Delaware River Report: July 16, 2023

The aqueduct work has been pushed off again. It is now scheduled for Fall of 2024.

12:30 update. The off color water has reached the lower West Branch. Hopefully any additional rain misses us and we can start to clear

We were hit with more rain overnight and the flow at Hale Eddy is 1,300 cfs and climbing. Homepool is off color. The West Branch above Oquaga Creek hasn’t budged and is running low and clear with a 500 cfs release. We should have the normal midday sulphurs and small olives up there again today. The lower West is looking good for streamers with a possibility of some dry fly fishing later in the afternoon if we stay clear. There is a potential for heavy thunderstorms so keep an eye on the radar. A lot of them slide around us but we’ve been hit a couple of times already this week.

The Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, East Branch at Fishs Eddy, and Mainstem at Lordville will peak over 70 degrees today. It’s time to give these sections a break and fish the colder water.

Today will be 80 degrees with a mostly cloudy sky in the morning and a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Wind will be 5 – 10 mph from the South.

What’s Hatching:
Sulphur – #16 – 20 – E. dorothea
Slate Drake – 12-2xl – 12 – Isonychia bicolor
Dark Blue Wing Olive – #18 – 20 – deficiens, lata
Pale Evening Dun – #14 – Epeorus vitreus
Tiny Blue Wing Olive – #22 – 26 – Pseudocleon sp.
Light Cahill – #14 – E. invaria, rotunda, Stenocron spp.
Olive Caddis – #16 – 18 – Ryacophilia sp.
Tan Caddis – #16 – 18 – Hydropsyche sp.
Dark Blue Wing Olive – #16 – 18 – Baetis spp.

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