Fishing has really heated up this past week! Hendricksons continue to make their presence known, along with the early hatches of Blue Quills and Quill Gordons. All week long there were reports of good catches amidst prolific hatches. The fish are fat and feisty and are taking dry flies - and with air temperatures reaching the 60s and 70-degree mark, what more could a trout fisher ask for? Both the Willowemoc and Beaverkill have been producing good numbers of trout during the past week, mainly in the afternoons.
Beaverkill Stream Conditions Report - April 14, 2024
Our rivers and streams had been in very fishable shape last week, with the early hatches of Quill Gordons and Blue Quills noted. Fishing below the surface with wet flies and nymphs has been productive, even when no hatches are detected. And Tuesday’s water temperatures reached that “magic” number of 50 degrees Fahrenheit - the temperature fly fishers watch for - that marks the beginning of the fly hatches we look forward to.
However, with Friday’s downpours and storms, water levels rose to a non-wadeable level of almost 6000 cubic feet per second. The unsettled weather over the weekend has kept many trout fishers indoors, waiting for more good weather.
Beaverkill Stream Conditions Report - April 7, 2024
Despite the return of winter this past week, with snow, sleet, rain, gusty winds and even an earthquake (!) trout fishers were out in good numbers and all were enthusiastic to open the season.
By Wednesday afternoon area rivers and streams were high and discolored. The Beaverkill had risen to slightly above the average flow but by Monday morning had receded somewhat to 985 cubic feet per second, below the Median average flow on this date of 1190 cubic feet per second over 110 years of record-keeping. It looks like a slightly warmer but rainy week ahead for the most part, typical of the traditional “April showers” we are used to.