Per Mike Sloane (NMDG&F Chief of Fisheries), work has begun on the two back channels downstream of the Texa-hole. The effort includes cleaning out the organic sediments, creating some pools, shaping the channel and building some rock and tree structures. The plan is to create more habitat and improve sediment transport. Along with this project a waterfowl/wetland area will be built between the Texas-hole and the Munoz parking lot ... Read More
May 14, 2013
Ron Loehman Conservation Chairman Plan to join other NM Trout Volunteers on June 1st to build structures that will help the Rio Cebolla recover from the effects of unauthorized vehicles along its banks. The location is about 4 miles north of Porter's Landing where FR 376 crosses the Cebolla, across the valley from where we installed the interpretive panels last year. We will be working to close off an informal road along the creek that was decommissioned in the recent Forest Service travel management plan. This is an action that NM Trout has been advocating for over a decade and ... Read More
May 14, 2013
Fly and Notes by Hans van Klinken, photo by Hans Weilenmann Used by permission Hook: Partridge H1A size 8-10-12 Thread: Uni-thread, brown or tan Head: None toxic lead shot or substitute (see tying notes) Tag: Small strip of green fluorescent Flexibody (4 turns) Tail/legs: Speckled tail or long back feather from a partridge wound as collar Body: Rabbit fur dubbed and well picked out Leadhead - A bug for the deep I first tied my own weighted nymphs during the winter after I had been introduced to the Kvennan Special. I was using layers of leadwire to weight them ... Read More
April 16, 2013
by Francis Peter, NMT Youth Program Chair Imagine a magical place! You wake up in the morning to the fresh coolness of a high mountain forest. You step out onto the porch and your eyes wander over a large lush valley filled with early morning fog. As the fog lifts, countless grazing Elk appear to your view. Across the valley, a small stream teaming with willing trout beckons. As the day passes, you enjoy interacting with your comrades and you pass tidbits of knowledge on to eager students of fly fishing. The evening brings a cookout dinner followed by congenial ... Read More
April 16, 2013
Rio Guadalupe Cleanup - Saturday, April 20, 2013 New Mexico Trout has a tradition of welcoming the Spring opening of FR 376 between the Gilman Tunnels and Porter's Landing with a volunteer trash pickup. That Forest Service road provides access to our Rio Guadalupe home water and it accumulates a lot of roadside trash over a season's heavy use by the many people who visit that corridor. Doing these annual cleanups is one way we can express our thanks for the wonderful trout fishing opportunities the Rio Guadalupe affords while we help maintain it in a state that we like ... Read More
April 16, 2013
Ron Loehman, Conservation Chairman In July 2010, a collaboration of the Santa Fe National Forest and the Valles Caldera National Preserve, and several Pueblo tribes was awarded a ten-year $40 million Federal project to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire in the Southwest Jemez. The objective is to restore many of the characteristics the forest enjoyed before centuries of overgrazing, logging, and fire suppression produced the landscape we see today of smaller, closely spaced trees that are susceptible to massive crown fires. After a lot of study, formal environmental assessments, and many public hearings, the collaboration has released its Proposed ... Read More
April 16, 2013
Instead of the regular general meetings in February and March, plan on attending other NM Trout sponsored events: the Fly Fishing Movies tour on February 22 and the Conclave on March 2 ... Read More
February 10, 2013