Places I Would Rather Be
Today I found an unexpected hour in my day. My new hire of just three weeks told me that he feels comfortable taking a regular weekly meeting off my hands. He said he had it covered and that I didn’t need to attend.
I almost wept with utter relief. This is what I hired him to manage, but this progress is so much faster than I’d expected.
Hooray! Early Christmas gift to me!!
And so I could have used this found hour to do some other work or get caught up on email. Instead I decided to flake off.
Best and highest use of my time, in my humblest of opinions.
So I skated over to the Google News page to see what’s doing back home in New Mexico. That’s where I came across the Southern New Mexico fishing report.
Listed in today’s report are some of my favorite lakes in Southern New Mexico, and some of my favorite places to be in the whole world.
As I read down the list I sighed and wallowed like a lovesick schoolgirl.
Bill Evans? Oh have I had some amazing times night fishing there.
Caballo Lake? So pretty.
Elephant Butte? Always a fun time and a crazy amount of boats on that lake.
Quemado? That’s where I was supposed to go earlier this year and wasn’t able to. *cry*
Oh muh lord. Here I sit while the rain pours outside. I’m tapping away at my work computer and feeling low and definitely not putting a worm on a hook and sipping a beer and watching the clouds float by on a clear New Mexico day.
Uh oh, here it comes…waves of homesickness crashing on my shores.
In related news: The husband of my best friend works for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. He’s the guy in charge of Southern New Mexico fish. All of ’em. He has days at work that go something like “I put a boat in at Caballo, sent some shocks into the water, counted the stunned fish and then went home.”
Basically, the guy fishes for a living. And then writes a few reports.
It may be the greatest job in the world, or at least in the top ten.
*whimper*
In case you are near a beautiful New Mexico lake today and need to know if they are biting, here’s today’s report courtesy of the Silver City Sun News:
*Bear Canyon: Trout fishing was very good using homemade dough bait, Power Bait, salmon eggs and worms.
*Bill Evans Lake: Trout fishing was fair to good using garlic cheese, salmon eggs, Pistol Petes, Power Bait, and homemade dough bait. We had no reports on other species.
*Caballo Lake: All boat ramps have been closed and will remain closed until such time as water levels rise and is deemed safe for launching. Fishing pressure was extremely light this past week and we had no reports from anglers.
*Elephant Butte: Fishing was sporadic. A few white bass, crappie and black bass were caught by anglers using jig and minnow combinations and spoons. We had no reports on other species. The water was murky and the surface temp was in the low 50s.The Monticello, Dam Site and Rock Canyon boat ramps remain closed due to low water conditions.
*Escondida Lake: Trout fishing was fair using homemade dough bait, Power Bait, Pistol Petes under a bubble and corn salmon egg combinations. We had no reports on other species.
*Gila River: Water flow on the Gila as of this past Monday was 62 cfs. We had no reports from angles this week.
*Glenwood Pond: Trout fishing was good using Power Bait.
*Lake Roberts: Trout fishing was good using rainbow and red Power Bait, garlic cheese, homemade dough baits, salmon eggs and worms. We had no reports on other species.
*Percha Dam: The water was low and fishing was slow for all species.
*Quemado Lake: We had no reports from anglers this week.
*Rio Grande: Water flow below Elephant Butte as of Monday was 3.4 cfs. Trout fishing was fair using worms and Power Bait. We had no reports on other species.
*Snow Lake: We had no reports from anglers this week.
This is a New Mexico fish, but from way up north at Navajo Dam
Image from FunFix.com.
