Delaware River Report / Conditions September 5, 2015

No real changes from yesterday.  The thunderstorms either never materialized or totally missed us although we did get a little cloud cover in the early evening.  The flow at Hale Eddy has leveled out at 756 cfs.  The additional release appears to be to meet the downstream flow target.  Water temperatures remain fine on the West Branch and the hatching remains the same.  Small olives, flushes of sulphurs, a few cahills, and the odd isonychia will cover you for most of the river.  We are seeing some tricos spinners in the morning on the larger pools and the flying ants remain a possibility everyday while we have the warm, humid weather.  Both the lower East Branch at Fishs Eddy and the Mainstem at Lordville peaked over 70 degrees yesterday.
Today we are looking at sunshine with air temperatures around 80 degrees.  Wind gusts should only be 5 mph out of the Southeast.

 

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 665 cfs 49°
West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY 756 cfs
50°
East Branch at Harvard, NY 151 cfs 57°
East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY 226cfs 68°
Mainstem at Lordville, NY 1090 cfs
66°
Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY 90 cfs N/A
Cannonsville Reservoir Release 675 cfs
West Branch at 191 Bridge  N/A 56°
West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) 85 cfs
Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity 67%
Pepacton Reservoir Capacity 83.3%
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