The runoff has subsided and most of the rivers re down to normal flows. The West Branch and Upper East Branch are your best bets for cold water and hatches. The colder sections are getting mid day sulphurs while the lower sections turn on early and again as the sun drops. If we get a storm the hatches may push early on the lower West. Especially if we get a steady rain. Today will be warm hitting 86 degree. We should have decent cloud cover with a chance of some afternoon thunderstorms.
The Upper West Branch has stayed very cold this Summer
The Lower East Branch, Mainstem, and Beaverkill at Cooks Falls are all starting off over 70 degrees today. It’s time to give those rivers a break and fish cold water areas.
What’s Hatching:
Sulphur – #16 – 20 – E. dorothea
Light Cahill – #14 – E. invaria
Slate Drake – #12-2xl – 12 – Isonychia bicolor
Tiny Blue Wing Olive – #20 – 24 – Pseudocloeon sp.
Blue Wing Olives – #16 – 20 – D. deficiens, lata
Light Blue Wing Olives – #16 – 20 – E. cornutella, attenuata
Tan Caddis – #16 – 18 – Hydropsyche sp.
Click on the gauge below for the most recent update:
| West Branch at Stilesville, NY | 514 cfs |
45° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 568 cfs |
50° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 281 cfs | 60° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 912 cfs | 65° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 1,940 cfs | 67° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 451 cfs | 65° |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 530 cfs |
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| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 60° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 261 cfs |
70° |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 90.8% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 95.7% |
