The runoff is subsiding and the West Branch at Hale Eddy flow is back to the 750 cfs range. We didn’t even get enough rain yesterday to knock the dust down on the roads. People did well on streamers in the morning but the bite dropped off when the sun really popped out and the river cleared. Today will be much cooler hitting 84 degrees with light and variable wind. It will be mostly sunshine. We should see the nighttime temp drop into the mid 50’s. That should help the water temps a little.
The lower East Branch, lower Beaverkill, and Mainstem will be too hot to fish today. The water temps peaked at or over 70 degrees yesterday and are starting off warmer this morning. Please give these rivers a break and fish the cold water areas.
Jeremy Shurites with a nice one yesterday. Photo by Mike DacCurzio
What’s Hatching:
March Brown – #10-2xl – M. vicarium
Gray Fox – #12-2xl – M. vicarium
Sulphur – #16 – 18 – E. dorothea
Green Drake – #8-2xl – E. guttalata
Brown Drake – #10 – E. simulans
Light Cahill – #14 – E. vitreus (male), invaria
Pink Lady – #14 – E. vitreus (female)
Tiny Blue Wing Olive – #20 – 24 – Pseudocloeon sp.
Blue Wing Olives – #16 – 18 – Baetis vagans
Tan Caddis – #16 – 18 – Hydropsyche sp.
Grannom Fly – #14 – 18 – Dark Brachycentrus sp. just a few left
Click on the gauge below for the most recent update:
| West Branch at Stilesville, NY | 521 cfs |
45° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 779 cfs |
52° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 226 cfs | 58° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 553 cfs | 66° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 1,850 cfs | 66° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 274 cfs | 66° |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 500 cfs |
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| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 57° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 549 cfs |
67° |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 99.6% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 99.5% |
