Delaware River Report / Conditions September 1, 2015

The release from Cannonsville has been cut back slightly but we still have a decent flow at Stilesville of 577 cfs this morning.  The current release is 579 cfs.
We are facing another warm day with air temperatures around 85 degrees, sunshine, and winds of 4 mph.  Thursday looks like our first shot at getting some rain with a 40% chance of thunderstorms.
We are still fishing olives with some small sulphurs mixed in.  Keep an eye out for flying ants- especially on humid afternoons.  A few isonychias and cahills round out the hatching.  We should start to see more fall caddis as we get into September.

The up and down release.  Levels are sill decent for floating and wading

The classic 24 hour up and down release. Levels are sill decent for floating and wading

Hatching:
Slate Drake #12 – Isonychia bicolor
Sulphur #18-20 – E. dorothea
Tricos #22 – 26 – Tricorythodes sp.
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.
Flying ants #16-24

West Branch at Stilesville, NY 577 cfs 47°
West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY 654 cfs
49°
East Branch at Harvard, NY 156 cfs 57°
East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY 261 cfs 67°
Mainstem at Lordville, NY 1,070 cfs
65°
Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY 108 cfs N/A
Cannonsville Reservoir Release 579 cfs
West Branch at 191 Bridge  N/A 55°
West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) 113 cfs
Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity 68.1%
Pepacton Reservoir Capacity 84.7%
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