New Mexico Fly Fishing Blog

Weeds, Grass, and Other Vegetation For years, anglers have been plagued with all types of vegetation growth in lakes, rivers, reservoirs, and off-shore. But, realizing the benefits of plant habitat for fish, anglers have adapted fishing styles and techniques to work...

Bass in the Timber Timber, in any given lake, provides habitat for all species of fish. Anglers commonly refer to timber as cover, and they know it provides a sheltered area for bass hang outs. But, the age old quandary for bassers is which trees will be more...

Structure and Cover - What's The Difference? Structure, in relation to a lake, is any bottom contour change. Cover is any object that is in the lake, natural or man made. On any given lake, fish relate to the available structure, just as humans and animals relate to...

Bass Fishing - It Can't Get Any Better Than This! Springtime abounds with nature fulfilling it's clockwork course of destination. A magnificent wake up call to the plant and animal kingdom to start their yearly ritual of mating, multiplying, and growing. This...

POST SPAWN BLUES - What to do! Post spawn generally causes anglers to question their ability in locating and catching bass. Many anglers are presently facing the inevitable question: Where are the bass hiding? Rest assured the bass are there, close to their spawning...

Points . . . A Great Hangout for Bass Points are one of the most common types of structure found in a lake. Structure is defined as any contour change in the lakes bottom, and that includes points. There are many different types of points, depending on the particular...

Crankbaits - Crank and Wind for Bass! Crankbaits are great fish finders, and are productive twelve months of the year. Baitfish can be imitated through various styles, colors, and patterns of crankbait lures. Some are large, fat, and big billed and have a big wobble...

Confidence = Success for Bass Fishing! Successful anglers most often possess a quality of self confidence in their abilities to locate, tempt, and catch bass. As with all things in life, the more one knows about what they are doing, the more adept they become at that...

Bass Sense Many anglers have fished for years, not understanding the physical and mental make-up of a bass's system. To increase productivity in anything, one must first do some homework on what makes anything "tick". And, that includes the bass. A bass's senses...

Bass Fishing Tournament Strategies Of all different aspects of tournament fishing, without a doubt the least understood by the average angler is the matter of prefishing. Even the word "prefishing" itself is awfully ambiguous. Just mention that word to someone who...

Oso Blanco Lodge Falcon Lake For the past two years I’ve been hearing about all the big fish being caught at Falcon. Not that any fisherman has every been known to misstate a fact but the tales of so many 20 pound plus 5 fish catches were a bit hard for me to believe...

Pre-Spawn Patterns for Toledo Bend The fish are on the move; however, the lake dropped over a foot in a one week period and on Friday, they received over 9" of rain which had the bass pulled back out of the buck brush and they were relating more to mainlake points,...

Pre Spawn Patterns for Sam Rayburn For the past month, Big Sam has been as temperamental as most all our East Texas lakes have been, especially in giving up numbers of bass. The high winds, rain and weekend cold fronts have kept the bass hanging out, and as of yet,...

The Gift of Conservation The holiday season is a good time for reflection. A time to be grateful for all that we have. A time to give just for the good feeling we get from giving. One of the most important things that we all can be thankful for, after good health and...

The Gift of A Lifetime Some 40 odd years ago a grey haired man stood on a bridge with a young boy looking at a bobber floating below in the Arkansas River in Wichita, Kansas. As the old man leaned over the railing to look at some ducks that were swimming by under the...

Houston Boat Show Visit our booth at the Houston Boat Show January 7th – 16th at the Reliant Center, Houston Texas. Red Wing Boat Company 836 South 75th Street Houston, Texas 77023 713-921-0656

Rinker's Boat World Visit our booth at the Houston Boat Show January 7th – 16th at the Reliant Center, Houston Texas. Rinker’s Boat World 2500 W Mt Houston Houston, Texas 77038 800-847-9247 281-847-0064

Texas State Parks Plan Host of Holiday Festivities AUSTIN, Texas — The limestone walls of the Indian Council Room deep within the bowels of historic Longhorn Cavern near Burnet will ring with the sounds of the holiday season at three special Caroling in the Cave...

Rainbow Trout To Star in Texas State Parks’ Family Fishing Celebration AUSTIN, Texas — You won’t need a fishing license this winter to try your luck at hooking one of the thousands of rainbow trout being stocked in lakes and rivers at more than a dozen Texas state...

Whooping Crane Population Reaches Record High ROCKPORT, Texas — This winter, the world’s last natural wild population of whooping cranes pushed past the 200 mark, a landmark event for an endangered bird species that has come back from the brink of extinction in the...

Wardens Made Much Progress on the Border Last Month ZAPATA, Texas — At and around the Falcon Lake area on the Mexican border, game wardens had a busy November. “Efforts of game wardens in conjunction with other law enforcement agencies have been very successful in the...