Today is looking like it will end up a mirror image of yesterday. Partly cloudy and a little cooler. The flows are still around 800 cfs on the West Branch. Some sections are good for wading and the entire river is good for floating. The Mainstem water temperatures stayed in decent shape down to Lordville. The hatching still seems off but there were a few fish landed. You definitely have to make the most of the opportunities you get. Most of the fish landed on dry flies yesterday came on small olives or light cahills.
Art found a riser yesterday. Photo by Bob Lewis
Hatching:
Slate Drake – 12-2xl- Isonychia bicolor
Sulphur – #16-20 – E dorothea
Light Cahill – #14 – 16 – S. ithaca & canadense
Golden Drake – #12-2xl – Potomanthus
Trico – 22 – 26 – Tricorythodes sp.
Tiny Blue Winged Olive – #22 – 26 – Psuedocloeon spp.
Blue Winged Olive – #18 – 20 – E. lata
Light Blue Winged Olive – #16 – 20 E. attenuatta
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 | 790 cfs |
48° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 853 cfs |
49° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 162 cfs | 55° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 261 cfs | 63° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 895 cfs | 61° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 100 cfs | N/A |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 795 cfs | |
| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 52° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 54 cfs | |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 68.5% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 80.2% |
