Delaware River Report / Conditions October 10, 2016

The release from Cannonsville is 193 cfs.  The Mainstem at Lordville is a ridiculous 419 cfs. What can you even say about that.
The wind was tough yesterday so while we saw a fair amount of mayflies and caddis most of the fishing was underneath.  We are coming off a cooler night so water temperatures have dropped a bit on the East Branch and Mainstem.  Today will stay cool with some winds in the afternoon dropping into the evening.  I looks like another good day to nymph, swing wet flies, or strip small woolly buggers in the riffles.  If you find a wind break definitely have your small olives, isonychias, and heptagenia patterns ready.

 

Hatching:
Slate Drake – #12 – 14- Isonychia bicolor
Olive Sulphur – #18 – 20– Heptagenia hebe
Tiny Blue Winged Olive – #22 – 26 – Psuedocloeon spp.
Blue Winged Olive – #18 – 20 – E. lata
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 163 cfs
53°
West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY 237 cfs
52°
East Branch at Harvard, NY 110 cfs 47°
East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY 184 cfs
51°
Mainstem at Lordville, NY 419 cfs
54°
Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY 59 cfs N/A
Cannonsville Reservoir Release 193 cfs
West Branch at 191 Bridge  N/A 50°
West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) 60 cfs
Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity 45.3%
Pepacton Reservoir Capacity 71.2%
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