CATCH OF THE WEEK:
Amy Anderson, of Los Alamos, caught and released a 26-inch walleye May 7 at Abiquiú Lake using a glow harness/worm combo.
ABIQUIÚ LAKE: The fishing for walleye was good using crank baits, tubes, jerk baits and wally pops. Most of the fish were taken from less than 10 feet of water. A few smallmouth bass were taken by anglers using jerk baits and tubes.
EAGLE NEST LAKE: The trout fishing was fair to good using spoons, spinners, power bait, Pistol Petes and salmon eggs. The fishing for perch was fair using worms.
SANTA CRUZ LAKE: The trout fishing was good using power bait, salmon eggs, wooly buggers and spinners.
FENTON LAKE: The trout fishing was fair to good using salmon eggs and worms.
HERON LAKE: The fishing for lake trout was slow to fair trolling Flatfish and Bombers at depths of 30 to 35 feet. The bank fishing for rainbow trout was fair using power bait and spinners.
JEMEZ WATERS: The water flow on the Jemez River near Jemez Springs Monday morning was 145 cubic feet per second. The trout fishing was fair on the San Antonio, Guadalupe, Rio Las Vacas and East Fork of the Jemez using salmon eggs, worms, spinners, stone fly nymphs and copper john barrs.
RIO GRANDE: The water flow at Taos Junction Bridge Monday morning was 3,250 cubic feet per second. The fishing was slow for all species.
SAN JUAN RIVER: The water flow below Navajo Lake Monday morning was 510 cubic feet per second. The trout fishing through the Quality Waters was fair using parachute adams, dead chickens, BWOs, small pheasant tail nymphs, San Juan worms and little princesses. The fishing in the bait waters was fair using night crawlers, salmon eggs wooly buggers and jerk baits. Anglers can expect water flows to start ramping up May 20 and by May 28 reach 5,000 cubic feet per second.