Catches of the week
Bryan Zuanetti, of Santa Fe, caught a 29.5-inch, 8-pound walleye at Abiquiú Lake using a jig and plastic minnow April 3.
Walter Sarracino, of Grants, caught a 24-inch rainbow trout at Bluewater Lake using hot pink PowerBait on April 2.
Michael Proctor, of Carlsbad, caught and released a 15-inch crappie at Brantley Lake using a yellow and green crankbait April 2.
Tina McClendis, of Alamogordo, caught a 16-inch largemouth bass at Caballo Lake using a minnow April 2.
Diego Baca and
Bryan Novotny, of Rio Rancho, caught and released several largemouth bass ranging in size from 14.5-inches to 19-inches at Conchas Lake using medium diving crankbaits April 2.
Weekly Fishing Report: April 6, 2021
Los Alamos Daily Post
The temperatures are rising. In Southern New Mexico, the temperatures are now reading consistently in the 80-degree range. Here in Northern New Mexico temperatures are climbing into the 70’s and spring runoff has begun. It will be several weeks before it peaks.
For two out of the last three years streamflows and water temperatures during the summer have reached dangerous levels for the survival of trout in New Mexico. Low streamflows and high water temperatures can prove fatal to trout, which are adapted to cold water. Once the water temperatures reach 70-degrees, trout become lethargic. Above that they start to die and at 80 degrees they are nearly all dead. Wild trout populations suffer the most during these conditions. Unfortunately, it is the larger trout that start dying first and suffer the most.
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Weekly Fishing Report: March 11, 2021
Los Alamos Daily Post
With the official beginning of spring (Saturday March 20) less than two weeks away, the weather is certainly indicating a changing of the seasons.
Temperatures have been climbing into the 60’s and 70’sand some mornings the low temperatures have been above freezing.
Much of New Mexico is locked into an exceptional drought and this winter has not delivered what was needed to pull us out of it. Snowpacks remain below normal and the weather pattern is typical of a La Nina winter with the strongest storms passing to the north of New Mexico.
Catches of the week
Mark Haber, of Española, caught a 20-inch walleye trolling at Abiquiú Lake a crankbait March 7.
Edward Marraccini, of Albuquerque, caught and released a 21-inch brown trout on the Chama River, below El Vado Lake, using a Black Bunny on Leech on March 7.
Justin Journal, of Rio Rancho, caught a 7.32-pound largemouth bass at Elephant Butte Lake using a Red Square Bill Crankbait.
Michael Cisco Medford, 7, of Las Cruces, caught an 8-pound blue catfish trolling a deep-diving white/chartreuse crankbait March 7.
Cole Rogers and
Parker McMillian, both of Silver City, caught 18 white bass trolling shad colored crankbaits March 6.