I forgot to put in one picture of the Pecos. It is not an exceptionally large fish but it fought like a Bear…
Super reports and photos! Much enjoyed and appreciated S
Hugs,
LF
Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed…
I just wanted to throw out a flew flies that are working well for us right now on our rivers. The top water action is picking up but we are still fishing dry/dropper rigs for the most part.
That’s a beautiful ‘bow in your last fish picture!
Those are some really good-lookin’ flies you’ve tied there, too!
Oh no, I do not tie those, I buy those LOL!
Well, except for that cased caddis and that Mayfly Emerger in the 2nd and 3rd pics. I reserve my tying for midges, emergers and other simpler flies. I am not a great fly tier by any stretch of the imagination. These are mostly Umpqua brand flies.
Yes, those Bows in there are healthy, big, and strong!
That last fish is about 200 yrds below where I nabbed that 27 incher…
vmabuck…uuuuuuhhhhh, just thought I’d let you know that your posts are coming in all broken up…can’t read much, pictures are really fuzzy…oh, nevermind, might be the tears of envy in my eyes, lol.
Awesome pictures, keep them coming!
TT.
Well thanks!
I know that feeling though. It is like when I go through KeatonsDad thread about “Playing Hooky.” All those HUGE Browns!
Totally envious!!! LOL!
Those are some nice fish in the last few posts! Keep em coming, need something to read while our rivers blow out.
The Fly Shop I am starting to guide through recently acquired a nice section of river to fish, again. They have used it to guide on in the past but it has been a while.
This area is still on the Pecos but farther south that where we do most of our fishing. It is quite a long section and it is not very pressured. Another great thing about it is that it is virtually untouched by the locals so it is very scenic and free of trash.
It is a little unique in that it is the section of the river that is owned by our local Benedictine Monastery. Since I have never fished this section I got my first scouting session in today.
It started off a bit slow but the fish woke up after a while. For the first half of the day I ran a dry dropper rig. Using a yellow/orange body Stimmy and a free-living caddis as a dropper.
This river is full of them.
That was the only shot I got that was not out of focus but that stick had about 10 caddis on it hanging on for dear life.
The Stones were also hatching along with Mayflies and some Caddis. The topwater activity was the best so far this year. I caught quite a few on dry and even got some airshows from fish attempting to take it so aggressively they shot completely out of the water.
The river is still full of huge Stone Nymphs though. I would play around up top on the pools first them drag through them with some Stonefly Nymphs.
This is the first rock I picked up to see what I should be working in this section.
I pretty much know what I will find in this river at this point but I always have fun checking out the local bug life.
I would say, conservatively, I caught around 30 fish today. Most of these our resident wild Browns. I had a few decent size Rainbows on but I think these were probably stockers that had made there way down.
These are the average size Browns we are getting there.
It was a great day!
We are not expecting much runoff. We had about half of the snowfall we usually get this winter.
I doubt we will get much higher than what you see in the pictures above…
Excellent post, Buck!!! I have always wanted to fish the stretch behind the monastery. I love the stoneflies loaded on that rock… great pic!
I have always wanted to know as well, now I do. I have been fishing that river for two and a half years and not one trip up that canyon did I not wonder about it.
It was very peaceful. I had Spiritual Castings LOL!
Ya, the Stonefly population was immense…
We did three areas this weekend but we kind of split up on Sunday. We fished the Guadalupe, De las Vacas, Cochiti lake and, of course, the Pecos. got to get at least one trip in there a week. I only call this three areas because the De Las Vacas and the Guadalupe are kind of one in the same.
I will post some pics later on today…
What a summer here!
Huge fires plagued New Mexico, we had 50% of our annual snowfall, really weak monsoons, and closures of nearly all of our national forests. We were restricted to fishing on private waters and that is our guiding water so not a whole lot of personal fishing got done this year. As the busy months start wrapping up and the rains reinvigorate our streams I am hoping that will pick up over the fall.
We did get out to a couple trips out to some of our more secret locations we know of on BLM land which was not closed to foot traffic.
I got a lot of pictures to get loaded up, hopefully here soon.
Hope everyone else had a better season in their areas…