The release from Cannonsville has been increased to 797 cfs this morning to help meet the Montague flow target. There is very little flow being added from the feeders so the West Branch shouldn’t end up much higher than the release. The increased flow has also increased the amount of weeds and algae floating in the upper section. It mostly filters out by mid river but you will still see some. Accuweather is calling for another sunny hot day today with air temperatures approaching 90. Winds should be light with gusts only around 6 mph. We are still fishing olives, small sulphurs, plus a few cahills and isonychias. The lower East Branch and upper Mainstem are still to hot to fish.
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 | 813 cfs | 49° |
West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 885 cfs |
50° |
East Branch at Harvard, NY | 151 cfs | 57° |
East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 216cfs | 67° |
Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 1140 cfs |
64° |
Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 84 cfs | N/A |
Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 797 cfs | |
West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 54° |
West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 74 cfs | |
Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 67% | |
Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 83.3% |