The release from Cannonsville was micro adjusted down but not enough to make a difference. The flow at Stilesville is 915 cfs. Today looks like the last unseasonably warm day for a while at 70 degrees. Tomorrow will feel like a more normal October in the high 50’s. We’re still seeing a few heptagenia and isonychias but it mostly the small olives bringing the fish to net. There are still a lot of caddis in the bushes and a few are hitting the water but that’s luck. Nymphing and streamers should be the best bets early and then the olives in the slow pools in the afternoon. Wind will be 7 mph with gusts to 12 so try to find a protected area in the afternoon.
An olive eater from yesterday
There is some color in the West Branch from the release. The higher the release the more color will be in the river. It happens every Fall when the reservoir begins to turn over.
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Slate Drake – #14 – Isonychia bicolor
Olive Sulphur – #18 -20 – Heptagenia hebe
Tiny Olive – #22 – 26 – Pseudocloeon sp.
Tan Caddis – #18 – 20 – Hydropsyche sp.
Ginger Caddis – #14 – 16 Limnephilis sp.
Dark Blue Wing Olives – #18 – 20 – E. deficiens, lata
Click on the gauge below for the most recent update:
| West Branch at Stilesville, NY | 915 cfs |
56° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 1,120 cfs |
55° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 92 cfs | 57° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 181 cfs | 60° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 1,330 cfs | 58° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 135 cfs | 58° |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 900 cfs |
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| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 56° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 101 cfs |
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| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 44.7% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 72.2% |
