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Taos Area Waters - February 24th, 2011
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED: 
42 °
FISHING: Great
The Red River is quietly kicking ass, with a good gang of cuttbows doing their thing. Green caddis larva work nicely, jackals, meat, and small stuff to the picky fish you can see. I'd do a tungsten zebra, the weight at the head serving to stabilize your drift.
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Taos Area Waters - November 12th, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED: 
42 °
FISHING: Poor
See the Rio Grande report. Otherwise, no.
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Taos Area Waters - October 21st, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED: 
67 °
FISHING: Excellent
Great colors, dry flies during bankers' hours, home for dinner. Keep a couple browns if you can (a little pre winter population culling), but don't go crazy, and don't take anything huge. That goes for the Santa Barbara especially; I've seen quite a few 11 plus inch fish in there this year.
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Taos Area Waters - September 30th, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
75 °
FISHING: Great
Plan for low water and skittish fishes (say that fast ten times). Santa B, Pueblo, Red, Tusas. Small visible flies and use the brush for cover. Did I talk about Eagle Nest? Big bows biting in the bays (say it fast eleven times.
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Taos Area Waters - September 16th, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
76 °
FISHING: Great
Chiquito, Hondo, del Pueblo, del Rancho, Pueblo de Taos, Red, Embudo, Santa Barbara - all you need to do is believe. Actually, these fish are running out of time to put on winter weight, so they'll hit the well presented fly every time. If they don't see you of course.
I like dries that are really visible, so I can still see them if they sink. Royal humpy is a favorite, H&L, and I like the good old Joe's Hopper too.
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Taos Area Waters - August 23rd, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
77 °
FISHING: Excellent
All the creeks are in prime shape, a little stained sometimes, but full of happy trout. I like a floaty dry, nothing else, like a bugmeister, Chernobyl anything, H&L, or trudes. Bow and arrow casts and dapping. If you want to do this and not have your line and leader fall back towards your reel when you hold your rod up straight, tie on another dry real close, a hard shell ant being my choice.
Costilla is beautiful, but it's getting absolutely hammered. Bank paths are like bear trails in Alaska. To get away from people, hunker down in the brushy stretches (there are more unwhacked fish in there anyway) and let them get away from you. Everyone seems to think it's the Costilla of old, when every single fish was stupid and couldn't get enough of a sore lip.
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Taos Area Waters - August 11th, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
86 °
FISHING: Great
Had an OK day on the Hondo last weekend, was reminded that its extremely high gradient and perpetual cold waters don't make for the most fertile trout habitat. Still, there are holes in it where stockers and wild browns are doing a good job of outcompeting the cutthroat. And any kind of food is a godsend (saw a nice morning mayfly hatch though).
Other Taos streams will fish well above irrigation activity, but don't expect much below where the water is warm enough to boil an egg. Rio del Rancho, Pot Creek, Chiquito, Red, and Hondo are your destinations. Of course Valle Vidal is always fun, especially as green as it is from these storms. There is a dilema though: fish midweek and get high flows; fish weekend and share the water with lots of people. Trout still thrive in high water, but bosses still fire if they catch you playing hooky on a Wednesday.
I should tell you some flies, but the fish are on a straight biological imperative as hot weather moves back in. They'll eat as their metabolisms dictate (there's plenty of all kinds of foods out there), or they won't if the water is too warm.
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Taos Area Waters - August 3rd, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
71 °
FISHING: Excellent
Attractor dries and total solitude, that's what awaits you if you want to put a thirty minute drive up the Rancho, Olla, or Chiquito. Valle Vidal should be like Justin Beiber with the right fly and a quick hook set (in other words, like, totally hot right now. Ant or beetle type bugs should be lots of fun, small caddis, zebras, rainbow warriors, and heck, you want to fish a hopper where there's grass don't you?
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Taos Area Waters - July 9th, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
81 °
FISHING: Excellent
There's a three weight party up north, and you're invited. The Hondo has been giving up some fat cutties on red humpies (if you can stomach it, please consider eating the browns and rainbows you catch out of there). Valle Vidal is fishing well on hoppers, ants and crystal PTs, and the Sipapu Pueblo, Pot Creek, and Chiquito are good dapping and bow and arrow fishing with tons of solitude.
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Taos Area Waters - July 1st, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
82 °
FISHING: Excellent
Yes.
Creep along slowly, fish a dry you can see, and catch lots of browns on the Chiquito, SB, Sipapu Pueblo, Pot, and RG del Rancho. Water's likely too warm in the Embudo or Pueblo de Taos (it's late evening early morning fishing in those creeks).
I like a small brown and peacock wooly bugger too, but when the water's this fishy, why throw anything but a dry. It's a great time for a hike down to the Rio/Red confluence. Prospect with a caddis pupa or, trust me on this, a red annelid in about #18 or so, especially in the Rio. Secrets do really well above the confluence.
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