Delaware River Report / Conditions July 26, 2016

The release from Cannonsville has been cut back this morning to 497 cfs.  That was a really odd “thermal protection” flow increase.  We were hit by two storms yesterday.  The first one hit us mid day and was quick and powerful with high winds and pounding rain.  The second hit us around 4 pm and lasted longer with more of a steady rain.   A lot of the rain soaked right into the ground but the rivers did come up during the day but dropped back down quickly.  We had a little color to the West Branch right after the storm but it never really became off color.  There were leaves and sticks floating by but the actual water color just had a slight tinge.  The rain brought brief but really heavy olive hatches on the lower West Branch.  After the initial hatch here were enough still coming down to keep some fish up until almost dark.  The upper West Branch is still fishing with sulphurs, isonychias, and olives.

West Branch in the fog yesterday

Hatching:
Slate Drake – 12-2xl- Isonychia bicolor
Sulphur – #16-20 – E dorothea
Light Cahill – #14 – 16 – S. ithaca & canadense
Trico – 22 – 26 – Tricorythodes sp.
Tiny Blue Winged Olive – #22 – 26 – Psuedocloeon spp.
Blue Winged Olive – #18 – 20 – E. lata
Light Blue Winged Olive – #16 – 20 E. attenuatta
Tan Caddis – #16 – 20 – Hydropsyche spp.
Dark Brachycentrus sp. – #14 – 18 – Dark Grannom
Little Black Caddis #18 – 20 – Chimarra sp.
Blue Winged Olives #16 – 18 – Baetis vagans (updated name: Baetis tricaudatus)