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New York:       June 16th, 2015          6:30 am 

Stream                  Flow         Temp.           Condition    

Wappinger Creek        388 cfs         66.0 degrees      wade

Ten Mile River             644 cfs         66.0 degrees     Limited

Beaverkill                    1020 cfs        61.0 degrees     Limited

West Branch, Del.      1140 cfs        59.2 degrees     Limited

East Branch, Del.         670 cfs        57.2 degrees        wade  

"Harvard"

Delaware-                    3930 cfs       66.6  degrees    floatable 

 "Lordsville"

Neversink                     212 cfs         64.0 degrees        wade     

Connecticut:  

Housatonic

 "Gaylordville"               4090 cfs      Unavailable     To high

 "Falls Village"               2950 cfs      Unavailable     To high

Farmington River         1192 cfs       Unavailable     To high

Weather:  Check out Exact weather on "Links" page. Per Itellicast. 

Best Bet:  Neversink, has less tributaries, can handle rain.  Another choice East branch of the Croton 53 CFS.   

Bugs:   Brown, Green, & Tan Caddis, Olives small, Cornuta's  and Sulphers, Iso's, Vitreus, Lt. Cahill's and spinners of sorts. 

June 14th, 2015:  Worked the shop today, so the reports are this, "spotty"  fishing, no bugs, most hatches occur around 8:30 pm till dark, Mostly Cahill's, Iso's, Some sulpher's, caddis. Mornings, Olives, caddis and spinners.  Some concern over water temps.  Mainstem of the Delaware below Buckingham to warm to fish.  Beaverkill and Willow do reach 70-72 degrees, but are fishable do to the cool nights, by morning they can be upper 50's to 60-61 degrees. This week coming cool nights and daytime temps of mid 70's.  Flies going out of the shop, Cahill's, Iso's, Brown caddis and dark gray caddis, Prince nymphs and small pheasant tails. 

June 13th, 2015:  Had lessons for Michele and Brian two friends who gave fly-fishing a try.  Overall tough day to see any trout rising.  Michele and Brian learned streamers, nymphing and of course dry fly.  The Willowmoc received a good dumping of rain Friday night which made it off color and a bit high, which in turned effected the lower Beaverkill.  So we started at the Rt. 206 bridge on the upper Beaverkill and then drifted down to the lower Beaverkill by 2 PM.  Saw very few bugs, but at this time of the year is not uncommon.  But eventually I saw a steady rise and switch Michele from nymphing to dry fly.  The result was a nice 16 1/2 inch brown in the net.  The Brown took my Brown floating nymph #18, after we tried some caddis.  Michele held her ground and fought the fish with honor!  So we fished from 10 am till about 6 pm.

June 12th, 2015:  Spent the day in the shop, saw the regular Farmington guys from Connecticut, their report is that the Farmington has been fishing good of late, March browns, Gray Fox, Sulphers and Cahills plus Tan caddis.  Catskills on the other hand has been somewhat grueling during the day, Typical, But the last few hours of the day has been good, specially Cahill's the last half hour.  Early morning has fish rising to Small Olives and Caddis as I witnessed this morning on the Willowemoc.  Saturday I am guiding 3 clients full day, but my concern is the crowded weekend we will encounter.

June 8th, 2015:  Spent the afternoon on the Beaverkill today giving lessons to Chris and John.  Was the perfect day for BWO'S, but where were they?  We had fish rising as the two gents practice their presentations.  Although no trout in the net they had fish take their flies.  As that is the key in fly fishing.  Today was overcast with spots of rain, by 6 pm the rain fell harder and off in the distance some thunder.  So we fished from 1:30 pm till 6 pm. The bugs that the trout came to were a gray caddis, a beetle and a size #16 brown floating nymph.  Actual bugs on the water, some caddis, few Olives and some midges. 

June 7th, 2015:  My client today was Jean Choi, who was eager to give fly fishing a try.  We spent the morning on the Beaverkill from 9 am to 1 pm.  Jean did quite well for herself, landing a few browns and taught herself a valuable lesson of playing some really "nice" fish, don't point the rod at a run away beast!  The result is a missing fly and a sad face, a vocal reaction of "Oh No"!  My brown floating nymph #18 was successful in fooling these two wise old trout.  The other fish took the tan caddis pupa.  But in all Jean did real well and her enthusiasm showed.  Other bugs this morning that were on the water were BWO #18's and there were a few trout on them.  Cahill's are now making their appearance and anglers are purchasing them from the shop so fish are on them now. So the bugs that I would carry now for the summer would be Olives, Sulphers, Iso's, Cahills, plus Green caddis, Tan, Gray, and black. Maybe a few midges plus plenty of spinners.  Back guiding Monday reports to follow.  

