Crooked River

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Crooked River Blw Osborne Canyon, Nr Opal City, OR, 22 mi from the river.

132cfsat build, Nov 12, 9 AM MT

The typical week here, from 10 years of record: 159 cfs to 204 cfs, around 194 cfs.

Snowpack

0.1 in of water in the snow at Ochoco Meadows, against a median 0.0 in for the date.

The snowpack here usually builds from Nov 20, peaks Mar 8 and is gone by Apr 21; runoff follows the melt.

The season, November

Usually workable this week. Pick your window and fish it well.

• Midgessizes 18 to 22
• Small eggs and worms
• Pheasant tail and zebra midge nymphsunder an indicator

Typical for the week over 10 years: 159 to 204 cfs. Running 132 cfs today, inside that range. Flows are not forecast; check the gauge the day before.

Brown Trout are spawning (October to December). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.

Brook Trout are spawning (September to November). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.

Mountain Whitefish are spawning (October to December). The egg bite behind spawning whitefish is the best winter nymphing of the year: an egg pattern below the riffles.

• Egg patterns in the runs below the spawning gravel, never on it.

Written by the app's rules engine from the calendar, the gauge record and the snowpack, not by hand, so it says only what the data says. The weather for the week comes with the app.

Fly shops on this water

• Confluence Fly Shop BendWebsiteFishing report, updated Mar 17
• Fly & Field Outfitters BendWebsiteFishing report, updated Nov 8
• The Fly Fisher's Place SistersWebsiteFishing report, updated Nov 11
• The Patient Angler BendWebsiteFishing report

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