After the last few weeks a day at 53 degrees with sunshine makes it feel like July out on the river! Yesterday’s warmup certainly made the fish more active and pushed some of the bugs to hatch. We saw early stoneflies, little black caddis, and some blue winged olives hatching yesterday with a few fish starting to eat off the surface. The surface activity should continue to improve with the weather this week so the blue quills can’t be too far behind. Nymphing was still the most effective method yesterday and yesterday was definitely the best day so far this season. Today’s air temperature should hit 55 degrees, sun, with winds around 7 mph. The river system is warmer this morning than yesterday so our water temperatures should peak higher today. After starting off around 38 degrees yesterday morning the West Branch under the 191 Bridge peaked at 49 degrees by the late afternoon. Today we are starting off at 44 degrees. Cannonsville reservoir is spilling 36 cfs this morning which is great news to help counter the pathetic release of 74 cfs under table 4A of the FFMP. The spill should continue with an inflow from Walton of 830 cfs this morning.
Hatching:
Blue Winged Olives #16 – 18 – Baetis vagans
Little Black Caddis #18 – 20 – Dark Chimarra sp.
Little Black Stoneflies #14 – 18 – Capnidae sp. and Taeniopteryx sp.
FLOWS AS OF 8:00 AM: | |
West Branch at Stilesville, NY | 114 cfs @ 41º |
West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 460 cfs @ 43º |
East Branch at Harvard, NY | 246 cfs @ 40º |
East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 1,310 cfs @ 43º |
Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 2,750 cfs @ 44º |
Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 820 cfs @ N/A |