Anyone familiar with the Cimarron River in NM?

[thinhorn_AK]

Ever been to the upper San Juan? All stockers as far as rainbows and all barbless 2 hooks per line and catch and release.

Handful of browns but the amount of Rainbows in that quality water stretch is absurd!

It’s a fun place to fish when you avoid the crowds, but I prefer backcountry wild fish.


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I havnt been there in 20+ years. I went with my dad for his birthday one year, we caught some giant rainbows there. If I remember right you could keep 1 but if you did, you had to stop fishing for the day.

 

[sndmn11]

Nope. The planted rainbows I’m talking about that they are stocking now are sterile.

Which hatchery are the pulling from?

 

[displacedtexan]

There are millions of miles of self sustaining wild trout water that don’t need stocked trout to meet that objective.

Look, I’m not against stocked trout in certain places. I just don’t understand putting them in places to compete with wild trout and in stretches of water where they can’t even be kept. A lot of them die after being caught anyways, they can’t handle any stress. Put the planters in the lakes by the tourist areas and campgrounds and such. Leave the C&R water for wild trout to prosper.

The stretch you fished is a tourist place...

 

[SDHNTR]

The stretch you fished is a tourist place...

Read my last sentence.

 

[SDHNTR]

Which hatchery are the pulling from?

Red River. Noted specifically as triploid rainbow trout. Sterile fish.

 

[dieselchessy]

I dont think the term “wild” as its being used in this thread is accurate. Brown trout in the US aren’t wild, they are “feral”. They originate from domestic hatchery stock.

 

[displacedtexan]

Read my last sentence.

Read the sentence before it.

Tourists fish rivers too.

I fish that region, never that river. Way too many tourists. Even the red chili water.

 

[displacedtexan]

Your "wild trout" started off as stocked fish. The fish are stocked, they reproduce, eventually someone down the road calls them "wild". Step 1 now is the same as it was last year, last decade, and last century.

I love how people call brown trout and pheasants wild, but pigs and horses feral.