The release from Cannonsville was bumped slightly higher this morning and has settled in at 900 cfs. It’s time to find your high water wade spots on the West Branch and concentrate on the slower edges and tailouts of pools for rising fish. Both the East Branch and Mainstem are a little on the low side and offer great wading opportunities. Those two rivers would be my first choice for nymphing before the hatches start. We have seen the olives coming off mid-afternoon despite the sunshine. Some sections are also seeing the beginning of the Heptagenia and Fall Isonychia hatches.
Tom again from a few days ago. Photo by Jared Makowski
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 | 923 cfs |
58° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 931 cfs |
56° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 130 cfs | 50° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 279 cfs | 53° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 1,260 cfs | 56° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 138 cfs | N/A |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 900 cfs | |
| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 56° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 164 cfs | |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 56.6% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 74.9% |
