Delaware River Report / Conditions April 20, 2014

Happy Easter!  Lots and lots of bugs on the water and in the air yesterday.  Not a lot of fish rising.  We saw mostly stoneflies, Quill Gordons, and a few Blue Quills.   The wind in the afternoon didn’t help.  We have the bugs.  It won’t be long before the fish realize their food is here and the fishing breaks wide open.  A few more degrees of water temp should help tremendously.

There will be some unbelievable fishing sometime in the next 7 days.

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Hatching:

Quill Gordon -Epeorus pluralis #14

Tiny Black Stoneflies #18 – Capniadae sp.

Early Black and Brown Stoneflies #14 – 16 Taeniopteryx sp.

FLOWS AS OF 8:00 AM:
West Branch at Stilesville, NY 2,470 cfs @ 40º
West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY 2,780 cfs @ 41º
East Branch at Harvard, NY 2,320 cfs @ 39º
East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY 3,390 cfs @ 41º
Mainstem at Lordville, NY 7,700 cfs @ 44º
Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY 1,090 cfs @ N/A
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