Gunpowder Stream Report and Great Feathers Fly Shop Blog

As of this morning, the flows are 68cfs at Masemore with a water temp of 62 degrees and 135cfs at Glencoe with a temp of 66 degrees. Water clarity is great and the conditions are the best they have been in a while.

The river is alive with bugs and the fish have been very cooperative. Tremendous hatches have been seen in the morning and in the evenings. Sulphurs have been prolific! One evening last week, fisherman were witness to a great sulphur hatch combined with a spinner fall. This is a spectacle that is hard to forget. Spinners started descending at about 7:00pm complete with orange egg sacs and the emerging bugs passed them on the way out. Also, green caddis have been numerous throughout.

Dry fly activity has not been great, but sulphur parachutes and green elk hair caddis have worked. In the spinner fall/dun hatch, soft hackles were the best. They look like either an emerger or a drowned spinner. Most of the takes are just below the surface. During the "Blue Bird" middle of the past few days, nymphing with pheasant tails and hares has been the most productive. The high pressure keeps the fish down during the middle of the day and the mornings and evenings have been the best.