Jonathan Sturgeon and his group caught and released between 10-20 rainbow trout and brown trout each day on May 5 and 6 below Eagle Nest Lake on the Cimarron River, using size-14 stone fly emergers ...

Sean Pearson caught a northern pike on the Rio Grande below the Taos Junction Bridge using a Rooster Tail spinner on June 7. Alex Puskar caught a catfish at Navajo Lake using a Bomber Model A on June ...

Tony Lujan caught a 20-inch Gila trout using a white tail spinner bait on June 8, 2025 at Lake Roberts near Silver City. Information and photos provided by New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Good ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish is making progress on increasing the reproduction of one of the rarest trout species in the United States. NMDGF said progress has ...

Sep. 25—At age 69, Jim Brooks is still traversing the Gila Wilderness with his pack mules and a purpose. Though he retired from a long career as a fish biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

SILVER CITY, N.M. — Gila trout (Oncorhynchus gilae gilae) is endemic to mountain streams in the Gila, San Francisco, Agua Fria, and Verde river drainages in New Mexico and Arizona. Gila trout was ...

It has been one week since the Trout Fire was reported four miles southeast of Gila, New Mexico with the U.S. Forest Service noting it is 11% contained. That latest figure cited by the National ...

Firefighters continued to battle the Trout Fire in Gila National Forest near Silver City as it grew to 38,682 acres from gusty winds and high temperatures on June 18. The fire remains uncontained, ...

Short stretches of the Gila River and its tributaries extending from the desert mountains of southern New Mexico into Arizona are home to the struggling Gila trout, which federal wildlife managers ...