Delaware River Report / Conditions August 21, 2016

It looks like a stormy day that is finally going to push in some cooler weather.  We are cloudy this morning with thunderstorms predicted to hit us mid day.  It seems up in the air whether we will receive 1/4″ or 3/4″ of rain.  Either way most of it should soak right into the ground.  We should get decent olive hatches during the rain mixed in the sulphurs.  Hopefully the cooler nights over the next few days drop the water temperatures to decent hatching levels on the lower West Branch.  A lot of our hatches have been coming off at night but that may change with the weather.  The upper West Branch is still seeing sulphurs and olives mixed with a few golden drakes and isonychias.  If the river turns a little off color with the rain we should have decent fishing on dark streamers.  Nymphing has still been decent on the West Branch especially before the sun hits the water and burns the fog off.  The cloud cover should extend that this morning.

We will post an update if there are any changes due to the rain

Hatching:
Slate Drake – 12-2xl- Isonychia bicolor
Sulphur – #16-20 – E dorothea
Light Cahill – #14 – 16 – S. ithaca & canadense
Golden Drake – #12-2xl – Potomanthus
Trico – 22 – 26 – Tricorythodes sp.
Tiny Blue Winged Olive – #22 – 26 – Psuedocloeon spp.
Blue Winged Olive – #18 – 20 – E. lata
Light Blue Winged Olive – #16 – 20 E. attenuatta
Tan Caddis – #16 – 20 – Hydropsyche spp.
Dark Brachycentrus sp. – #14 – 18 – Dark Grannom
Little Black Caddis #18 – 20 – Chimarra sp.
Blue Winged Olives #16 – 18 – Baetis vagans (updated name: Baetis tricaudatus)