The stretch of sunny weather has broken and we woke up to cloud cover and light intermittent showers this morning. This is starting off as the best looking fishing day we’ve seen in a while. Air temperatures will be a little cooler with highs in the 60′ with a wind of 5 mph. We should see decent hatches of olives along with sulphurs, cahills, and caddis. The West Branch is at decent levels for floating and wading right now. Temperatures look great on the West with 49 degrees at Hale Eddy.
Watch the temperatures on the Mainstem and the lower East Branch. The Mainstem at Lordville peaked at 68 degrees yesterday and the East Branch at Fishs Eddy peaked over 70 degrees yesterday. The weather should help those rivers today but they are also starting off warmer this morning than yesterday. Double check them with your thermometer.
Walter with a nice brown the other day. Photo by Bob Lewis
Hatching:
Slate Drake – 12-2xl- Isonychia bicolor
Pink Lady – #14 – Epeorus vitreus
Sulphur – #16-18 – E dorothea
Light Cahill – #14 – 16 – S. ithaca & canadense
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 | 486 cfs |
44° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 580 cfs |
49° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 179 cfs | 59° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 375 cfs | 64° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 1,010 cfs | 65° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 166 cfs | N/A |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 497 cfs | |
| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 56° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 153 cfs | |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 93.9% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 96.5% |
