Delaware River Report / Conditions August 23, 2015

We’re coming off another cool night which helps the river temperatures.  The West Branch continues to be in great shape while the lower East Branch and upper Mainstem are peaking over 70 degrees in the afternoons.  We’ll see slightly higher air temperatures today with mostly sun.  The flying ants have been around so take a close look at the water if you see fish rising during the day.  Sulphurs and small olives are the main mayflies we’re seeing.  There are a few cahills and isonychias around but we’re not seeing the numbers we had a few weeks ago.  Nymphing has been effective during the day and streamers have worked okay while the fog is still on the water in the early morning.  Once the fog burns off keep an eye out for tricos in the long, slow pools.  They haven’t been incredibly predictable but we are finding fishable spinner falls on odd mornings.

Jim with a nice rainbow yesterday. Photo by Samantha Dennis

Note:  There are a lot of green weeds floating on the upper West Branch so check your fly often

Hatching:
Slate Drake #12 – Isonychia bicolor
Sulphur #18-20 – E. dorothea
Light Cahills #14 – various steno species (invaria, etc)
Golden Drake #12-2xl – Potomanthus distinctus
PED / Pink Lady #14 – E. vitreus
Large Blue Winged Olive #14 – D. cornuta
Tiny Blue Wing Olives #22-26 – Pseudo sp. (now classified as Acentrella sp.)
Charcoal Caddis #14 -16 – dark Brachycentrus sp.
Tan Caddis #16-18 – Hydrosyche sp.
Blue Winged Olives #16 – 18 – Baetis vagans
Flying ants #16-24

Flows and Temps as of 8:00 AM:
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