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Rio Chama - March 18th, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED: 
59 °
FISHING: Poor
It's tough to call any day on the Chama poor, because the fishing there is always worth it. At least to me. I'm talking about the Abiquiu stretch here, and while there's always a good chance for a nice fish or ten there, I always prepare myself for a butt whooping. That way I'm always pleasantly surprised when it doesn't happen. How's that for a totally qualified fishing report. I like fishing at least one fly that is known for drawing hard hits, a jackal, camo bugger, or a cranefly larva. I'll have a tiny fly in the mix too, a disco midge, chronocone or the like. Cover every inch of river bottom that you can and keep an itchy trigger finger for soft takes.
I've heard of one good report at El Vado. They're hitting big streamers below Coops. I'd dead drift some and try some action every now and then. Someone got a 27" brown last week on an eight-inch Rapala, put it back too. Get on the Chama soon if you've got the jones, because once runoff starts, it's going to be blowing hard until late June.
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Rio Chama - February 2nd, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
41 °
FISHING: Fair
Heard a story the other day, a second hand tale from a GandF biologist who had studied the river below Abiquiu pretty extensively. Apparently there are cutbanks that reach more than ten feet under land. They hold very huge trout sometimes, fish over 30 that when radiocollared have been documented to wander down to the Chama's confluence with the Rio, that when stomach sampled are known to have a predilection for rodents, mice and baby beavers.
Thought you'd want to know what that thing is chomping on your leg when you wade in too deep.
Also heard some whining about crowds at the Q. Nothing to do about that but deal; many act like the Chama's some big secret, but there are many old timers who knew that to be false even when New Mexico was still considered to be another country. And there are more fly anglers, the NM population has doubled since my childhood. So yeah, I guess we'll have to deal.
Fish big and baity (worms and eggs) or small and buggy, or both. I'd use the same approach at Coops.
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Rio Chama - January 28th, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED: 
33 °
FISHING: Fair
Below Q or El Vado, who's to say you won't light it up. But I'm to say it probably won't happen. Wonderful fishing weather though, lots of solitude. I'd have an orange worm on the line, and/or an egg pattern. Flashy PT, renegade, green rockworm, something that will wake a fish up.
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Rio Chama - January 12th, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
37 °
FISHING: Good
Relatively speaking, fishing isn't bad below Abiquiu, with some surface feeding going on and the standard small nymph, egg pattern, and worm thing working now and again. Great to be outside, eh? That's what it's about.
No recent reports from Coops, so I think I'm going to go up next week and get me one. Stay tuned.
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Rio Chama - December 16th, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
36 °
FISHING: Fair
Below Abiquiu is a nice afternoon's fishing. Going big (chupacabra stonefly) and small (midges in all colors) and bait (yellow eggs, red and orange worms) will yield some fish, though probably not many.
Coops will still fish for spawning holdovers. They're probably wiped out, but they may be hanging out trying to get the weight back on.
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Rio Chama - December 2nd, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
41 °
FISHING: Great
The El Vado bloodbath is probably over, the meat fishermen having taken and impressive and heartbreaking haul. Add to that the general mayhem around the run of Abiquiu browns, and we might wonder if any fish, or eggs for that matter, will make it to adulthood. Methinks, however, that there were all sorts of fish buttering bread up and down the river. Expect more peaceful fishing with nymphs, baetis, midges, or throw worm patterns to the holdovers who will be refueling before heading back down to Abiquiu. I tried below the Monastery and got my butt whooped by water I think might have been barren. Went below Abiquiu and found a good number of takers.
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Rio Chama - November 20th, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
FISHING: Excellent
This is the game, from Coops down to Abiquiu, Coops being where most of the fish, and people, are. I'd try below Heron too if I had the time (a possibility for you kokanee snaggers out there). It's a major migration event, with browns moving to mate and the rainbows moving in behind them. Flies don't really matter, finding fish does. Egg beads, worms, grubs, small streamers, and on picky days, try tiny and flashy. If you're hanging bottom too much, take off weight. If you're not hanging at all, add just a little or just a heavy fly for your top hook.
Really though, take it easy on those fish, especially the hens.
Abiquiu is a tiny fly deal, though I sometimes like to mix in a fly with a history of hard hits like the renegade or a small camobugger.
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Rio Chama - November 3rd, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED: 
3 °
FISHING: Poor
Lots of people are telling me not to divulge anything about the Chama. So don't go to Coops or Abiquiu, and don't use midges like black beauties, zebras, or jujubes. Stay away from soft hackles and streamers (camo buggers are the worst) and worms, especially not egg patterns. Because you will only catch small fish. The browns are particularly small, tiny in fact.
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Rio Chama - October 21st, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
40 °
FISHING: Great
My website maintenance options only allow for several standard generalizations, so I often have to qualify. I'm saying "great" because there's a vibe in the air that I sense is being caused by a gang of huge browns moving out of Abiquiu upstream. Now of course they're spawning, but if you don't harass fish on the beds, you will get some good sport, and the fish will be hotter. Plus, there will be some big rainbows moving in behind them for some egg snacks, especially in the Heron stretch. But be cool to the fish.
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Rio Chama - October 8th, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
65 °
FISHING: Great
Flows are still in flux at Coop's, but expect them to stabilize. Pretty much everywhere from town on down should fish well on small mayflies, although opportunistic feeding is definitely the deal right now. Streamers near the banks and through the tailouts might yield a monster for you; if you get an overly colored or scarred brown or any super ripe hens, you should get out of there and find somewhere else to fish. Keep an eye out for the gravel, and for bears.
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