Decided to switch things up a bit and go after some trout on the upper Yakima while the westside rivers come back into shape. Fished the upper Yakima above the confluence with the cle elum river and it was pretty tough with the water pretty high and off colored. Fished spinners and landed one really nice fat rainbow about 15". Hooked into 4 others but they came off before I could get them in. I went in with the intentions of wading but the water was to high and fast so ended up spending half the time bushwhacking. Lots of elk and deer tracks along the river and saw some fresh bobcat tracks in the snow as well. Very nice change of scenery. Will be on the sky tomorrow.

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