Buck -
Pretty cool getting fishies to hit the first flies you have tied. Next time out I bet you can get some pics of one of your flies with a trout chomping on it.
Kind of weird that they hit the indicator. Reminds me of some pike minnows on the Salmon River in Idaho several years ago that kept hitting the indicator. I did what you did - big attractor pattern - and finally hooked and landed one out of the five or six that hit it.
John
That’s pretty sweet that you got hits on your own flies! Can’t wait to read your next report.
@John: What’s a pike minnow 
I thought they were called something else 
That’s what the squawfish in New Mexico are called. Maybe these are just baby pike.
Sasha -
Just to confirm what herefishy said - pike minnows are commonly called squawfish. Only caught that one down in Idaho, but I did catch a couple up here on the Bitterroot this past summer. They took a small streamer, and all of them took it after the streamer stopped swinging and was just hanging in the current.
They pull reasonably well for their size. And they are a pretty fish.
John
Pikeminnow is the PC name for a Squawfish.
I love the Juan !!! Always had good fishing there !!! I’m curious as to what that guide was using. Next time down try a tan or cream strip leech pattern, many of the locals swear by it, and the larger fish love 'em.
Mike 
Well, I guess these reports might be getting a bit repetitive at this point but I did try a new approach on the river this time. Remembering back to the last time when the fish were striking my orange thingamabobber I thought I would go with a large orange salmon egg and an orange San Juan Worm after a discussion with the gents at the Reel Life in Santa Fe.
I Honestly don’t know why I did not do this before but I was too focused on bugs and not bait. It makes sense now that I think about it. I would have never put on the worm in the Pecos but as you will see, it was the only thing that produced on this day.
I hit the usual hole first above the Tererro bridge:
I worked this area well. It took a long time playing around with depth. I started shallow and went lower. Once I got near the bottom I pulled a little guy out on the Worm.
After that I moved to a new section of river I had spied a while back but never hiked to.
There were a couple nice slow pools but I did not get any interest in the Worm or the Egg. This was a quick trip and that was all I brought with me so that ended this day on the Pecos…
If you have Google Earth this is the location of that bridge…
I wish I knew. He did mention that he was using large flies. We had crossed paths late in the day and we chatted it up for a minute.
Some of the guides around this area swear by a large Griffiths Gnat. I tried that, I didn’t get anything but maybe I will go larger next time…
Looks like a fun day. Did you try any other flies besides the SJW?
Nope, just an egg and the worm. It was a quick trip just to see if it would pan out.
I went out again today with a bunch of my own flies. I didn’t get anything but can you beat being on the river with a box of flies you tied on a day like this?
Great looking spot - you must have missed the storm that hit here in Las Cruces. Sure has been a long winter, we should be in shorts by now.
Well, another day on the water.
I thought I would start a little earlier today. I don’t think it made that much of a difference.
I started out using your basic GR Hare’s Ear and a small black Midge dropper. I didn’t have a lot of luck with that so I just added another dropper off the midge. This was a small red San Juan Worm.
At least one fish seemed to like it:
He looks worried but he has nothing to fear from me. I like my eatin’ fish a bit larger and of the salt water variety. I am, for the most part, strictly a catch, scare the **** out of, and release dude when it comes to trout.
So he goes back home to the same slow moving section I took him from:
Another good day hunting La Gran Trucha…
When the wife and I fished the San Juan a few years back…for 3 full days…the guides were using all SMALL flys…#22-#24 RS2’s and WD40’s as dropper…along with some other ??..teenie tiny thing??
Buck -
Sure is a pretty creek.
Do you guys have a lot of water that is open year round down there in NM ??
Also, was the little red SJ worm one of your homebrew flies ??
John
Could have been a number of things.
I had great luck with the Foam Wing RS2!
Well, the Pecos is mostly frozen over except for the few sections you see in my pictures but we have the San Juan and the Rio Grande which are year round.
Nah, the little red worm was just something I had in my box from the San Juan trip.
I will tie some up tonight though and try em out tomorrow I think.
They like those worms it seems…
I finally got one today on a Green rock Work thing I tied up this morning. I actually did well today. I hooked three landed one. I hooked one out of deep pool that was a fairly big fish.
I got him close but he wiggled off.
Seems the killer combo is a small SJWorm and the Green Rock Worm. They hit the Rock Worm on the first cast.
I almost took a swim today to LOL! The ice broke off before I expected it to. Luckily I have good reflexes. I surfed ice for a minute.
I went out this last weekend to the Rio Grande near Pilar NM at the Toas Junction Bridge to try my luck at the elusive Trucha de Invierno, once again.
This isn’t easy fishing and I got skunked for the 2nd time out of 4 trips on this river this winter. I am thinking I just need to rig up for the pike which seems to be what everyone else is fishing for anyway.
But here are a few pictures just so you can get an idea of the lay of the land. I also took a small foot trip up a smaller feeder river, the Pueblo, looking for a nice looking hole but the banks were steep, muddy, and still had snow on them so I passed on sliding down into the canyon for now.
It is supposed to be really good Brown fishing on that smaller river.
This is where I always kick my day off on the Rio:
This is the trail that climbs up the canyon alongside the Rio Pueblo
This is one good section I will hit here as soon as the ground dries up a bit:
Buck -
That little creek looks like it will be a ton of fun.
Those footprints across the shelf ice into the creek, in the next to last report ?? I pulled one of those last week on the Bitterroot. I wasn’t wearing waders, just hiking boots, but fortunately the water was only a bit over ankle deep at the point where I went in.
John
Good to see that you got out again.
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