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Floating the Mainstream Au Sable River.
Kevin Reilly and I are in Michigan for the TU 50th Anniversary meeting. We’re fishing in Grayling for a few day before the meeting starts in Traverse City. The fishing is great, the catching…not so much.
We’ll have a report from the meeting after we return.
The first segment of the large Rio Costilla project was completed today as the NM Department of Game and Fish, the federal agencies, and volunteers from TU stocked out the first batch of Rio Grande Cutthroat. Kevin Reilly participated in the stocking, and hopefully he’ll have some pictures next week.
TU has contributed over $100,000 and countless hours to this project.
Here is the press release from NMDGF:
The New Mexico Council of Trout Unlimited has joined with several other sportsmen’s groups to form the San Juan Quality Waters Coalition. The purpose of this group is to address the issues that have resulted in a general decline in the trout fisheries on the San Juan since the Bureau of Reclaimation changed the flow regime out of Navajo Dam in 2002.
Though the stated purpose of the flow change was to improve habitat for the Colorado Pikeminnow, it was fairly obvious to anyone who read through the EIS, that the real, covert reason was to suck as much water out of the river without violating the Endangered Species Act restrictions as they pertain to the pikeminnow.
On February 25th, the coalition sent this letter to the San Juan Recovery Imlementation – Coordination Committee asking them to address the numerous problems on the San Juan river that have impacted the fishery. The San Juan remains New Mexico’s premier destination trout fishery, and the actions of the BoR have had serious negative impacts on the economy surrounding the fishery.
Tim Pinnow of Las Cruces pulled this monster out of the Gila River last week.
The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish as put out a salvage order for the Santa Fe River from June 5th, 2008 through June 9th.
They stocked out 500 fish for the kids fishing day last weekend, and they’ve offered up the opportunity for anyone to go get the left-overs by any means possible. They are doing this to allow anglers to get the fish out before the city turns off the water (sounds kind of stupid doesn’t it - to turn off a river?).
Here’s the text of the news release:
UPDATE: The NM Game Commission did indeed approve this regulation change for the upper 4 mile stretch of the San Juan.
At the Game Commission meeting in Farmington on Thursday, May 29th, the commission will take up a proposal from the NM Dept. of Game and Fish (NMDGF) to limit anglers to two hooks on the San Juan River from Navajo Dam down to the Hammond Diversion. Basically this is targeted at the Special Regulation water.
At the April meeting, they put forth this same proposal for all waters in New Mexico. While TU did not take a position on that proposal, several members of TU and NM Trout, including myself opposed the proposal. The department put forth no data to show that there was a problem with anglers using more than two hooks, and I thought they were over-reaching by trying to make this a state-wide change.
The last time I got out on some New Mexico Water, it was last month and the Pecos was looking decidedly snowy. Kevin Reilly and I got out and braved the cold for a few hours and while our success rate was low, it was a fabulous day. There is just something special about being alone on the water, listening to snowflakes hit your hat with the authority of heavy spring snow.
What have your spring fishing adventures been like?
Greg McReynolds
Kevin Reilly and I fished the Cochetopa today on the way back from the TU Regional meeting in Grand Junction. It was the only water we could find (in 380 miles of driving) that was fishable.
If you’ve not been there, it’s an interesting stream that flows out of the La Garita Mountains and into Tomichi Creek several miles east of Gunnison. There is a Colorado State Wildlife Area there on the Coleman Ranches (Coleman Natural Beef). The flow out of the Dome Lakes was high but managable. Nothing big, but at least we got to hook into some trout.
William Schudlich
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