The first adult spring chinook passed through the dam at Opal Springs into the Crooked River on May 28. The good news is that Prineville Reservoir is still 98% full and the river below Bowman Dam is at 245 cfs. The low flow in the river just below the City of Prineville is at 47 cfs as I write this. So, there’s adequate water in the river for the chinook. There have also been “schools of smolts” making their way down through Opal Springs dam as they out migrate. This is a much better picture than the recent past when sections of the river had lethally low flows when the chinook were trying to make their way upstream.