Delaware River Report / Conditions August 30, 2015

We’re coming off a warm night and looking at another day with air temperatures around 80 degrees.  Accuweather is calling for mostly sun with humidity.  There is a chance for a shower in the early evening but the precipitation amount should be negligible.  Hopefully the warm weather and humidity push more flying ants out of the ground and onto the water.  The sulphur hatches are definitely waning leaving us with olives until we get the push of fall mayflies.  There are enough remnant sulphurs hatching to bring some fish to the surface but patience is definitely called for right now.   Nymphing during the day has been effective.

We've seen a lot of small olives lately. Look for patterns you can see on the water

We’ve seen a lot of small olives lately. Look for patterns you can see on the water

Hatching:
Slate Drake #12 – Isonychia bicolor
Sulphur #18-20 – E. dorothea
Tricos #22 – 26 – Tricorythodes sp.
Light Cahills #14 – various steno species (invaria, etc)
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 sp.
Flying ants #16-24

West Branch at Stilesville, NY 494 cfs 45°
West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY 570 cfs
49°
East Branch at Harvard, NY 159 cfs 56°
East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY 276 cfs 64°
Mainstem at Lordville, NY 974 cfs
63°
Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY 116 cfs N/A
Cannonsville Reservoir Release 500 cfs
West Branch at 191 Bridge  N/A 55°
West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) 138 cfs
Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity 68.8%
Pepacton Reservoir Capacity 85.8%
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