Catch of the Week
BERRENDO CREEK: Miguel Barrera of Clovis caught a 3-pound largemouth bass using a wacky rigged watermelon Senko Oct. 10.
BLUEWATER LAKE: Robert Gutierrez of Sandia Park caught a 32-inch tiger muskie using a green and yellow crankbait Oct. 24.
EAGLE NEST LAKE: Adrian Toscano of Los Lunas caught a 24.5-inch rainbow trout using PowerBait Oct. 31. ELEPHANT BUTTE LAKE: Brandon Christner of Las Cruces caught a 4-pound smallmouth bass using a shad-colored squarebill crankbait Oct. 30. Chris Johnson of Albuquerque caught a 5.2-pound largemouth bass using The Deal swimbait on a Ned rig Oct. 24.
FENTON LAKE: Richard Candelaria of Albuquerque caught a 17-inch rainbow trout using red PowerBait Oct. 25. GRINDSTONE RESERVOIR: Adrian Kison of Las Cruces caught a 17.5-inch rainbow trout using a natural-colored Trout Magnet Oct. 30. Mikey Mora of El Paso, Texas caught a 23-inch rainbow trout using worms Oct. 29.
SAN JUAN RIVER: Mike and John Thomason of Albuquerque and Bend, Ore. caught two 20-inch rainbow trout using size 26 chocolate foam-back emerger flies and size 26 zebra midge flies Oct. 30.
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Mike and John Thomason of Albuquerque and Bend, Oregon,
caught two 20-inch rainbow trout Oct. 30 on the San Juan River.