The Crooked River is still on the list as one of the best in the region for the time being. PMD’s are not quite over and BWO’s are gaining ground. I would take a BDE Dun and confidently fish it as a fly that could match both mayflies. I also like a Purple Comparadun in this situation on any of our rivers.
Nymphing is really good, mostly with small Brown nymphs like a Jig Napoleon or Micro May. I also like a Skinny Nelson, 2 Bit Hooker, Scuds, Zebra Midges and Psycho Prince. Water is coming down as irrigation ends. It is at low winter flow running at 89 cfs today. One thing in flows that are low is nymph with a single nymph for less weed snagging, and also in places the use of a NZ Wool Indicator or XS Oros to suspend the nymph out of most of the weeds is helpful. It’s not all about the Euro Rig in those weed channels. Also, thanks to Mat for your excellent report and sharing that you did well on a Ray Charles and PCP Nymph. That PCP is a pattern my good friend Bruce came up with for the Lower D, but it is basically a Peacock bodied Walt’s Worm and it works everywhere.