Delaware River Report: October 6, 2023

We will be closed Saturday October 7 to attend Bob Lewis’s memorial service. We will reopen Sunday morning at 8 am.

Bob Lewis’s memorial information:
Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 66 Oxford Rd., New Hartford. https://www.eannacefuneralhome.com/obituaries/Robert-Lewis-112/#!/Obituary

We’re back to some cloud cover and rain. That’s great news for the hatches after a few days of heat and bright sun. The next few days definitely look like blue wing olive days. We should see some better / earlier flushes of Heptagenia and Isonychias too. The caddis have been on the bushes. Occasionally people are seeing some on the water so keep an eye out for slashy rises in the riffles. Nymphs and wet flies should fish better with the cloud cover too.

Today will be 70 degrees, cloudy, with a chance of showers. Today’s rainfall should be less than 1/10″. Wind will be 5 – 10 mph from the South.

What’s Hatching:
Olive Sulphur – # 18 – 20 – Heptagenia hebe
Slate Drake – # 12 – 14 – Isonychia bicolor
Dark Blue Wing Olive – #18 – 20 – deficiens, lata
Tiny Blue Wing Olive – #22 – 26 – Pseudocleon sp.
Olive Caddis – #16 – 18 – Ryacophilia sp.
Tan Caddis – #16 – 18 – Hydropsyche sp.
Dark Blue Wing Olive – #16 – 18 – Baetis spp.

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