Delaware River Report / Conditions May 10, 2015

The bright sun, heat, and low release has caught up to the Mainstem and even the lower East Branch and lower West Branch.  The bright sun has been especially bad the last couple of days heating up the exposed rocks making the rivers warm up quicker.  The warm nights haven’t cooled the rivers down so we are starting off with high temperatures this morning.  If you are going to fish head out very early and end early or wade fish the upper West Branch above Hale Eddy or the upper East Branch above Harvard.  Definitely check the water temps everywhere you go with a thermometer.  Fishs Eddy and the West Branch at 191 both peaked at 70 degrees yesterday afternoon.  Callicoon peaked at almost 75 degrees. As a staff we have decided to stop floating and fishing the Mainstem until water temperatures recede to more normal levels, we expect that you do the same. With that being said a little water, either from nature, or from the dams and this river system will bounce back.

If we are lucky we will get the forecasted 1/2″ of rain over the next few days plus a cooling trend beginning Tuesday night.  Some water and a couple of nights with air temps in the 30’s will help the river immensely.  Hopefully.  We believe the water temps at the Lordville gage are hotter than it is registering.

A lot of companies would kill to have a sales graph that trended like the Mainstem temps

A lot of companies would kill to have a sales graph that trended like the Mainstem water temps

Hatching:
Apple Caddis #16-18 – Light Brachycentrus sp.
Hendrickson – #14 – E. subvaria (male)
Hendrickson – #12 – E. subvaria (female)
Blue Quill – #16 – Paralep. adoptiva
Quill Gordon #14 – Epeorus pluralis
Blue Winged Olives #16 – 18 – Baetis vagans
Little Black Caddis #18 – 20 – Dark Chimarra sp.
Little Black Stoneflies #14 – 18 – Capnidae sp. and Taeniopteryx sp.

FLOWS AS OF 8:00 AM:
West Branch at Stilesville, NY 161 cfs @ 42º
West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY 252 cfs @ 61º
East Branch at Harvard, NY 88 cfs @ 56º
East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY 563 cfs @ 60º
Mainstem at Lordville, NY 1,130 cfs @ 62º
Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY 284 cfs @ N/A
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