Announcements
Saturday, June 6 is Free Fishing Day at Tingley Beach. We are looking for volunteers to work with kids - to teach them how to cast, to teach them how to tie flies. If you are interested, please contact Jerry Burton. The event is from 9am to noon ... Read More
by Ron Loehman, Conservation Chair Save the date! Our annual BBQ will be held on Saturday, 30 May, in conjunction with a stream restoration clinic led by Bill Zeedyk, an expert in riparian and piscine habitats. Bill brings a lifetime of experience in natural resource conservation to the practice of river, wetland and riparian restoration. Upon retiring from the U.S. Forest Service with thirty-four years experience in habitat management, Bill founded a small consulting business with the mission of motivating others by developing and advancing simple techniques for healing incised streams and gullied wetlands. The event will be held alongside ... Read More
by Ron Loehman, Conservation Chair New Mexico Trout has a tradition of welcoming the Spring opening of FR 376 between the Gilman Tunnels and Porter's Landing with a volunteer trash pickup. That Forest Service road provides access to our Rio Guadalupe home water and it accumulates a lot of roadside trash over a season's heavy use by the many people who visit that corridor. Doing these annual cleanups is one way we can express our thanks for the wonderful trout fishing opportunities the Rio Guadalupe affords, while we help maintain it in a state that we like to visit. Twenty ... Read More
The Board would like to welcome to our group Jon Goecke. Jon comes to us from his participation in the Project Healing Waters Program headed up by Dave Patton. Jon is a new resident to New Mexico and member to New Mexico Trout. He brought the idea to the board to be the club's fishmaster, his duties will be to organize fishing outings for clubs members. He ran a similar program to take veterans hunting while living in Arizona. We would like to welcome Jon and his talents to the club and board of directors. The board would also like ... Read More
New Mexico Trout, herein referred to as the Club, is aware of the issues surrounding the passing of SB226/HB235. Governor Martinez has until April 10th to either sign or pocket veto the bill. The Club would like to provide some basic information for the membership to be able to review , if they are so inclined, and make their feelings known to the Governor's office as soon as possible at, 505-476-2200. Here is the link to SB226/HB235: https://www.newmexicotrout.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/SB0226.pdf Here is the link to former AG Gary King's opinion on stream access: https://www.newmexicotrout.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/NMAG040914.pdf Here is some additional information regarding navigable waters as ... Read More
From Land and Water Program Director, Mollie Walton, PhD January 2015 Newsletter The New Mexico Wetland Roundtables are part of a Wetlands Program Development Grant from EPA Region 6 to foster partnerships and collaboration for the restoration and protection of wetlands and riparian resources in New Mexico and are conducted on a semi-annual schedule. If you have not attended in the past, we would like you to see what the New Mexico Wetlands Roundtable is all about. The next meeting is March 26 (Thursday 9:00 am to 4:30 pm). This meeting will also be in celebration of Bill Zeeyk's 80th birthday. Presentations will ... Read More
The Forest Service has asked us to remove the aquarium setup at the Walatowa visitor center which NMT purchased for them in 2003. The NMT Board of directors posted the "free to a good home" notice on the NM Sci Teachers' web site and got a bunch of requests. Of them, the Board selected the Valles Caldera as having an intended purpose closest to our original intent of education and awareness of our native fish and fisheries. Kimberly DeVall at the Valles Caldera Preserve said they will maintain it as a native fish display in the visitor center. The 180 ... Read More
Dates have been set for the youth/adult fly fishing clinics for 2015 at the Valles Caldera National Preserve. New Mexico Trout will again provide the instructors for the clinics. New for this year we will be conducting the casting practice on a large stock tank rather than on land. Also new this year we will be fishing San Antonio Creek for the fishing part of the clinic. As in past years, the clinics will be held on weekends and the volunteers and students will be able to stay overnight in either the bunkhouse or the lodge. Dates for this year are June 20 ... Read More