Fishing Reports

Smallie nation!  Great topwater fun on stiff 5 weights or 6 weights. 

Abiquiu is super hot for smallies on topwater flies, Todd's Wiggle Minnow being the favorite.  Word on the street is that there was a heavy bikini hatch out yesterday; look for more of that as this hot weather settles in.  And as long as the fish are hitting at the surface (they should in this heat), why go deep.  Maybe use a five or six weight for a little more fun, if you can stand the arduous casting.
The trout lakes should show fish moving offshore a bit and perhaps wandering in when the shadows fall.  Apparently there was lots of butchery during the sucker spawn at Eagle Nest.
No word from Stone.
No word for Cruz, though snoop for nosing fish in the evenings.

Santa Cruz and Eagle Nest will continue to fish well from a boat, less so from shore thanks to tornado winds.  Look for big carp in the shallows at the south end of Eagle Nest.

If you can stand the winds, get your belly boat in the water and ride the waves.  Fish in Santa Cruz are a little silly for midge and mayfly emergers hung tight in the wind currents.  Slow slow stripping.  A sink tip with the same setup, with a bugger or damsel attractor, will nail some as well.  Nice fat browns.
No word on Stone, but stay tuned for the wind report.
I'm going to try the south end of Eagle Nest next week, wind or no.  I'm actually hoping for some breeze, so my leeches can have a nice relaxing swim before getting punished by the big rainbows that I'm sure will be collecting down there.

Santa Cruz from a boat is really fishing well right now, though if you walk the shoreline, you will likely run into concentrations of hatching and floating midges.  The fish are thick in these spots, so fish a griffith's and a small red copper john behind an indicator in the wind lines and get ready for some fun.  Pete Romero is working the dam a lot and the inlet with great success. Ed Miller has been catching browns using single and double streamer rigs. Be early if you can as the weekend and after work crew is starting to show up in increasing numbers.

Abiquiu is still a few weeks from prime time. Ed Miller float tubed there the other day and caught one smallmouth and one walleye on streamers.

Santa Cruz is worth a try, either from shore or a belly boat.  Full sink lines work the best, and something big and frisky on the end of the line, a rubber legs, bugger, leach or jig.  Try a smaller bright nymph too.  A little prerunoff has stained the water a tad.