East Branch

Water Quality: [Low slightly tinted. Lots of long algae and dead leaves. Much wood with low conditions for snags]
Weather: [47 degrees Cloudy overcast. 0-5 ml. wind]
Water Temp: [About 45]
Fishing Activity: [Have not kept up with starting entries. Last week on Thursday through the rain, fished the lower Section from Rt 84 Downward to Rt 6. No Activity. Switched to the upper section for the last two hours before dark. Took a 19" rainbow with a nice hook jaw developing and a second rainbow about 13". This was moments after DEC had left the stream, after checking some equipment. They may have stirred up the bottom a bit and generate some feeding fish. The activity seems to shut down a 1/2 hour before sunset. Returned on Friday and landed a 17" female, very healthy with roe.]
Methods: [The stirred up fish were on scuds. Just seemed the thing to try, after the workers pulled out. The female rainbow was on a Black Headlamp wire rib midge. Black cased caddis and olive hard case wire body nymphs, small size 22.There are no real bug hatches per say. Almost anything is worth a try. Today used some green copper johns, scuds, cased caddis, olive HE, BWO emergers. No takers. ]
General Consensus: [In the last month the water level has gone from 80 DCF to 130 then down to 35 and up to 46 and now back to 35. Seems they are dumping water from Sodom, to later be able to hold water water back, while going though different phases on the work at Diverting. Even when the sun was out for the later part till dusk, no bugs on the water. It almost that time for the lonely macro midges. Another fisherman reported taking a few fish on larva. this fall season I've been holding out to see how long small nymphs a pupa's would hold the fish interest. There seems to be small windows throughout the day, that the fish turn on and success depends more on having a fly in the water at these opportune times. ]
Insects Observed: [With a spot of sun for about 1-1/2 hour some caddis popped off, maybe grey. Have not seen any of the black caddis reported the last week of October. Some black midges have made an appearance but scarce. Some real small BWO. Have not found any action on nymphs, similar in color and size]