According to the DEP recording the release from Cannonsville has been dropped t0 664 cfs this morning. The Hale Eddy flow will drop over the next few hours and level out around 700 cfs – unless they drop the release further during the day. This will make wading a bit easier in some of the pools and floating is still fine. The West Branch is still the best bet since the East Branch at Fishs Eddy peaked at 75 degrees yesterday and the Mainstem peaked around 68 degrees at Lordville. The upper East Branch near Pepacton Dam is cool but it is very low and clear making fishing tough. The hatches seem to come in minor flushes yesterday and never built into one decent hatch. The bugs are still the same with olives, sulphurs, cahills, and some isonychias. We found some fish rising on the slow edges and patience was definitely the key. We did have a lot of green weeds / slime floating own the West Branch yesterday. There is some color to the water coming out of Cannonsville but the clarity is fine for fishing. Both seem to be the norm for Fall fishing over the last few years.
Tony with a respectable fish yesterday
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 | 676 cfs | 50° |
| West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY | 931 cfs |
51° |
| East Branch at Harvard, NY | 148 cfs | 57° |
| East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY | 208 cfs | 68° |
| Mainstem at Lordville, NY | 1,350 cfs |
65° |
| Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY | 79 cfs | N/A |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Release | 664 cfs | |
| West Branch at 191 Bridge | N/A | 53° |
| West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) | 65 cfs | |
| Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity | 65.2% | |
| Pepacton Reservoir Capacity | 81.9% |
