Five years in a row and we have seen a few changes to this fishery in this short time. Still catching some of the biggest brown trout in the west so that has not changed. What has is other areas ...
As I pack for the Methow River trout guiding for the next month. I realized I have never shared what this 2024 Spring Steelhead season was like. It reminded me of 2010 with the fish numbers. ...
https://brazdasflyfishing.com/2024-spring-steelhead-seasonal-report/
I love the Fall time of the year the most. At times we have to many options, and we wish fall was 6 months of the year.But it’s not so we go extra hard, play as much as we can and pick the plac...
https://brazdasflyfishing.com/salmon-steelhead-and-mallards/
Best hopper fishing ever!
https://brazdasflyfishing.com/hopper-palooza-2023-best-ever/
Our Summer flows on the Yakima are yet to come up to their normal irrigating flows around 3000 cfs (sometimes up to 4200 cfs) for a couple months during the hot growing season. Looking at the res...
Summer trout season is under way with good water conditions steady, run off should be complete. June irrigation flows will begin soon, get the lower spring hatches while you can. Caddis, are on...
https://brazdasflyfishing.com/summer-trout-season-2023-yakima-natches-methow/
Our road trip began on July 24th a Sunday by that evening we were in Twin Bridges Montana a home away from home. Who do we immediately run into in the only grocery store for 30 miles, my good fri...
The goldens are winding down and the sallies are picking up speed. The Yellow sallies are the most misunderstood stonefly, they do not crawl to the edge and crack open like other stoneflies or Sa...
What we have is not so common but closer to regular and much better for the River, the Fish and the Earth than last spring. In 2001 or 2002 we guided the Yakima Canyon at 4800 – 5200 for a mont...
Ten days ago, or so I looked at the available snowpack and the reservoir height along with weather prediction and flow predictions. I thought we would have high flows with a fishable run-off by J...