At long last, Trout Unlimited (TU) will be hosting its annual Western Regional Rendezvous in Taos this year. The event was originally scheduled for the

After a three-year, COVID-mandated hiatus, the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish will be returning to the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument to

We got a good, old-fashioned snow dump last night, the kind that could put your car in a ditch if you got too distracted by

Read that sentence out loud and close your eyes. What images come to mind? The fat guy in the red suit? Candy canes and biscochitos,

In New Mexico, it’s practically illegal to dislike acequias. They take us back to a time when things weren’t so complicated, when you knew your

Rio Costilla Beavers: Friend and FoeThe Rio Costilla has certainly had its share of water troubles in the past. Disputes have flared between towns, acequias,

When I ran a fly shop long ago, I’d look at fishing magazines and see myself in all the pictures. I hadn’t heard the term

With all the rain that’s fallen recently, it might be easy to forget that only a short while ago, we were all petrified at the

In the world of today—200,000 years into human evolution and a couple centuries into the Industrial Age—few living beings can embody the concept of pristine

Like most fly fishermen, I keep a mental list of my desert island flies, the bugs I must have in my box to ensure that

The beaver is what is known as a keystone species, an organism that can shape or define an ecosystem with its behavior and habits. There

After a corona virus-induced hiatus, the cherished Rio Grande cutthroat trout stocking event will return to the Questa area this April. That’s the great news.

In winter, when trout can get as slushy as the waters in which they swim, anglers go on believing there’s some secret to success. Just

I once wrote an article for a fishing magazine about a stream that at least one person thought should be kept a secret. This man