New Mexico Fly Fishing Blog
San Juan River New Mexico Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Water flow below Navajo Lake as of Monday morning was 499cfs. Trout fishing through the Quality Waters was fair-to-good using wooly buggers, San Juan worms, leeches, egg patterns, parachute adams, dead chickens and small hair jigs. Fishing through the bait waters was good using salmon eggs, power bait, worms, jigs and jerk baits.
Bill Evans Lake New Mexico Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Trout fishing was fair-to-good using spoons, salmon eggs and power bait. A few largemouth bass were taken by anglers using jigs and spinner baits.
Caballo Lake New Mexico Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Fishing continued to be slow for all species. The water was quite murky.
Elephant Butte New Mexico Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Fishing was slow-to-fair using crank baits, spoons and minnows for white bass and a few walleye. Fishing was fair using senkos, jigs, worms and chigger craws for black bass. Most of the bass were in less than 10 feet of water. Fishing for all other species was slow.
Gila River Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Water flow on the Gila as of this past Monday was 105cfs. We had no reports from anglers.
Glenwood Pond New Mexico Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
We had no reports from anglers this week.
Lake Roberts Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Trout fishing was fair-to-good using salmon eggs, power bait and garlic cheese
Quemado Lake Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Fishing was slow-to-fair using power bait and spinners for trout. We had no reports on tiger musky.
Rio Grande Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Water flow below Elephant Butte on Monday was 1,230cfs. Fishing below Elephant Butte was fair-to-good using worms and spinners for trout. A few walleye were taken by anglers using grubs and sassy shad We had no reports on other species. Fishing below Caballo was slow.
Bosque Redondo Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Trout fishing was fair using salmon eggs, spinners and power bait.
Brantley Lake Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Anglers are to practice catch and release for all fish here as high levels of DDT were found in several fish.
Pecos River New Mexico Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Water flow on Monday below Sumner Lake was 96cfs. Trout fishing was slow-to-fair using power bait, worms and salmon eggs.
Sumner Lake Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Fishing was fair using minnows, jigs and spoons for walleye. Anglers fishing for walleye reported catching a few bass and crappie.
Charette Lake Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
We had no reports from anglers this week.
Lake Maloya Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Bank fishing for trout at Lake Maloya was very good using rainbow and pink power baits for 12-to-14 inch fish. Lake Alice was closed due to thin ice. For updated conditions call the state park office at 575-445-5607.
Maxwell Lake Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
The lake opened to fishing on March 1 but we had no reports from anglers.
Monastery Lake Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Trout fishing was fair-to-good using salmon peach and garlic power baits, salmon eggs and spinners.
Stubblefield Lake Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
We had no reports from anglers this week.
Rio Chama New Mexico Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Monday morning water flows below El Vado and Abiquiu were 49cfs and 316cfs respectively. Trout fishing was slow.
Manzano Lake New Mexico Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
Trout fishing was slow-to-fair using power bait just off the bottom.
McGaffey Lake Fly Fishing Report 03/03/2009
We had no reports from anglers this week.