Hooked on Gila Trout
“SOME PEOPLE WANT to just go catch a fish,” says Kirk Patten, chief of fisheries for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. “Others will fly all the way across the country to fish for a native…
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Category: Fishing
Reeling In Conservation
“THIS IS WHERE EGGS GO,” Leonard Rice says, while pulling out a shallow drawer containing water and tiny apricot-colored spheres. The Glenwood Fish Hatchery manager is charged with spawning and…
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Angle for These Fishing Hot Spots
Eagle Nest Lake State Park HIGH IN THE NORTH-CENTRAL MOUNTAINS, Eagle Nest Lake State Park hosts multiple species for the chasing, says fly-fishing guidebook author and Taos Fly Shop founder Taylor…
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The Fisher’s Fisherman
Above: Norman Maktima fly-fishing in the Pecos River. Photographs by Andrew Kornylak. THE RÍO CHAMA FLOWS cold and green below Abiquiú Dam, north of Española. Some of us might look at the river and…
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Old Man River
Above: Taylor Streit in the Río Grande Gorge. A 2001 inductee to the Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame’s Legendary Guide List, he opened the Taos Fly Shop in 1980. THE TROUT MUST be feeding by now in…
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