New Mexico anglers seeking ideal trout waters should travel to the northern part of the state where the fish are biting on various baits.
Fishing for rainbow trout was good using olive streamer flies on the Rio Grande River near Questa.
Trout fishing was fair to good using elk caddis flies, blowtorch nymph flies and Higa’s S.O.S. nymph flies along the Shuree Ponds.
Fishing for rainbow trout on the San Juan River was very good using size-22 zebra midges in the quality waters.
Fishing for trout was fair to good when using Cheese Garlic PowerBait and casting small spoons from the dam at Fenton Lake, and very good when using rainbow nymph and grey foam wing emerger flies.
Trout fishing was fair to good using PowerBait at the Gravel Pits along the Cimarron River.
Along the Rio Grande near Pecos, trout fishing was slow using Chernobyl fly variants and a variety of nymphs.
Trout fishing was also good in Lincoln County at Alto Lake using a combo of worms, Kastmasters and rainbow spinners. Fishing for largemouth bass was good using rainbow spinners.
Non-trout species popular in northern and southern waterways
At Ute Lake, fishing for white bass, smallmouth bass and catfish was good when using jig heads and 4-inch Gulp minnows.
Tiger muskie fishing was slow using swimbaits at Bluewater Lake.
Fishing for largemouth bass was slow to fair when using rooster tail spinners at Liam Knight Pond.
Fishing for smallmouth bass was slow to fair using Ned rigs.
Fishing for catfish was slow at Tingley Beach near Albuquerque using chicken liver.
At Escondida Lake in southern New Mexico, fishing for bass was slow to fair using worms.
At Carlsbad at Bataan Lake, fishing for catfish was slow using shrimp on a Carolina rig.
Near Clovis at Ned Houk Ponds, fishing for catfish was good when using chicken liver.
This fishing report has been generated from the best information available at the time of publication.
