Delaware River Report / Conditions August 15, 2017

So far today looks like a decent one.  The flows have dropped back and we woke up to a light rain.  We should see intermittent clouds and sun with a chance of a small thunderstorm.  Winds should stay around 6 mph according to Accuweather.  Precipitation should be less than 1/10″.  This feels like an olive day.  Otherwise we are in the same pattern of olives and sulphurs on the upper river sections and olives in the evening on the lower sections.  There is a shot of Golden Drakes and Cahills (a lot of Stenocrons) on any section.  We are even finding some Cahills mixed with the White Flies down in Callicoon while we’re smallmouth fishing.

 

Hatching:
Slate Drake #12-2xl – 12 – Isonychia bicolor
Sulphur – #16 – 20 – Ephemerella dorothea
Golden Drake – 12-2xl – Potomanthus distinctus
Light Cahill – #14 – Summer Sulphurs, Stenocron spp.
Little BWO – #22 – 26- Pseudocloeon sp.
Blue Wing Olives – #18 – Baetis sp.
Tricos – #22 – 26 – Tricorythodes
White Flies – #12-2xl – Ephoron lukon
Little Tan Sedge – #16 – 18 – Glossosoma sp.
Green Caddis – #16 – Ryacophilia sp.
Tan Caddis #16 – 18 – Hydropsyche spp.

Click on the gauge below for the most recent update:

West Branch at Stilesville, NY 518 cfs
47°
West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY 556 cfs
50°
East Branch at Harvard, NY 203 cfs 61°
East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY 529 cfs
65°
Mainstem at Lordville, NY 1,300 cfs
65°
Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY 265 cfs 63°
Cannonsville Reservoir Release 500 cfs
West Branch at 191 Bridge  N/A 57°
West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) 183 cfs
Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity 86.9%
Pepacton Reservoir Capacity 92%
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