Delaware River Report: September 19, 2023

Chris Calabrese is being honored by the Catskill Fly Fishing Center for his conservation efforts as co-founder of Get Trashed in the Catskills. Come support Chris at the Emerging Anglers Dinner Saturday September 23, 2023 at the Beaverkill Valley Inn. https://cffcm.com/eventscalendar/2023/9/23/emerging-anglers-dinner To learn more about the Get Trashed River Clean Up Click Here

Chris Calabrese

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

Today looks like another good day to be on the water despite the wind. The cloud cover has been a nice change of pace. People are fishing streamers early and late with some nymphing during the day. The dry fly fishing has picked up since the cooler weather settled in. Small olives, Isonychias, and some Heptagenias should be around depending on what river section you fish. Mostly small olives.

Today will be 66 degrees with cloudy skies cleaing to partly cloudy skies. Wind will be 10 – 15 mph from the North.

John Loughlin releasing a fish yesterday

What’s Hatching:
Sulphur – # 20 – E. dorothea
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.

View the current local weather conditions.

Click on any gauge for the most recent data:
West Branch at Stilesville, NY432 cfs51°
West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY732 cfs53°
East Branch at Harvard, NY341 cfs48°
East Branch at Fishs Eddy, NY928 cfs54°
Mainstem at Lordville, NY2,110 cfs57°
Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY413 cfs57°
West Branch at 191 Bridge56°
West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow)86 cfs58°
Cannonsville Reservoir Release475 cfs
Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity83.1%
Pepacton Reservoir Capacity91%
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