Yesterday was tough for dry flies without a lot of hatching. There were some very, very tiny olives out but the fish didn’t seem interested. Nymphing and streamers were the most productive methods. We had a front push through that gave us a little rain overnight but the flows didn’t budge much. It did bring cooler air temperatures with today’s high forecasted to be 67 degrees. We need a little cold weather to kick off the fall hatches of isonychias and heptagenias so this is a welcome change. The winds are shifting to downstream today with gusts around 11 mph.
Hope and Morale on the Delaware providing respite and recreational opportunities for wounded service members engaged in the long process of recovery. It’s been a great weekend!
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 | 1,020 cfs | 55° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 1,140 cfs |
54° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 110 cfs | 59° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 164 cfs | 65° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 1,340 cfs |
62° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 77 cfs | N/A |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 1,007 cfs | |
| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 56° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 67 cfs | |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 63% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 78.6% |
