Yesterday’s warmer weather and overnight rain has really helped the system open up from the ice. The feeder creeks have started pumping some water down and you can now see chunks of ice floating in the Lower East Branch and Mainstem. The West Branch is in the best shape over but here does have some color from the feeder creeks. We are mostly ice free now on the West. The gauge at Hale Eddy still says ice for the current cfs but the river has risen from 2.5 feet to 4.5 feet since yesterday morning. The flow should continue to increase throughout the day as the melt continues and the remaining rain moves through. Hatching remains sporadic with a few stoneflies here and there and a few fish finding them on the surface. Streamers fished slow looks like the best opportunity to put a fish in the net today.
Looking for risers and matching the hatch on the West Branch. Photo by Jared Makowski
Hatching:
Little Black Stoneflies #14 – 18 – Capnidae sp. and Taeniopteryx sp.
| FLOWS AS OF 8:00 AM: | |
| West Branch at Stilesville, NY | 85 cfs @ 41º |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | Ice cfs @ 37º |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | Ice cfs @ 38º |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | Ice cfs @ 38º |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | Ice cfs @ 33.5º |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | Ice cfs @ N/A |
