FISHING LINE

CATCHES OF THE WEEK

Ben Allen, 10, of Albuquerque caught a 2-pound and a 1-pound, 9-ounce white bass and caught and released three others Saturday at Elephant Butte Lake. He was fishing during a C.A.S.T. for Kids Foundation event and was using a white crank bait.

Jacob Salazar, 15, of Rio Rancho caught a 26-inch, 9-pound channel catfish Sunday on the Rio Grande. He was fishing in the Corrales area and using Rotten Shad dip bait.

AROUND THE STATE

HERON LAKE: Fishing has been slow to slowest. A few rainbow trout have been caught from shore by the Ridge Rock boat ramp. Bait used was PowerBait. No one has been out trolling as all three boat ramps are out of the water. Water is still being released at 500 cfs. Snagging season at Heron does not begin until Nov. 9. I can’t say that the chance of catching a lot of salmon is good, but there’s a lot more to salmon snaagging than catching fish. Don Wolfley, Stonehouse Lodge

SHADY LAKES: Trout are biting on night crawler worms, salmon eggs and PowerBait. Catch-and-release large mouth bass and bluegill are biting on plastics and top-water lures.

NOTES from GAME & FISH

At ELEPHANT BUTTE, fishing was excellent using crank baits, swim baits, topwater lures, slab spoons, sassy shad and blade baits. Several anglers said it didn’t make any difference what lure you were using, as long as it was white.

Fishing at UTE LAKE was excellent using worms, crank baits and grubs for bluegill.

At EAGLE NEST LAKE, fishing was very good using worms, PowerBait, spinners and jigs for perch.

Monday morning flows on the CHAMA RIVER below El Vado and Abiquiu were 604 cfs and 417 cfs, respectively. Trout fishing below Heron Lake was good using woolly buggers, prince nymphs and copper John Barrs. Trout fishing below El Vado was good using weighted woolly buggers, green copper John Barrs, bead-head hares’ ears, night crawlers and chamois leeches for brown and rainbow trout.

Fishing at FENTON LAKE was good using woolly buggers, leeches, worms and salmon eggs for trout.

Trout fishing on the JEMEZ and the EAST FORK was good using worms, Fire Balls and mop flies.

At NAVAJO LAKE, fishing was good using crank baits, chatter baits, swim baits and plastics for northern pike. Fishing was good using drop shot rigs, crank baits, chatter baits and curly-tail grubs for smallmouth and largemouth bass.

Streamflow on the SAN JUAN RIVER below Navajo Lake on Monday morning was 750 cfs, but the Bureau of Reclamation had scheduled a decrease in flow to 500 cfs by 11 p.m. Fishing was good using fore and afts, red larva, root beers, dead chickens, ants, zebra midges, red annelids, parachute Adams and Griffiths gnats for brown and rainbow trout. Through the bait waters, fishing was good using small spoons, San Juan worms, woolly buggers, copper John Barrs, PowerBait, worms and salmon eggs.

At CONCHAS LAKE, fishing was very good using top-water lures, spinnerbaits, chatter baits and square billed crank baits for largemouth and smallmouth bass.

Fishing at MONASTERY LAKE was good for anglers using wooly buggers, PowerBait and salmon eggs for trout.

At SANTA ROSA LAKE, fishing was good using top-water lures, spinnerbaits, crank baits, swim baits and creature baits for largemouth and smallmouth bass.

Fishing at BLUE HOLE PARK POND was good using PowerBait for trout.

At SNOW LAKE, fishing was good using floating trout bait for rainbow trout.

Fishing at ALTO LAKE was good using worms and hot dogs for catfish.

At BRANTLEY LAKE, fishing was good using crank baits, chatter baits, senkos, tubes and ned rigs for largemouth and white bass.