Fishing is good using shrimp, stink bait and cut bait for catfish. Fishing for crappie is slow. Gila River Fishing on the forks is good using spinners, bead head nymphs and salmon eggs for stocked trout. A few smallmouth bass are being taken on worms and wet flies. Lake Roberts Fishing is good using power bait, salmon eggs, worms, bead head woolly buggers and spinners for trout.
Fishing is fair using worms, stink bait and liver for catfish.
No reports on other species. Rio Grande Water flow below Elephant Butte is 1,770 cfs. A few trout are being taken on spinners. No reports on other species. Below Caballo, fishing is slow.