http://thereellife.com/ Fishing Reports Feeds From Thereellife.com en-us Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:19:29 GMT http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports/rss UCMS info@reellifesantafe.com info@reellifesantafe.com http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  40 ° F Fishing: Good

I'm just going to say good, because I'm so jonesing to fish that being anywhere would beat being in front of a computer screen.  But pike are being seen here and there, and fish are being taken at the Red confluence, and I'm sure there are players in the Pueblo as well.  Try the run downstream of the water pipe, worms and a prince, and I bet you'll come up with a trout or two. 



]]> 2010-02-02 00:00:00 354 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  39 ° F Fishing: Good

Hunch only.  See the Pecos report; all you need is ganas, and maybe you'll get a  fish or two.



]]> 2010-02-02 00:00:00 353 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  41 ° F Fishing: Fair

Heard a story the other day, a second hand tale from a GandF biologist who had studied the river below Abiquiu pretty extensively.  Apparently there are cutbanks that reach more than ten feet under land.  They hold very huge trout sometimes, fish over 30 that when radiocollared have been documented to wander down to the Chama's confluence with the Rio, that when stomach sampled are known to have a predilection for rodents, mice and baby beavers.
Thought you'd want to know what that thing is chomping on your leg when you wade in too deep. 
Also heard some whining about crowds at the Q.  Nothing to do about that but deal; many act like the Chama's some big secret, but there are many old timers who knew that to be false even when New Mexico was still considered to be another country.  And there are more fly anglers, the NM population has doubled since my childhood.  So yeah, I guess we'll have to deal.
Fish big and baity (worms and eggs) or small and buggy, or both.  I'd use the same approach at Coops.



]]> 2010-02-02 00:00:00 352 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  41 ° F Fishing: Excellent

We've had several recent reports of fishing being markedly better on smaller sized hooks, 30s and 8X.  Not for me, wearing fish out or breaking them off, but I'm sure the real experts are having a ball and taking care of their fish to boot.  Black beauties are still a consistent producer, annelids, tiny PTs in the pm, an worms and eggs.



]]> 2010-02-02 00:00:00 351 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  40 ° F Fishing: Good

That's a qualified good, as in, if you have an afternoon on your hands and want to spend it outdoors in a pretty and snowy mountain setting without boards strapped to your feet, you can go to the Pecos and actually have a chance at catching a few fish.  Our friend Buck has been keeping regular hours on the river and to great avail.  Rainbows AND browns are taking his red San Juan worm and green caddis rockworm just often enough to keep him smiling, though could that be the thermos of toddies talking (kidding Buck)?



]]> 2010-02-02 00:00:00 350 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  33 ° F Fishing: Fair

Below Q or El Vado, who's to say you won't light it up.  But I'm to say it probably won't happen.  Wonderful fishing weather though, lots of solitude.  I'd have an orange worm on the line, and/or an egg pattern.  Flashy PT, renegade, green rockworm, something that will wake a fish up. 



]]> 2010-01-28 00:00:00 347 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  32 ° F Fishing: Fair

It'll get you out, but the fishing might not be too hot.  Fun just to hunt pike at Pilar, John Dunn, or Velarde.  Fish the Rio at the Red confluence and you're likely to pick up some cuttbows.  Green caddis larvae.



]]> 2010-01-28 00:00:00 346 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  32 ° F Fishing: Poor

I'm putting in a Pecos report only because fish are being caught there.  Run a nymph rig along the ice shelves.  Beats watching soaps, though napping and tying bugs seems preferable to going out in this stuff.  Bait patterns, worms, eggs.



]]> 2010-01-28 00:00:00 345 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  34 ° F Fishing: Excellent

If you dare, I'm sure you can find rafts of midge adults and pick off gulpers with midge clusters, chickens, and triple threats.  Otherwise, black beauties and annelids are getting the bottom feeders.  Having an egg on all the time doesn't hurt either.  Try a leach or matuka with a bullet sinker on it.  Jig it along.



]]> 2010-01-28 00:00:00 344 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  34 ° F Fishing: Poor

Pike are often seen but not heard, but it's worth a shot anyway.  Look to go out when the temps rise; maybe a pike or trout will want to play.  Same deal on the Red, though it is probably more forgiving these days.  Green caddis larvae, eggs, pheasant tails.



