We are coming off another cool night so water temperatures look great throughout the system. The water temperature in Callicoon peaked in the mid 60’s yesterday which is great for mid-June. We should have some cloud cover today with an 80% chance of precipitation around 1 PM. Rainfall totals should be around 1/4″ which will help keep the rivers in good shape. Winds will be manageable with gusts around 10 mph. All in all it looks like a good fishing day.
Sulphurs, Isonychias, and caddis. You may run into flushes of cahills depending on what river section you fish. Nymphing has been working well in the morning before the hatches begin. Today’s forecast says Blue Winged Olives so carry that box with light and dark flies #16 -24 just in case.
Tim with a brown yesterday. Photo by Samantha Dennis
Hatching:
Slate Drake – 12-2xl- Isonychia bicolor
Green Drakes – 8-2xl – 10-2xl – E. Guttalata
Brown Drakes – 10-2xl- E. simulans
March Browns – #10-2xl – Maccaffertium vicarium (formerly Stenonema vicarium)
Gray Fox #12-2xl- Maccaffertium vicarium (formerly Stenonema fuscum)
Pink Lady – #14 – Epeorus vitreus
Sulphur – #16-18 – E dorothea
Light Blue Winged Olive – #14 E. cornuta
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)
| West Branch at Stilesville, NY | 502 cfs |
43° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 616 cfs |
47° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 200 cfs | 54° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 467 cfs | 58° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 1,190 cfs | 59° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 213 cfs | N/A |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 500 cfs | |
| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 53° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 193 cfs | |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 96.2% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 97.8% |
