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CATCHES OF THE WEEK

Albuquerque’s Mark Chavez; his sons, Nolan and Luke; and his brother, Greg, caught and released 17 trout and kept six for dinner using green-andwhite tungsten ice jigs tipped with green PowerBait and wax worms at Fenton Lake on March 4.

Justin Kersting of Rio Rancho caught and released a 28-inch walleye on the Rio Grande using cut bait near Elephant Butte Lake on March 9.

At Tingley Beach, Dominic Jaramillo, 2, of Albuquerque caught his first fish, a 12-inch trout, using homemade dough bait in the kid’s pond March 7. … Evadel Garcia of Albuquerque caught a 19-inch rainbow trout using PowerBait on March 4. … Mario Sedillo of Albuquerque caught an 18-inch rainbow trout using PowerBait on March 3.

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NOTES from GAME & FISH

Fishing for trout at the SANTA CRUZ RESERVOIR was good using bright-yellow PowerBait.

Streamflow on the ANIMAS RIVER below Aztec on Monday morning was 435 cfs.

Fishing for trout at TIGER PARK RESERVOIR was good using olive beadhead, streamer flies.

Fishing for trout at TINGLEY BEACH was good using homemade dough bait and PowerBait. Fishing for trout in the catch-and-release pond was good using black-andolive, leech-pattern flies.

Fishing for trout at ALUMNI POND was good using chunky cheese PowerBait, Velveeta cheese, and black Pistol Pete spinner flies. Fishing for bass was fair to good using gold, gray and green streamer flies.

Fishing for trout at ESCONDIDA LAKE was good using salmon-peach PowerBait.

Streamflow on the GILA RIVER near Gila on Monday morning was 1,260 cfs.

Fishing for trout at GLENWOOD POND was good using salmon eggs and orange PowerBait.

Streamflow on the RIO GRANDE below Elephant Butte Dam on Monday morning was 0 cfs. Fishing for walleye was fair to good using cut bait near Elephant Butte Lake.

Fishing for trout at ALTO LAKE was good using worms.

Streamflow on the BLACK RIVER at Malaga on Monday morning was 5 cfs.

Fishing for trout at GRINDSTONE RESERVOIR was good using marshmallows, garlic PowerBait and salmonpeach PowerBait.

Fishing for trout at HARRY MCADAMS PARK POND was good using homemade dough bait. Fishing for bass was fair to good using purple plastic worms and creature baits.

Fishing for trout at LAKE VAN was good using PowerBait.

Fishing for trout at OASIS PARK LAKE was good using PowerBait.

Streamflow on the PECOS RIVER below Sumner Lake on Monday morning was 57 cfs.

Streamflow on the RIO RUIDOSO at Hollywood on Monday morning was 51 cfs.

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