Fishing Summary and Report

The Spring of 2003 was absolutely remarkable. After 14 solid years on the river, we would rate this spring as certainly, "one of the best". Factors that made this Spring one of the best include:

Sno pack at almost 100%
Literally almost no down time from fishing the river due to spring run-off
The Spring Hatch's were great- Hatch synopsis:

Skwalas-Great to awesome action beginning Feb 28th
Blue Wings- Great emergences Mid- March
March Browns-Good with regular hatches
Caddis….Epic
PMD's….Epic

The river levels this spring were quite low in comparison to past years. We had an unseasonably warm January where a large amount of our low lying snow dissipated. Our snow pack in the higher elevation was substantial but melted slowly as it was a solid base and not soft. The Teanaway has been flowing fairly clean while still quite large this Spring because of the above stated reason. Combine the low water levels and great Caddis and PMD hatches and no wonder we had epic "rise fests" for literally two weeks in the month of May.

Currently, the river levels are at typical summer flows. These flows do limit the wading angler from access. On a positive note, these flows do keep the water temperatures cooler. Most of the large flows we see on the Yakima during the irrigation season originate from the bottom fed Cle Elum Reservoir…giving us a cool influx of water during the heat of summer.

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