Red's Fly Shop Cafe - Ellensburg

I recently have a guided trip on the yakima and in all honesty, can not say that I thought the service was carrying to the strong call reds. our guide admitted that he was burned out a bit from a long season, which was lunch before package safeway sandwiches, and the guide did not give a tonne lessons. I would give them a second shot, although their business always offers a great service and they seem to choose on the fish.

If you've always wanted to learn how to hunt or fish, this is the place for you. The staff is kind and considerate and will work hard to make sure you have a good time. My 11 year old son and I went and had a fabulous time on the Sporting Clay course (it's like putt putt with Shotguns but safe for course), then had a marvelous time shooting our first pheasant during the Uplands Hunting 101 course. My son and I got to have a delicious pheasant BBQ after our experience making it a great start to a future of safe hunting trips together.

I bought a rafting trip for my partner 's birthday. This rafting trip is more expensive than many around. I bought it thinking the quality of service would be the reason why. When we got there we received very few instructions other than wait and get in the car . When we arrived at the place, the person handling our boat basically gave us minimal instructions; go until you see the pacman and stay to the left, the landing site is about .5 miles from there (We had to ask how far from the pacman was the landing . The raft was put along the shore, the cooler put in the raft and he was off. He did not tie the cooler in, he did not show us any techniques, he did not give us any instructions other than where to get off. My partner and I looked at each other, agreeing the instructions of pacman were very vague. We asked more specific questions to get an idea...how long, in time, from now, should we be meeting it? It is a small icon? Pacman is what?? Oh! A large painting on the side of the rock. Then we asked what do we do after seeing the pacman (we were told to stay left after the pacman ? Let me reiterate that if we had not asked those questions, and where/how to stay on the river (we were told to try to stay in the middle...glad we asked! we might have gotten carried away a few times. When we finally came to the pacman, we stayed left. There was still a lot of river left. At some point we were really not sure if we should keep going around these little islands or if we were close. We were sure we were .5 miles...even further with the speed of the river. With both of us agreeing that the drop of directions were to stay left after the pacman, we made a choice to go towards this big opening on the left between an island and the shore. We had no other information to go off of. Wrong choice. We saw up ahead, and already too late to make a different choice, a whole lot of trees and bushes in the water crossing the path. We panicked. We speeded right into the trees, the bushes and was sure the raft was going to puncture, we were going to tip over and be carried through the water. We kept calm while we were being scratched, and slowly maneuvered ourselves and the raft through the trees only to be swept frantically down this narrow path and again hitting trees, trying to stay in the middle of this tiny winding path. We finally came out of the opening, shaking. The river clearly opened and we were now on the backside of some buildings being constructed. I just opted to get out on shore. I was shaking and furious at the directions. We pulled the raft on shore and clearly walked a good 7 minutes to the main desk, I was shaking the whole way, furious at the lack of clear directions to make sure I was safe. My partner let the front office know what our experience was and they said you went down there??!!! I wanted my money back. I called and wrote them with no response at all. I do not recommend this company. They took their comfort and placed it on us as if they were clear. As a corporate trainer and educator, I could not get away with that laziness. They are responsible for who they hire to explain clearly how to arrive and how everyone feels about their journey.

Met Max right on time at Flying J in Ellensburg. We were on Hilltop Lake at 9:45 and fished hard until 3:00 with no success. Had a few strikes on the popper from small Largemouth. Fish were sparse and skittish as though they received a lot of pressure. Wouldn't recommend this lake, as a private lake should produce fish. The guide was great and friendly and he cooked a great steak lunch. I would choose the trout fishing though over this lake. Very disappointing fishing.

One of the best fly fishing days of my life! Perfect guide service, lots of catches, including some big ole 16 inchers. Damn!!! Can't thank Red's enough for the perfect day.