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By: SoggyBottomBoy
Posted: 7/1/2019
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the upper Yakima in Cle Elum (not sure why that river isn't listed on this site?) and had a really fun day. We boated around 12 fish total, mostly cutthroat, but a few rainbows and hybrids mix...
Posted: 5/15/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy Ken and I floated the Yakima River on Saturday, from Cle Elum down to the WDFW East Cle Elum launch. Hoping for a March Brown hatch in the early afternoon, we were in no hurry to get on the w...
Posted: 3/5/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
With apologies to the Beatles
The day started and ended like most of my days; thinking about fishing. Actually, it started just after midnight. I loaded the last of my gear into the truck and took ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/26/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/25/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Kind of hate to stink it up with a 1 star report, but I still had a great experience and thought I'd share.
So I spend a lot of time fishing the Lower Cle Elum river. I fish it right below the Sunc...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/30/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
So after not doing to well on the Cooper River above lake Cle Elum, I returned down to the places I knew better. I had caught a really nice wild 16" rainbow on the Lower Cle Elum about 2 weeks ago. ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/14/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Wow! today was such a great day. I was near Roslyn for the weekend. I was doing a family weekend and fishing was not really the focus.... but if you knew me, that means that the rod was stashed in ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/30/2012
Species: Brook Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/29/2012
Hot Spots: 1
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 ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 1/11/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had an unexpected day off from work so I decided to head over the the lower Cle Elum river. We had recently purchased some property of there, and I found some beautiful stretches of river that I wa...
By: gian
Posted: 7/21/2011
Species: Brook Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This report is a little late but last week me and the family spent 5 days at the Cle Elum river campsite. I brought my inflatable boat with me this time and was able to anchor it right where the rive...
By: gian
Posted: 7/17/2010
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I took the family out camping the last few days. We found a great spot that had everything they needed, plus acess to the river for me. I didn't have enough room in the truck for my waders so I had ...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 8/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a little feisty one in the upper Cle Elum River near the mouth of Cooper River. Wanted to run my boat with electric motor in Cooper Lake, but no motors allowed. I was casting a little all-gold ...
By: mallard83
Posted: 8/12/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the upper Cle Elum River this weekend and it was the worst fishing that I have ever had there. My friends and I fish near Lake Tuquala and all we caught and saw were little 2" bows. Usually ...
By: oahe80
Posted: 7/27/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My son, visiting up from Arizona, kept telling me about how much he missed the river fishing here in Washington. I guess Arizona doesn't have the river system as we do here. Well, on our way ba...