Delaware River Report / Conditions July 29, 2016

The weather reports are constantly changing and as of this morning we are only looking at a 20% chance of rain today, cooler air temperatures, and low winds.  They have now shifted the strom forecast to tomorrow with a 60% chance of 1″ of rain.  I’m sure that prediction will change again this afternoon.  The East side of the river system did get hit with some showers last night and there was a slight increase in flow on the upper East Branch, the Beaverkill, and the lower East Branch.  The West Branch is pretty much the same as where we started yesterday morning.  Water temperatures are still high on the East Branch (stay above Harvard) and on the Mainstem.  The entire West Branch is holding on and temperatures are decent.
We are still ssing good hatches of sulphurs (#16-20), cahills (#14), golden drakes (#12-2xl), and olives (#18-26) on the upper West.  The fish have been picky so we’ve been using a lot of low floating flies like compara emergers.,

 

Tony and Samantha with a West Branch brown in the sunshine

Tony and Samantha with a West Branch brown in the sunshine

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)

West Branch at Stilesville, NY 502 cfs
46°
West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY 570 cfs
49°
East Branch at Harvard, NY 295 cfs 60°
East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY 360 cfs 71°
Mainstem at Lordville, NY 905 cfs 70°
Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY 178 cfs N/A
Cannonsville Reservoir Release 497 cfs
West Branch at 191 Bridge  N/A 56°
West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) 62 cfs
Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity 76.9%
Pepacton Reservoir Capacity 87.5%
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