The cooler temperatures have been nice but we did have some wind to contend with yesterday as the front pushed through. Nymphing was the most productive method until the wind finally died down in the evening. We’re still fishing small olives and sulphurs. We have seen a few of the Fall isonychias and heptagenias flying around. Those hatches should pick up over the next couple of weeks. The cool weather has dropped the water temperatures and both the Mainstem at Lordville and the East Branch at Fishs Eddy are starting off at 59 degrees this morning. Our air temperatures will creep back up into the 80’s over the next few days but that looks short lived with very cool nights.
Jason Shermer with the largest Tiger Trout we’ve seen.
Hatching:
Slate Drake #12 – Isonychia bicolor
Sulphur #18-20 – E. dorothea
Tricos #22 – 26 – Tricorythodes sp.
Light Cahills #14 – various steno species (invaria, etc)
Tiny Blue Wing Olives #22-26 – Pseudo sp. (now classified as Acentrella sp.)
Charcoal Caddis #14 -16 – dark Brachycentrus sp.
Tan Caddis #16-18 – Hydrosyche sp.
Blue Winged Olives #16 – 18 – Baetis sp.
Flying ants #16-24
| West Branch at Stilesville, NY | 377 cfs | 50° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 485 cfs |
52° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 153 cfs | 50° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 264 cfs | 59° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 924 cfs |
59° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 118 cfs | N/A |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 394 cfs | |
| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 55° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 119 cfs | |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 63.8% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 80% |
