Small Streams And Tributaries Have Good Fishing
Photo by George Morse/ladailypost.com
Photo by George Morse/ladailypost.com
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
With the temperatures soaring here in the Espanola Valley and the big rivers still swollen with runoff, escaping the heat and finding good fishing in flowing water was a challenge. There are several viable options for local anglers. Head to the high country and fish the smaller headwater streams and tributaries where runoff has peaked and the water levels are falling.
Los Alamos-based anglers can head to the Jemez Mountains where the water is dropping fast.
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Tihange 2 nuclear reactor. Photo by Michielverbeek – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5747203
By Homeland Security News Wire:
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Claude Phipps
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The fishing on the Chama River below El Vado Dam is fair-to-good. Courtesy Photo
By GEORGE MORSE
Los Alamos Daily Post
The Rio Grande and streams flowing out of the Sangre de Cristo mountains are still running high. The Pecos River may be your best bet. Despite heavy flows, the fishing has been fair to good. Fly fishers should go with nymphs or San Juan worms. Flows in the Red River are still heavy. The Red River above Questa received a stocking of bigger-than-average trout last week.
Streams in the Jemez mountains are in better condition as the runoff has already peaked and streams are dropping and Read More