June 6th, 2015:  Had client Nick cleary on the Beaverkill and East branch today.  Morning was good on the Beaverkill with Nick landing some nice fish on Caddis pupa, my brown floating nymph and a dropper soft hackle off of a brown Ausable wolf. The middle of the day was real slow so that meant some lunch.  Then we moved to the East branch as the Beaverkill was very crowded.  There were fish rising but that slow water on the East was tough on Nick, at the end we missed a few fish and landed one on a gray caddis. One nice feature about the East branch because of the high mountains we are in a valley with early shade so a lot of small browns were rising.  Photo below:

June 5th, 2015:  So todays report, Tough night last night on the Beaverkill as Anglers saw few good hatches, the most prominent was Caddis, some considered them black and some saw brown.  Most Anglers had few hook ups on caddis.  Now some Anglers may not realize that some dark caddis that emerge is really not black or gray, one must capture a caddis to verify this, some dark caddis that emerge really have a green body when emergence occurs, it darkens over the course of a day. So when these caddis return at night with eggs then you can assume they are dark gray to black.  So when fishing caddis capture one, see if they are emerging or coming back to lay eggs.  This will help in more hook ups. 

 Photo below:  June 6th, Nick Cleary best Beaverkill brown that took my brown floating nymph.

Photo below: May 23rd, 2015, My client Allison with her best fish of the day, a nifty Rainbow that took a March brown emerger.

 Photo above: May 16th, 2015, Good friend Charlie Fiske with one of many Browns he caught on the Beaverkill.

Photo below:  May 16th, 2015, Myself with a nice Beaverkill Rainbow caught on a tan caddis emerger. 

 Photo below:  Bob Ciabocchi with a measured 18 inch Beaverkill brown that took my Hendrickson emerger. 5/11/15

 Photo above: 5/5/15, My high school buddie John, also a guide in Colorado "Riffle and Rise outfitters" with a late afternoon West branch Brown, took a blue quill emerger.

Photo below" 5/4/15, Good friend Vinny with a Stockport brown just before dark. Took a Hendrickson emerger.

Photo below:  Taylor Inman with his first Beaverkill Rainbow, a measured 18 inch male bow.  took a Hendrickson emerger.  

 Photo above:  April 30th, 2015:  Jim Wendel with his first Beaverkill trout!

Photo below:  Good friends  Robbie and Jim sharing a moment with Jim's last fish of the day.  All trout took the Golden stone while nymphing.

 Photo above:  April 27th, 2015 first trout on a Hendrickson, #14 pink comparadun emerger.

Photo below:  Nice 2 year old brown, took the Red quill emerger on the swing.  Fished like a wet fly.

 Photo below:  April 27th, 2015 A Wappinger creek Rainbow, took a Hendrickson pink stillborn pattern.

 Photo Below:  April 25th, 2015:  Ryan Quinn first 2015 brown trout, took a size #10 Golden stonefly, on the Beaverkill.

 Photo below:  April 24th 2015, Angie Jirik bought her husband a birthday present!  Lessons on the Beaverkill with a nifty snow Squall.  I think I heard her mumble about her birthday and a ocean beach in July!

Photo above: A nice Beaverkill Brown who took a #14 Olive Parachute. 10/21/14

Photo Below:  This Rainbow took the yellow Sallie pattern of mine, Note the mouth. 10/21/14

 Photo Below: My Daughter Stephanie with her first Beaverkill Rainbow!  Took a #20 BWO Parachute. 10/12/14

Photo below: A Bald Eagle guarding one of my honey holes! 10/9/14

 Photo below: This Brown couldn't refuse my Autumn Streamer! 10/7/14

 Photo below:  As the Leaves fall, the fishing picks up! 10/7/14.

  September 14th, 2014:  Good friend Vinny with his son Jack, Jack's biggest brown to date.  Took a caddis cripple on the Willowemoc.

Photo courtesy of Jim Corless.

Photo below:  Andrea's first Beaverkill brown on a fly rod!  Took a Iso parachute. September 9th, 2014

Flies for June:

Dry:

Olives

Needhami:   

Midges:

Tan caddis

Dark blue sedge

Olive caddis

Green sedge

Invaria

Sulphers

Green drakes

brown drakes

Golden drake

Yellow drake

Cahills

Iso's

Vitreus

Gray fox

Nymphs:

Prince Nymphs: #12 -14

Zug Bug: #12-10

Copper Johns:

Brassies:

B.H. Pheasant Tails: #12-18

Pheasant Tails: #12-18

Cased Caddis: #12 - 8

B.H. Caddis pupa: Olive/Green/brown #10-16

Caddis Larva: Olive/Green/Cream: #10-16

Hares Ear: #10-18

Stoneflies: #6-12, Golden, Black, Brown

Winter Stoneflies, brown & black  #14-16

 "Hot Nymph":

Prince Nymph or Art Flicks Iso Nymph" 6/15/15