They stock trout in the Rio Grande River below the dam that forms Elephant Butte Lake. One guy in camp who fishes the river all the time started to catch lots of trout so we thought we would give it a try. Wow! What a blast -- we've caught lots of beautiful rainbow trout between 12" and 15". They are really tasty just panfried.
There was an earthen dam in this part of the river that they just removed. You can't tell it was even there. This caused more current in the river which even though it is very low it must be what got the trout moving. We hear that when they open the headgates at the big dam at Elephant Butte than the walleye start swimming up this river. We've also heard that people fish shoulder to shoulder when the walleye are in here -- not sure we want to deal with that -- we might see what the increased current does to lake fishing.
The picture of the fish in the net was from our last fishing adventure on the lake. It's a catfish that Jim caught or Nebraskan Walleye as he called it. We have two couples from Nebraska as neighbors so Jim loves to give them grief. They came to fish also. He also caught a tumbleweed. I should have taken a picture of that in the net. Only in New Mexico can you set your hook and bag yourself a tumbleweed!!
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