The fish have reacted nicely to the warmer water and are staring to get more aggressive. The streamer and nymph fishing has improved while the dry fly fishing has still been sporadic due to the nature of the stoneflies. We did see some mayflies on the surface yesterday but not enough to get the fish looking. The hatching should improve over the next few days with the warm days in the forecast. We have light rain this morning and overcast skies. It looks like a fishing day. The West Branch at the 191 Bridge peaked around 52 degrees yesterday but we are starting off at 47 degrees already this morning. That’s around 5 degrees warmer than this time yesterday morning. Cannonsville Reservoir is at 95.4% capacity with an inflow at Walton of 1,220 cfs.
Larry with a nice East Branch brown yesterday. Photo by Bob Lewis
Hatching:
Little Black Stoneflies #14 – 18 – Capnidae sp. and Taeniopteryx sp.
| FLOWS AS OF 8:00 AM: | |
| West Branch at Stilesville, NY | 93 cfs @ 42º |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 477 cfs @ 47º |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 484 cfs @ 44º |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 1,980 cfs @ 46º |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 3,730 cfs @ 47º |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 1,490 cfs @ N/A |
