Yesterdays rain caused a small bump in flows but the rivers look good this morning and are wadeable. The flows are already dropping back and we are clear. The forecast is calling for additional rain but it seems that the amount predicted each day gets downgraded. Today looks like .15″ unless there is an oddball thunderstorm so we should come through just fine. The cloud cover and cool temperatures have helped and we are seeing decent hatches of olives, march browns, gray fox, and sulphurs in the evenings. Caddis are still fishing well and nymphing / swinging wets has been decent before the dry fly activity starts.
Andrew’s fish from the weekend. Photo by Bob Lewis
Hatching:
Sulphur – #16 – Ephemerella dorothea
Light Cahill – #14 – Ephemerella rotunda
Light Cahill – #14 – Ephemerella invaria
Little BWO – #22 – 26- Pseudocloeon sp.
Hendrickson – #16 – Ephemerella X– (a few still around the West Branch)
March Brown – #10 -2xl – Maccaffertium vicarium
Gray Fox – #12-2xl – Maccaffertium vicarium (Stenonema fuscum)
Blue Wing Olives – #18 – Baetis sp.
Dark Grannom – #14 – 18 – Brachycentrus spp.
Tan Caddis #16 – 18 – Hydropsyche spp.
Little Black Caddis – #18-20 – Chimarra sp.
Click on the gauge below for the most recent update:
| West Branch at Stilesville, NY | 261 cfs |
45° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 419 cfs |
49° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 188 cfs | 51° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 1,050 cfs |
55° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 1,630 cfs |
56° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 543 cfs | 55° |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 303 cfs |
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| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 53° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 511 cfs |
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| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 100.6% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 99.9% |
