Let’s hope we get the 500cfs release from Cannonsville tomorrow morning. We are coming into a few days of cooler weather but that’s all relative. We are still warmer than normal with air temperatures predicted to be 84 degrees today. All of the thunderstorms missed us. We’ve only had a few drops of rain over the last week or so. The East Branch at Fishs Eddy is starting off at 67 degrees this morning and the Mainstem at Lordville is beginning at 70 degrees. Skip those to rivers and use your thermometer to check temps if you fish the lower West Branch or the East Branch below Harvard.
We have been finding a lot of Green Drakes and Coffin Flies around so don’t leave the river too early. You may also see some tan caddis (#16-20) some sulphurs (#16-18), and some light cahills #14.
Hatching:
Green Drakes – 8-2xl – 10-2xl – E. Guttalata
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
Light Brachycentrus sp. – #16 – 18 – Apple Caddis
Little Black Caddis #18 – 20 – Chimarra sp.
Blue Winged Olives #16 – 18 – Baetis vagans (updated name: Baetis tricaudatus)
| West Branch at Stilesville, NY | 345 cfs |
45° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 477 cfs |
51° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 167 cfs | 61° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 501 cfs | 67° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 1,150 cfs | 70° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 217 cfs | N/A |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 381 cfs | |
| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 60° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 176 cfs | |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 99.6% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 99.3% |
