After a day of nice steady rain the rivers held their own and everything looks good this morning. The flows bumped up a bit but not too bad. The water is dropping back and everything look fishable here in Hancock. There were decent olives on some sections yesterday afternoon. A lot of the fish were eating the emergers just under the surface so timing and patience played a huge role. We saw a few cahills and isonychias but really it was all about the olives. Today is going to be much warmer with the air temperatures approaching the high 70’s. The clouds will give way to sun in the afternoon wind winds around 10 mph. With the warmer air temperatures and wet ground this has the potential to be a decent flying ant day.
A nice brown from yesterday. Photo by Bruce Miller
Hatching:
Slate Drake #12-2xl – 12 – Isonychia bicolor
Sulphur – #16 – 20 – Ephemerella dorothea
Golden Drake – 12-2xl – Potomanthus distinctus
Light Cahill – #14 – Summer Sulphurs, Stenocron spp.
Little BWO – #22 – 26- Pseudocloeon sp.
Blue Wing Olives – #18 – Baetis sp.
Tricos – #22 – 26 – Tricorythodes
Olive Sulphur – #18 – 20 – Heptagenia hebe
Little Tan Sedge – #16 – 18 – Glossosoma sp.
Green Caddis – #16 – Ryacophilia sp.
Tan Caddis #16 – 18 – Hydropsyche spp.
Click on the gauge below for the most recent update:
| West Branch at Stilesville, NY | 374 cfs |
48° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 529 cfs |
50° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 173 cfs | 51° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 441 cfs |
56° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 1,170 cfs |
57° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 193 cfs | 57° |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 401 cfs |
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| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 53° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 207 cfs |
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| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 81.5% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 87.4% |
