Patience has been the key to daytime fishing for the last few days. Nymphing has paid off but there have been fish rising to daytime Stenos / Cahills sporadically even in the sun. Once you find a riser sit on it. they’ve been coming up three or four time and taking a break. If you wait long enough you will get a shot- just make the first cast count. As the sun drops the suface activity has been decent with the Sulphurs, Cahills, and Isonychias coming off and lasting into dark. If you see the fish eating the sulphurs a few inches under the surface try a wet fly or swing a pheasant tail. the rivers are dropping back and beginning to clear but the West Branch continues to offer the best fishing opportunity.
Bruce Miller’s boat landed this one yesterday
And Bruce’s boat again yesterday
Hatching:
Sulphurs #16 -20 E. dorothea
Light Cahill #14 – E. Invaria
Pale Evening Dun #14 Epeorus vitreus
Tan Caddis #16 – 18- Hydrosyche sp.
Tiny Blue Wing Olives #22 – 26 – Pseudocloeon sp.
Slate Drakes #12-2xl – Isonychia bicolor
Charcoal Caddis #16-18 – Dk Brachycentrus sp.
| FLOWS AS OF 8:00 AM: | |
| West Branch at Stilesville, NY | 502 cfs @ 44º |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 595 cfs @ 48º |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 1,430 cfs @ 64º |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 2,290 cfs @ 65º |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 3,480 cfs @ 66º |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 602 cfs @ N/A |
