After listening to the stories in the shop all summer let’s dispel a rumor. You do not need a 16 – 20 foot leader with multiple feet of tippet to catch fish on the West Branch in the Summer. What you need is a really great presentation. Stop by the DRC this Saturday morning between 9 and 12 for a free Summer Clinic. We’ll cover casting techniques, leaders, flies, and hatches. Frank Audino will be giving fly tying demonstrations so bring your vise if you want to pick up some techniques. Send us an email at flyfish@thedelawareriverclub.com and let us know if you are coming.
Jack with another fish from Sunday. And again Pat caught nothing. Photo by Samantha Dennis
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 | 1,100 cfs |
49° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 1,190 cfs |
50° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 159 cfs | 56° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 246 cfs | 64° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 1,100 cfs | 61° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 92 cfs | N/A |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 1,120 cfs | |
| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 52° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 49 cfs | |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 67.7% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 80.1% |
