NY dropped the Cannonsville release to 300 cfs yesterday only to turn around and ramp the water back up this morning. According to the recording we should settle into a 650 cfs release this morning. The additional water is for the downstream flow targets. Dropping and then raising the water like this in a 24 hour period is great reminder of NYC DEP’s total disregard for downstream users. The normal percentage of storage for NYC’s water supply on September 16th is 74.6%. The current storage this morning is 81.1%.
The bright sun made fishing tough during the day yesterday. Nymphing was decent early until the bright sun made it’s appearance. We had a mid-afternoon bonus of flying ants that got things going a little earlier than the olives. In the evening we had the normal olive hatches mixed with few sulphurs. The ants ruled the day though.
Flying Ants coming out of the ground yesterday
Maybe someone at DEP gets a bonus for every single drop of water kept behind that dam
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 | 538 cfs | 52° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 455 cfs climbing |
55° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 115 cfs | 55° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 186 cfs | 62° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 705 cfs |
65° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 88 cfs | N/A |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 650 cfs | |
| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 59° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 79 cfs | |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 63.5% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 79.3% |
