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 Re: New Mexico Bass Fishing
[Re: Mark Perry]
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04/15/14 05:21 PM
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karpbuster
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Someone put Isleta on here, I actually like to fish Isleta, Sandia or Shady lakes. For bass Shady has the most, Isleta use to and can still be found. Even saw some nice ones this weekend at Tingley in the catch and release pond. I fish close to me a lot, Cochiti use to be my favorite, but it is a tough lake most of time. Now I fish a lot in the Jemez and Fenton lake for trout. But since you are south of Lubbock, I would think the lakes East of you would be better, but I don't know. The snowfall this year is not that great and the runoff and filling of lakes is going to be tough again this year. Ute lake has the most water and is not required to let it out. Santa Rosa, Sumner on the Pecos has water issues and Conchas has water issues (drought). But go in a few weeks best water of the year. The draw downs can be seen from the parks: NM Boating That was me that put Isleta. have not been in years but we used to go all the time. had to be creative to get my bass fix back then. Yeah it use to be the bomb for bass, I thought I was the only guy fishing for em, spinner baits over the moss and weeds. I like to fish in ABQ.
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Re: New Mexico Bass Fishing
[Re: Cedar Chopper's Grandson]
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04/15/14 07:39 PM
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pil,b
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I would sell my boat and take up bird watching are watching paint dry if New Mexico lakes was all I had to fish.
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Re: New Mexico Bass Fishing
[Re: pil,b]
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04/16/14 01:19 AM
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fishnfireman
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I would sell my boat and take up bird watching are watching paint dry if New Mexico lakes was all I had to fish.  Yer killin me..  Guess that's why you were a no show this weekend.. At least there were some fish caught.. might have to catch 6 shorts 5 sandies and a walleye for every keeper bass. But it was nice to get yer string pulled VS The last two. 
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Re: New Mexico Bass Fishing
[Re: Cedar Chopper's Grandson]
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04/16/14 01:30 AM
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RickS
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I would have to agree!!! Is Alan Henry really that bad? It's been probably 5 or 6 years that I've been. It sure beat anything New Mexico has. I fish hard in this state. You have too! From Plains Texas you should be 1 hour 24 minutes.
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Re: New Mexico Bass Fishing
[Re: Cedar Chopper's Grandson]
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04/16/14 01:41 AM
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Mark Perry
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NM may not have the best bass fishing but i still love it there. have family there and it will always be my 2nd home. Just something about the place I love. can't explain it.
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Re: New Mexico Bass Fishing
[Re: RickS]
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04/16/14 01:43 AM
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fishnfireman
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I would have to agree!!! Is Alan Henry really that bad? It's been probably 5 or 6 years that I've been. It sure beat anything New Mexico has. I fish hard in this state. You have too! From Plains Texas you should be 1 hour 24 minutes. ...Alan Henry is worse than bad..
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Re: New Mexico Bass Fishing
[Re: Cedar Chopper's Grandson]
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04/16/14 01:46 AM
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pil,b
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it  I thought they made a parking lot out of it when I saw all of the dump trucks headed up highway 287.
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Re: New Mexico Bass Fishing
[Re: Cedar Chopper's Grandson]
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04/16/14 01:47 AM
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pil,b
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I thought they made a parking lot out of it when I saw all of the dump trucks headed up highway 287.
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Re: New Mexico Bass Fishing
[Re: pil,b]
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04/16/14 01:53 AM
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fishnfireman
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I thought they made a parking lot out of it when I saw all of the dump trucks headed up highway 287.  They almost did last year...... I will say one thing for Ute ... To have been the only lake within several hundred miles with any water..to have had as much pressure as it has.. I was SUPRISED at the numbers of fish caught this week.. Not near as many zeroes as we had at Amistad..
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Re: New Mexico Bass Fishing
[Re: Cedar Chopper's Grandson]
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04/16/14 02:03 AM
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skeeter0984
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Ute fished very well this last weekend we had big bass of the tournament. We pulled into a cut for the last hour of the tournament and found 5 more blacks that made it look tiny on beds but couldt get any of them before weigh in
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Re: New Mexico Bass Fishing
[Re: bbexotics]
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04/16/14 02:06 AM
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Der Vorsteher
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Used to fish Elephant Butte,water is very low now,used to be great for largemouth and strippers,Conchas was also really good for wallaye and smallmouth,but now that lake is also super low.Its really sad... I thought the strippers were at Havasu?
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Re: New Mexico Bass Fishing
[Re: skeeter0984]
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04/16/14 02:13 AM
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fishnfireman
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Ute fished very well this last weekend we had big bass of the tournament. We pulled into a cut for the last hour of the tournament and found 5 more blacks that made it look tiny on beds but couldt get any of them before weigh in You did well  We were a little early.. Should be real good for the next 30 days.
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Re: New Mexico Bass Fishing
[Re: pil,b]
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04/16/14 05:22 PM
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karpbuster
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I would sell my boat and take up bird watching are watching paint dry if New Mexico lakes was all I had to fish. This is close to true. That is why I have a lake house on Rayburn, when I retire. But you got to scratch the itch. I get enough of it done in ABQ. But the real fishing is at Rayburn. I would think heading East would be better.
"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."
"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." � C.S. Lewis
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Re: New Mexico Bass Fishing
[Re: Cedar Chopper's Grandson]
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04/16/14 05:31 PM
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If I had a dollar for every bass over 4 lbs I've caught at Elephant Butte, I could probably buy a new bass boat today. That was 28 years ago, when the water was high, and the brush upstream from the "Catfish Camp" yielded lots of 6s and 7s on soft plastics and jigs with pork. Unfortunately, though, the last time I drove to The Butte from Dallas, all of my favorite spots were bone dry and full of snakes.
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PB: 10-01 on a Ribbit frog
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Re: New Mexico Bass Fishing
[Re: Phototex]
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04/16/14 08:59 PM
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fishnfireman
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Ute, Conchas, Navajo, the Butte .. They all have had there years to shine. All Conchas and the Butte need is more water.... Ute and Navajo still turn out a lot of numbers at the right time of the year.  Have caught a ton of fish from them over the last 20 years. One thing I always liked was having both smallmouth and largemouth... lot's of times if one species was not biting the other one was. Or the sandbass or the walleye.....Or when on Navajo the Northern pike and an occasional trout on a jerkbait..
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