December/January and the wild fish peak in March/April, and 'Summer run' in September/October. Winter steelhead are typically bigger, and fishing them with flies generally requires fishing big flies deep. The rivers are colder and flowing higher in Winter, as opposed to the Summer steelhead fishery, which is more condusive to fishing floating lines, waking dry flies, and warmer, clearer waters in which the fish are more active and can see your flies well. Smaller patterns are the rule, so smaller rods may be used. While the Winter steelhead will require an 8-weight rod and a fast sinking tip line, Summer steelheading is more of a 6-7 weight rod game. Either way, the fish are big and fun to catch by any measure. Our guides are experts at putting you and your fly where the fish are...the rest is up to you!

Private Stillwater Fisheries

 

Isaak's Ranch is a private Trophy Trout fishery near Coulee City in Eastern Washington (more)
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Isaak's Ranch, located just north of Coulee City, is a private pair of lakes which offer some of the best fly fishing for trophy trout in the Western United States. The ranch consists of two lakes, the upper lake is about 50 acres, and the lower lake significantly larger. Each are packed with trout- and the rich environs of the Columbia River Basin are notorious for growing big fish fast. The upper lake is exclusively a rainbow fishery, but several thousand Brown Trout are in the lower lake to compliment the scads of giant rainbows there.
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Walk/Wade Trips
If a full-day float trip is not in the cards for you, we also have walk & wade options here locally on the Snoqualmie River, and a number of other fisheries within striking distance of Seattle. Walk & Wade fishing is a little slower paced than out of a drift boat but can be physically challenging and sometimes requires hiking. These trips generally 4-5 hours and a little longer for the streams over the mountains. We use light, 2-3 weight rods and fish dryflies as much as possible. There is little pressure on these streams so we usually don't see many other anglers. Give us a call or drop us an email for more information or to book a trip.


  
     

 
 
   
   
 
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