Delaware River Report: July 10, 2023

The aqueduct work has been pushed off again. It is now scheduled for Fall of 2024.

The West Branch looks fine this morning despite yesterday’s rain. The flow at Hale Eddy is 643 cfs – so only about 30 cfs higher than yesterday morning. Homepool is clear. The flows are up more in the Eastern drainage. The West should fish like normal with daytime sulphur and olive opportunities in Deposit and evening dry fly opportunities with Isonychias, cahills, and a few sulphurs on the lower west once the sun starts to drop. If we do get rain the bugs could push earlier on the lower West. Nymphing is still best on the lower West due to the algae in the upper river,

The Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, East Branch at Fishs Eddy, and Mainstem at Lordville all peaked over 70 degrees yesterday. It’s time to give these sections a break and fish the colder water.

Today will 78 degrees with clouds and a 4-% chance of thunderstorms. Wind will be 5 – 10 mph from the North.

What’s Hatching:
Sulphur – #16 – 20 – E. dorothea
Slate Drake – 12-2xl – 12 – Isonychia bicolor
Dark Blue Wing Olive – #18 – 20 – deficiens, lata
Pale Evening Dun – #14 – Epeorus vitreus
Tiny Blue Wing Olive – #22 – 26 – Pseudocleon sp.
Light Cahill – #14 – E. invaria, rotunda, Stenocron spp.
Olive Caddis – #16 – 18 – Ryacophilia sp.
Tan Caddis – #16 – 18 – Hydropsyche sp.
Dark Blue Wing Olive – #16 – 18 – Baetis spp.

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