Delaware River Report / Conditions July 11, 2019

Today is the day we finally get a break in the weather.  We should have rain moving in around noon bringing good cloud cover.  The air temp will stay in the high 70’s and the wind will be 10 – 15 mph from the South.  We’ve been dry for quite some time so a lot of the rain should soak into the ground.  We’re still seeing good sulphurs with a few isonychias, cahills, and olives.  The best hatching on the lower West started around 7:30 last night.  Hopefully today’s weather pushes it up into the afternoon.  The upper rivers with the colder water is still your best bet for day time activity.  The release from Cannonsville is 650 cfs.

Blind casting isonychias will bring up fish

The Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, the East Branch at Fishs Eddy, and the Mainstem at Lordville are all starting off today too hot to fish for trout.  If you’re fishing for trout give those areas a break and fish in the cold water closer to the dams or the headwaters of the freestone rivers.

Hatching:
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Sulphur  – #16 – 18 – E. dorothea
Slate Drake – #12-2xl – 12 – Isonychia bicolor
Light Cahill – #14 – Stenocron spp.
Dark Blue Sedge – #14 – Psilotetra sp.
Tan Caddis – #16 – 18 – Hydropsyche sp.
Yellow Sally – #14 – Isoperla sp.
Dark Blue Wing Olives  – #16 – 20 – E. lata, deficiens
Light Blue Wing Olives – #16 – 20 – E. attenuata
Brown Drake – #10-2xl – E. simulans
Tiny Blue Winged Olives – #22 – 26- Pseudo sp.
Golden Stonefly – #8-2xl – Acroneuria sp.
Great Brown Stonefly – #6-2xl – 10-2xl – Pene capita
Green Caddis – #16 – Ryacophilia sp.
Little Tan Sedge – #16 – 18 – Glossosoma sp.

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