Yakima River

Brian

Brian

Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting Cutthwoat Twout
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Feel free to post observations of dangerous conditions such as hazards to navigation and how to avoid them.
PM me if you'd like to add gauge sites
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USGS gauge page includes useful prior year & median levels

Yakima River at Umtanum, WA - USGS Water Data for the Nation

Discover water data collected at monitoring location USGS-12484500, located in Kittitas County, Washington and find additional nearby monitoring locations.
waterdata.usgs.gov waterdata.usgs.gov
 
rooftop said:
Are there optimum/ideal levels for floating at each station?
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Hello @rooftop .
I am hoping that someone with much more knowledge and experience than I have will answer.
Most of the CFS data about the Yakima is for wading and tubing. And most of that data is for the easier Lower Canyon-Wilson Creek to Roza reach.
I think a more important question from Easton to Wilson Creek is the latest information on hazards and blocked channels.
A trip to a fly shop for up to date information might be the best way to get this information. And if you find out, please post it below.

Here is the "latest" from American Whitewater
Yakima Confluence with Teanaway River to Thorp

American Whitewater

The primary advocate for the preservation and protection of whitewater rivers throughout the United States and connects the interests of human-powered recreational river users with ecological and science-based data to achieve goals within our mission.
www.americanwhitewater.org www.americanwhitewater.org
Yakima River Ellensburg to Roza Dam (Yakima Canyon)

American Whitewater

The primary advocate for the preservation and protection of whitewater rivers throughout the United States and connects the interests of human-powered recreational river users with ecological and science-based data to achieve goals within our mission.
www.americanwhitewater.org www.americanwhitewater.org

theeveninghatch.com

About Yakima - The Evening Hatch

About the Yakima It is the jewel right in our back yard. It is a river for all seasons; The Yakima. Scaling from the forested East slope of the Cascade mountains to the farmlands of the Kittitas valley before entering the semi desert canyon as it heads south towards its final destination of the...
theeveninghatch.com theeveninghatch.com

Here is data about the Lower Canyon to Roza from Red's:

Yakima River Fishing Reports > Red's Fly Shop

www.redsflyshop.com www.redsflyshop.com
 
This is what I have been using. It should have everything for the Canyon: https://yakimacanyon.outfish.in/ . It connects to all the official data sources and should be the same or better since it uses anomaly detection to identify bad data coming in from the sources (e.g., when the dam meters fail and show 0% full occasionally...).

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New: live conditions for the Upper Yakima & Farmlands

I just added fishing info and live conditions for two more stretches of the Yakima — the Upper Reach (Cle Elum area) and the Farmlands.

A quick note on the data: some metrics, like water temperature, don't have a gauge at every location. For those, I built a model to estimate them — and I didn't just trust the math. I spent several days actually wading in and taking real temperature readings at the river to check the model against reality. It's holding up accurate to within about a degree.

I'll recalibrate in the fall as the weather turns, to make sure the models stay reliable through the seasonal change.

Hope some of you find it useful. Tight lines.
 
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