Crooked River is running at 200 cfs as they attempt to conserve some water in the reservoir

Crooked River - Prineville, OR

Photo Credit: Courtesy of The Fly Fishers Place

by The Fly Fishers Place
7-31-2021
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Crooked River is running at 200 cfs as they attempt to conserve some water in the reservoir. For now that is good. And the fishing is good. PMD hatches mixes with some caddis, mahogany duns, hoppers, Purple Haze and rusty spinners for your dry fly games, and zebra midges, Split Case PMD, Rainbow Warrior, Perdigons, scuds, micro may’s, 2 bits and tiny PT’s for the nymphs.

Best fishing is from the dam down to MP 12.

This is a river to watch for very low flows over the winter and one we are concerned about by December if we don’t get some good fall and winter rains going.