Rio Chama

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Rio Chama Below El Vado Dam, NM, 9 mi from the river.

1,010cfsat build, Nov 12, 11 AM MT

The typical week here, from 10 years of record: 102 cfs to 198 cfs, around 110 cfs.

Also gauged at Rio Chama Above Abiquiu Reservoir, NM: 1,070 cfs, Nov 12.

Snowpack

0.6 in of water in the snow at Bateman and 2 more stations, against a median 0.5 in for the date (113 % of normal).

The snowpack here usually builds from Nov 3, peaks Mar 23 and is gone by May 3; runoff follows the melt.

The season, November

Usually workable this week. Pick your window and fish it well.

• Midgessizes 18 to 22
• Small eggs and worms
• Pheasant tail and zebra midge nymphsunder an indicator

Typical for the week over 10 years: 102 to 198 cfs. Running 1,010 cfs today, above that range. Flows are not forecast; check the gauge the day before.

Brown Trout are spawning (October to December). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.

Brook Trout are spawning (September to November). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.

Mountain Whitefish are spawning (October to December). The egg bite behind spawning whitefish is the best winter nymphing of the year: an egg pattern below the riffles.

• Egg patterns in the runs below the spawning gravel, never on it.

Written by the app's rules engine from the calendar, the gauge record and the snowpack, not by hand, so it says only what the data says. The weather for the week comes with the app.

Fly shops on this water

• High Desert Angler Santa FeWebsiteFishing report
• The Reel Life Santa FeWebsite

Nearby waters

• Rio Grande47 mi

Every New Mexico water