Stream Report for Thursday June 1, 2006

 

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Stream Report for Wednesday June 1, 2006

 

San Juan River   flows are 4130 cfs below Navajo Dam

Good fishing continues on the San Juan.  I’ve had good reports with the increase in flows. These flows make for tough wading however. Fish the flats if you are wading. Flies for the Juan include griffith’s gnats, parachute adams, BWO’s, small pheasant tails, red and black midge larvae, baetis emergers, and johnny flash and red San Juan worms.

 

Rio Grande     flows are 194 cfs in the Wild and Scenic section and 328 cfs at Pilar

The Rio has murked up a bit from the recent storms to pass our way. A few fish are coming up to dry flies in the late afternoon.  Pheasant tails, caddis larvae and pupa, poundmeisters, double hackle peacocks, and woolly buggers are picking up most of the fish. The river is fishable although I’ve had no reports.

 

Cimarron River     flows are 51 cfs below Eagle Nest Dam

The water is a little stained as the flows keep changing. Small non-beadheaded flies are the key here like black midge larva, pheasant tails, as well as scuds, parachute adams, and Griffiths gnats. It’s a little tough to fish at these flows.

 

Pecos River     flows are 44 cfs below Terrero

In spite of the cold nights and lack of snowpack, the Pecos is still fishing well. Although a little cold early in the mornings, fishing is better then than around noon. Stonefly nymphs are crawling around and midges and caddis are coming off most days. Small dark bodied flies like pheasant tails, prince nymphs, WD40’s, copper johns, stonefly nymphs, and parachute adams are what’s working.

 

Jemez Mountain streams

The summer slowdown is already upon the Jemez. The higher elevation streams like San Antonio and Cebolla are fishing better because of more favorable water temps but harder not to spook fish with the lower flows. The best reports are from the East Fork draining the Caldera, upper San Antonio.  Dry fly dropper rigs using stimulators or caddis dry flies and small beadhead nymphs are picking up most of the fish.

 

Chama River     flows are 741 cfs below El Vado dam and 961 cfs below Abiquiu dam

Releases on the Chama go up as the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy district fills up the irrigation canals or as the Rio Grande starts to run dry near Socorro. This has slowed the fishing dramatically below Abiquiu dam and the water is very murky. There is a little better fishing below El Vado especially if the flows drop below 500. Big heavy beadhead nymphs and sreamers are the flies for the Chama.

 

MacAllister Lake

The high winds kept quite a bit of anglers from heading out to MacAllister. Damsel nymphs, double hackle peacocks and stonefly nymphs fished just above the weeds was working for one angler.