Delaware River Report / Conditions September 8, 2015

The release from Cannonsville has been increased again to 969 cfs to help meet downstream flow targets.  The flow of 1,050 cfs should make Art happy this morning.  When they raise the water we are seeing the green weeds / slime increase above Hale Eddy but it has still be okay to fish with a dry fly.  As you move down the river the floating weeds filter out.  Nymphing has still been the best technique during the bright sunny days.  We are seeing a few flushes of mayflies during the day but a lot of the action is in the evening.  We are coming off a hot day and a warm night.  The East Branch at Fishs Eddy is starting off at 68 degrees this morning and the Mainstem a Lordville is 63 degrees.  We are facing another sunny day with air temperatures approaching 90.  The system definitely needs the rain Accuweather is forecasting for tomorrow and Thursday.  No change in the hatching.  Olives, small sulphurs, some cahills, and a few isonychias.  We are still seeing some tricos in the morning and there is always a possibility of flying ants out there with the current weather conditions.

Brooke found one in the bright sun. Photo by Jared Makowski

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