Today was my final day of fishing. The final fish count was 164 plus the large Brown. Less then 301 I got 2 years ago. I enjoyed the fishing and Jean read a much of books.
Category: San Juan River
San Juan River – Cottonwood Campground – Saturday September 25, 2021
I also got a video of my large Brown.
San Juan River – Cottonwood Campground – Friday September 24, 2021
I have been catching a lot of fish in the 10 to 13 inch range. First part of this week I changed to a 3 weight rod and 7X tippet. 3 weight rods are smaller fish and 7X tippet is 2.6 lbs leader.
Today I got a large brown trout, 18 plus inches. With this light rod and tippet it took me an hour and 10 minutes to get this fish to the net.
After 50 minutes I was lucky enough to have another fisher person come by to take some pictures.
San Juan River – Cottonwood Campground – Sunday September 19, 2021
Today l went to the fly I used two years ago, black zebra midge in a variety of sizes, got 26 fish to the net.
San Juan River – Cottonwood Campground – Thursday September 16, 2021
Fishing has started out slow me. Working through the fly box.
San Juan River – Cottonwood Campground – Wednesday September 15, 2021
The drive San Juan River and Navajo Dam for two weeks of fly fishing and book reading. We are in the same we were in two years ago, site 5.
Cottonwood CG Navajo Dam, NM – Wednesday September 25, 2019
Moved to site 6 across the street, our reservations were for 14 nights and our time in site 5 is up. Somebody else has site 5 starting tonight. New Mexico parks have about 1/3 of their sites on no reservation status. Last week I asked the campground host if it would be alright if we stayed one additional night. She said it would be ok to stay another night.
This last picture is looking back at site 5.
If you have something that is messy or you don’t want water all over your site just go across the street and use the open site after people leave and before the next person gets there.
27 fish today
Got a fish on the first and second cast of the day
Fished from11:30 to 4:30
First half of the day was 10-12 inch trout mostly toward the 12 inch size, than got 4 small fish, than nothing.
I was using Zebra Midge size 18, went to a smaller 20 and 22 and started catching fish again, they are tough to hook with such a small fly and equally difficult to get all the way to the net.
Here is the summary of my epic fishing this year on the San Juan River.
Summary
9/12. Thursday: 25
9/13 Friday: morning 17 – afternoon 2
9/14 Saturday: 23
9/15 Sunday: morning 6 – afternoon 5
9/16 Monday: no fishing, new carburetor for the coach
9/17 Tuesday: 10
9/18 Wednesday: morning 13 – afternoon up stream to “Qualify Water” 1 to net and nice fish on
9/19 Thursday: morning 9
9/20 Friday: 19
9/21 Saturday: 33
9/22 Sunday: morning 35 – afternoon 26
9/23 Monday: morning 21 245 to date
9/24Tuesday: morning 13 – afternoon 16 in 10+ to 12 inch arrange, one 16 inch brown, 2 casts after this one a 14 inch brown
9/25 Wednesday: 27 on our last day
Total 301
Cottonwood CG Navajo Dam, NM – Tuesday September 24, 2019
13 morning fishing, all small.
During the afternoon I got 16 fish to the net, all the fish were in the 10+ to 12 inch arrange except for:
One 16 inch brown
Two casts later a 14 inch brown
Last fish about 3:30 quit at 4:00
Cottonwood CG Navajo Dam, NM – Monday September 23, 2019
21 this morning fished from 10:00 to 1:00, between 10:00 and 12:00 caught all the fish at about 12:00 everything stopped and I didn’t have a strike in the last hour.
Cottonwood CG Navajo Dam, NM – Sunday September 22, 2019
Today was the most amazing day of fishing. This is by far the most fish I have ever caught in one day.
35 morning
26 afternoon
Tied flies this evening I have used up all I had in my fly inventory.
Zebra Midge. Size 22, 20, 18 and 16