The Crooked River continues to be a shining star, and as expected those spring time BWO’s are hatching better and better.
Drew was out there 2 days ago and had some amazing fishing on small soft hackles and #18 BWO dries.
Nymphing with BWO nymphs (skinny nelson is my favorite, and the Mercer’s Micro Mayfly is a great one too), small perdigons, Flashback PT, scuds and Zebra Midges.
Water levels are low running 53 cfs, with 364 cfs coming in to the reservoir this morning. The reservoir is just 22% full. That sucks. But maybe it’ll hit 50%. From what I can tell is, there is a lot of snow up there in the Ochoccos to melt. How much? Time will tell, but I do wish we’d see a bigger fill than what we are getting.
We will take the good fishing as we get it, and I expect it to be a great spring and summer on the Crooked with some low water coming in the Fall again.