Delaware River Report / Conditions May 23, 2015

We are coming off another cold night that dropped into the 30’s.  It’s been great news for the river system with all the rivers starting off cool this morning.  Yesterday was another mix of green drakes, sulphurs, march browns, and gray fox.  The hatching did seem to be concentrated in certain areas so it wasn’t river wide.  The fish were a little shy when the sun was bright but they adjusted and a lot of people were able to find some nice fish eating.  The wind was the biggest issue but protected areas fished well.

Today’s forecast looks good with light winds, temps in the 60’s, with a little more sun.  Mid afternoon is seeing the best activity as the water warms up a bit but keep an eye out earlier for morning spinner falls, left over flies, and caddis.  We have another cool night ahead of us before we come into a heat wave.  The march brown and green drake spinners should be coming soon.

George with a nice brown from yesterday. Photo by Steve Shen

Hatching:
Sulphur #16-18 – E. dorothea
Green Drake #8-2xl – E. guttulata
PED / Pink Lady #14 – E. vitreus
Tiny Blue Wing Olives #22-26 – Pseudo sp. (now classified as Acentrella sp.)
March Brown #10-2xl – S. vicarium (now classified as Maccaffertioum vicarium)
Gray Fox #12-2xl – S. fuscum (now also classified as Maccaffertioum vicarium)
Hendrickson #16 – E. X species
Tan Caddis #16-18 – Hydrosyche sp.
Blue Winged Olives #16 – 18 – Baetis vagans
Little Black Caddis #18 – 20 – Dark Chimarra sp.

Flows and Temps as of 8:00 AM:
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