Delaware River Report / Conditions August 24, 2015

We woke up to another cool morning with early f0g that has now burned off.  We should see some warmer air temperatures today with high’s reaching the low 80’s.  Accuweather is calling for a late afternoon / early evening thunderstorm with precipitation of only .15″.  On the West Branch drainage most of that will be soaked into the ground so we don’t expect much of a change.  The cloud cover should help the fishing on the lower sections hopefully pushing the olives to hatch a little earlier in the day.  There has been some decent flying ant activity in the afternoons.  Most of them are small and hard to see on the water, especially when they are mixed in with the pseudos.  If you get rejections on the olives try the ants.

We had great weather over the weekend for casting practice

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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