The annual Gila Trout Recovery Team meeting was held on December 17th in Albuquerque. This is a meeting where all the agencies and NGOs that work on Gila trout gather to review the work of past year, and the work plan for the next yer is laid out. There were several interesting items that came out of this year’s meeting that I’d like to share with you.
Regarding restoration efforts on the core conservation populations, the biggest project over the past several years has been the recovery of the …

The Fall 2009 Newsletter has been published. It’s all digital so you can read it now.
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Viva las Truchas Natives!
Now you can wear your appreciation for New Mexico’s native trout and help NMTU at the same time.
We have several designs for both the Gila trout and Rio Grande cutthroat trout, which can be ordered on several different colors and styles of clothing.  Coffee mugs too!
10% of the purchase price goes to support NMTU and our efforts to protect and restore our fisheries and cold water resources.
I have ordered several of these shirts to make sure the design reproduces well,  and they are good quality Hanes beefy-Ts.
Please …

The Enchanted Circle hosted a river clean up on the Red River Oct. 3rd. Members picked up 13 large bags of trash and some big items such as tires and t-posts. Overall members were surprised by how little trash was found between Junebug and Fawn Lakes campgrounds. Big thanks to all who donated time, food, gloves and bags.
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No one will ever accuse Alamitos Creek of being a destination trout fishery. You are going to come out of a day on the stream with a more bumps, bruises, scrapes and cuts than you will fish. Like a bad golfer, you’re going to spend a lot of time in the trees. On a long cast you might have 5 feet of actual fly line out of the rod. And you better know how to roll cast.

That said, this is an important little piece of water …