Yak Yak Drift

T with a limp line.....

A while back I did my first drift of the Yakima River with my friends Eric Larsen and Tim Opitz.  There had been a storm the night before so the river was up a bit and getting cloudy with some mud flows that were coming in from some other rivers in the area.  We were going to try and do what is called the Canyon but the road was closed due to a massive rock slide so we went up stream some and put in at a KOA park.  Again, it was my first drift ride so it took some getting used to.  We would pound the shore lines as we drifted down throwing big dry flies with droppers beneath them.  We would also go into shore once in a while and fish some of the splits in the river which was great fun as well.  I picked up a few small fish doing this.

"T" with a nice Bow on the Yak

Not far into the drift Tim picked up a nice fish which did some good runs before he could get it to the shore.  I lost a few flies with the drift and trying to get close to the shore with my cast.  Lot's of low hanging willows that really liked to jump out and grab your fly..(o:








All in all we had a great time and it gave me an opportunity to hang out the new Plain Fly Tyers banner for the first time.

Dennis, Tim and Eric with the new banner

I think my camera has a mind of it's own!!!