Catches of the Week
HERON LAKE: On July 3, Elizabeth Freeland, 10, of Nashville, Tenn., caught an 18.25-inch kokanee salmon and Albuquerque resident Linda Gray caught a 19-inch kokanee. Sam Bayliss, 15, of Raton, caught an 18.75-inch kokanee July 4. All the kokanee were caught on double whammies tipped with corn. Edmundo Valenzuela, of Albuquerque, caught a 16-pound, 7-ounce lake trout July 3 using a kokanee killer.
Fishing Notes
ABIQUIÚ LAKE: The fishing for smallmouth bass was very good using clousers, tubes, jerk baits, crank baits, top water lures, worms and senkos. The fishing for walleye was good using jerk baits, clousers, minnows, salt craws, grubs, tubes and crank baits. The fishing for catfish was fair using cut bait, liver and night crawlers on trotlines and on rod and reel.
CHAMA RIVER: The water flows Monday morning below El Vado and Abiquiú dams were 208 cubic feet per second and 244 cubic feet per second, respectively. The trout fishing was fair using grasshoppers, night crawlers, spinners, streamers and salmon eggs.
EL VADO LAKE: The trout fishing was slow to fair using power bait, night crawlers, Kastmasters, spinner/corn combos and salmon eggs.
HOPEWELL LAKE: The trout fishing was slow to fair using power bait, worms, damsel flies and spinners.
RIO GRANDE: The water flow Monday morning at the Taos Junction Bridge was 895 cubic feet per second. The trout fishing was slow to fair using spinners, spoons, black and olive wooly buggers and night crawlers.
JEMEZ WATERS: The water flow on the Jemez River Monday morning near Jemez Springs was 35 cubic feet per second. The fishing on the Jemez, Cebolla, Rio Guadalupe, San Antonio and East Fork of the Jemez was good using spinners, humpys, beetles, grass hoppers, worms, ants, salmon eggs and spinners.
LAGUNA DEL CAMPO: The trout fishing was fair to good using Kastmasters, spinners, Pistol Petes under a bubble and power bait.
SAN JUAN RIVER: The water flow below Navajo Lake Monday morning was 487 cubic feet per second. The trout fishing through the Quality Waters was good using dead chickens, chamois leeches, red annelids, chocolate emergers, San Juan worms, bead head pheasant tails, small hair jigs and small streamers. The fishing through the bait waters was good using night crawlers, wooly buggers, copper john barrs and jerk baits.
SANTA CRUZ LAKE: The trout fishing near the dam was good using power bait, worms, salmon eggs, spoons, jerk baits and spinners.