]]> 2010-01-12 00:00:00 332 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  39 ° F Fishing: Excellent

Hear that busy signal?  It's because the San Juan is off the hook (har, har).  Seriously, have red hot will travel, and I like foam winged emergers as well.  And here's something: if a fish comes up to look at your indicator (they will if it's black) then that fish is a player that will probably roll on a big attractor dry.  Who knows what tactics will work?  I've been pinching a 3/0 split shot on the head of a black leach, throwing it out, and REELING it in with some sweet results.  Jesse has been killing them on a triple threat, a size 14 midgey looking dry that honestly looks like a purple ant.  Throw the rule book out the window (but always have your annelids handy).



]]> 2010-01-12 00:00:00 331 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  37 ° F Fishing: Good

Relatively speaking, fishing isn't bad below Abiquiu, with some surface feeding going on and the standard small nymph, egg pattern, and worm thing working now and again.  Great to be outside, eh?  That's what it's about.
No recent reports from Coops, so I think I'm going to go up next week and get me one.  Stay tuned.




]]> 2010-01-12 00:00:00 330 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  36 ° F Fishing: Fair

Below Abiquiu is a nice afternoon's fishing.  Going big (chupacabra stonefly) and small (midges in all colors) and bait (yellow eggs, red and orange worms) will yield some fish, though probably not many.
Coops will still fish for spawning holdovers.  They're probably wiped out, but they may be hanging out trying to get the weight back on.



]]> 2009-12-16 00:00:00 322 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  25 ° F Fishing: Fair

Pike are showing up; hooking them, however, is the issue.  Look for midge spotting in the PM and trout.  The Red confluence with midge pupae and cranes and egg patterns will produce on a good weather day or maybe on a foul weather day.  The Red itself is fishing OK on eggs by the hatchery and down by the mouth.  Winter is here.



]]> 2009-12-16 00:00:00 321 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  35 ° F Fishing: Excellent

Small (size 24-26) gray emergers and RS2s result in marked increase in hookups and straightened hooks from T-hole on up.  Midge dries in the afternoon are fun.  Black leeches when the shadows fall.



]]> 2009-12-16 00:00:00 320 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  41 ° F Fishing: Great

The El Vado bloodbath is probably over, the meat fishermen having taken and impressive and heartbreaking haul.  Add to that the general mayhem around the run of Abiquiu browns, and we might wonder if any fish, or eggs for that matter, will make it to adulthood.  Methinks, however, that there were all sorts of fish buttering bread up and down the river.  Expect more peaceful fishing with nymphs, baetis, midges, or throw worm patterns to the holdovers who will be refueling before heading back down to Abiquiu.  I tried below the Monastery and got my butt whooped by water I think might have been barren.  Went below Abiquiu and found a good number of takers.



]]> 2009-12-02 00:00:00 314 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  46 ° F Fishing: Excellent

The fall baetis hatch is finally petering out, but it's predictable enough to make a wonderful afternoon if you're anywhere from the cable down to the sewing machine.  Killer mays in black and dark olive, tiny PTs, comparaduns, and gray RS2s.  Otherwise, throw the red larva in the mix and a black midge emerger, a simple black beauty or my new favorite, a tiny bowtie buzzer tied by my buddy John Chumbly.



]]> 2009-12-02 00:00:00 313 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  37 ° F Fishing: Great

Based on all recent reports, the Rio at the Red confluence, and the Red itself, are still providing some good fishing on small nymphs such as PTs, micromays, purple princes and the like.  Bring a partner though; you wouldn't want to spend the night out there with a twisted ankle and icicles dangling from your nose.



]]> 2009-12-02 00:00:00 312 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  38 ° F Fishing: Poor

Imagine being cold blooded in a cold river.  Imagine having a choice between being there and not being there, and choosing to not be there.  This would be a good choice, unless you just want to get out and throw the line.  You could do worse.



]]> 2009-12-02 00:00:00 311 http://thereellife.com/fishing-reports Recorded:  59 ° F Fishing: Fair

No recent reports on the Pecos, though if this warmish weather holds, you should be able to pick up a few on small nymphs.  I'd actually run them beneath a hopper; if the hoppers aren't all dead yet, there will probably be some drowned ones in the flow.  Certainly the prey image isn't dead yet in the minds of the Pecos trout.



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