Spent the night over near Roslyn with a couple buddies. I showed them a few of my fishing holes on the upper Yak, and the lower Cle Elum river. Upper Yak, near Ensign ranch produced no results. We were fly fishing. Throwing a variety of bugs. Hoppers, various dry flies, nymphs, etc. Very fishy water in that spot, but nothing to show. Had some luck with VERY small brooke trout, fishing the lower Cle Elum river, in the area on the Suncadia conservancy, i.e. near Ronald. Fish hit a parachute adams dry fly immediatly as it touched the water. Again, these brooke trout were the size of kippered snacks in the aluminum tin in the grocery store. Still it was beautiful scenery and good times with friends.
We then proceeded way up past Salmon La Sac. We followed the upper Cle Elum river to just 1-2 miles below lake Tuquala... (sp?) You know the one.
My buddy had been successful in late Aug. up there, but by now the water was VERY low. The buds caught 2-3 6" trout, and I had only one blow up on a dry fly. It was a great day of gaining more experience with fly fishing, as well as doing what I liked to do as a kid... scramble through creek beds, explore pools looking for signs of fish.
I had hoped to get up to Cooper river, below Cooper lake, but chores called me back.

jumpinjim

10/1/2012 12:20:00 PM

I love to fish on the Cooper below the lake and above the trail head. Get my kayak, do a little creek boating and fly fishing ... good times, good times check it out: http://professorpaddle.com/media/photoview.asp?File_Id=7310

BentRod

10/1/2012 2:56:00 PM

Sounds like an awesome fishing trip Quad! Sounds like my childhood in the creeks of the Blue Mountains in eastern Washington.

jumpinjim

10/2/2012 8:05:00 AM

The wild thing about the Cooper is that there is a little ledge just below the lake that trout accdentally go over then they can't attain back up to the lake so they just keep moving around in the river, about 2 miles after the lake is a very large 80+ foot water fall that trout get swept over. So we will kayak from the falls to the cle elum and there are plenty of little water falls with clear pools in between like teacups. Each pool holds tons of fish and they are aggresive, only thing is they are battle worn little fish since they have gone over so many little slides and waterfalls like this one

jumpinjim

10/11/2012 10:41:00 PM

hey quad.... you should fish the green for some coho on your way down to work. literally right off I5. taake 30 minutes to bag a few then go get your beam on!

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