Delaware River Report / Conditions August 18, 2017

We woke up to a light rain this morning but so far it’s soaked into the ground.  It looks like the first round of heavy weather went south of us.  There is the potential for a few storms this afternoon but they’re going to be isolated so we’ll have to wait and see.  It’s nice to see the clouds and light rain after the last few days of sun.  This has been The Summer of Olives and this definitely feels like another olive day.  Hopefully the weather pushes a few more sulphurs, isonychias, golden drakes, and cahills.  We’ve seen isolated decent hatching of those but it would be nice to see it river wide.  These humid days always have to potential to bring out the flying ants too.

 

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
48°
West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY 552 cfs
52°
East Branch at Harvard, NY 246 cfs 59°
East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY 479 cfs
68°
Mainstem at Lordville, NY 1,200 cfs
67°
Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY 243 cfs 66°
Cannonsville Reservoir Release 500 cfs
West Branch at 191 Bridge  N/A 60°
West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) 141 cfs
Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity 84.8%
Pepacton Reservoir Capacity 90.6%
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