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ziacatcher
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Location: The Bluff
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 Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 5:27 pm Post subject: 85 consecutive days without precipitation |
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With that many days without precipitation and temperatures in the upper forties lower 50s makes for standing in the middle of the Rio Grande trying to catch trout pretty awesome.
Was able to catch and release a limit of these rainbows today.
However can't do any fun snow stuff. My grandson and his girlfriend came in from Corpus to ski and inner tube and unfortunately we're not able to do any of it. A lot of the snow activities around Northern New Mexico have been cancelled due to lack of snow. Normally this time of year that the snow is measured in feet instead of centimeters. |
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shallowsport
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Location: Flour Bluff/Kingsville
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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Finally, something is not perfect in NM. All and all it still sounds like a great place. By the way you cast a great shadow!
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bulldog1935
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Joined: 07 Feb 2017
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Location: downtown Bulverde, Texas
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| bent rod, seeing into the water - very cool photo |
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SeanHHH
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Location: San Antonio
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Zia, those stocker rainbows, keep 'em and pan fry 'em!
You probably had warmer temps up there today than we did here in the Bluff.
Keep posting this pics! |
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bulldog1935
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Location: downtown Bulverde, Texas
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| SeanHHH wrote: | Hey Zia, those stocker rainbows, keep 'em and pan fry 'em!
You probably had warmer temps up there today than we did here in the Bluff.
Keep posting this pics! |
we've covered this before
| bulldog1935 wrote: | ...if you paper the little trout out flat, they're amazing. Gut and scrape their kidneys, remove their heads, slide your knife down their spine cutting the ribs at the spine on both sides, and continue along their spine all the way to their tail, and cut out the spine at the tail. Open them up like a piece of paper, and saute in browning butter - no more than 2 min each side. You'll be able to lift out the ribs with your fork, and of course the skin has all the vitamin A.
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NM has a big push to restore the native Rio Grande cutthroat wherever possible. In creeks that have been picked as viable (natural barriers to protect from stocked rainbows moving upstream) they have used piscicides to clean the creek runs out and start over with natives. GRTU has a program to provide grants to smaller TU chapters with rolling rocks projects, and has awarded one to Truchas chapter in the past (though not stated, it was actually for buying the piscicides to kill the non-native rainbows). So don't feel bad about eating legal rainbows in NM. |
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ziacatcher
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Location: The Bluff
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 7:55 am Post subject: |
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| I don't feel bad about eating these fish. I'll keep them occasionally and Fry em up whole until nice and crispy. Good eating. I'm just more into catch and release. And there was an article in a magazine I was reading yesterday about the reintroduction of the Native Cutthroats to various streams around the state. Pretty neat stuff |
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bulldog1935
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Location: downtown Bulverde, Texas
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McKittrick canyon in Guadalupe Mountains NP (Texas) has a wild population of rainbows. It used to be native Rio Grande cutthroat, but in the 1920s, a surplus load of rainbows was dumped in there.
There is a current study going of restoring the native Rio Grande cutthroats here (GRTU is funding part of this).
Even the Texas hill country used to have native Rio Grande cutthroat trout.
They were documented by French and Spanish explorers, who independently identified both trout and bass in the rivers. Warming climate and one of our droughts finally did them in.
Guadalupe headwater springs in Kerr WMA
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