We have a decent frost on the ground this morning and the river temperatures dropped overnight. It will take a little longer for the system to warm up today. The flows are dropping back and now the West Branch is in great shape for wading with a flow at Hale Eddy of 374 cfs. It will be higher as you move down stream due to the runoff from the tributaries. Clarity isn’t bad throughout the system. We should see some sun today with air temperatures in the low 50’s. Winds shouldn’t be a factor with gusts to 4 mph. We may have some light rain moving in overnight but we should see any precipitation until after dark. Hopefully the lower water on the West Branch concentrates the small olives enough to get the fish looking up.
Hatching:
Slate Drake #14 – Isonychia bicolor
Olive Sulphur #18 – 20 – Heptagenia hebe
Light Cahills #14 – various steno species (invaria, etc)
Tiny Blue Wing Olives #22-26 – Pseudo sp. (now classified as Acentrella sp.)
Charcoal Caddis #14 -16 – dark Brachycentrus sp.
Tan Caddis #16-18 – Hydrosyche sp.
Blue Winged Olives #16 – 18 – Baetis sp.
| West Branch at Stilesville, NY | 145 cfs |
52° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 362 cfs |
49° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 374 cfs | 43° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 1,240 cfs | 44° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 2,250 cfs | 46° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 798 cfs | N/A |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 150 cfs | |
| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 45° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 1,060 cfs | |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 49.2% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 70.6% |
