Jicarilla Fishing Blog

January 8th, 2025

Happy New Year,

Ice closed signs remain up. Open water at all lakes especially during afternoon warming, edges are very soft and pressure ridging throughout all sheets.

Hope you all had a great holiday season and are ready for the new year.

Fish Crew will keep you updated on conditions but it appears ice conditions are not improving this week.

December 30th, 2024

Folks,

For the fish blog entry update of 2024 I wish I had better news, but the ice still isn't anywhere near fishable yet. Photos are from this morning. Open water at all lakes and very poor ice sheet development all around. On a side note some ambitious person could hand launch a boat into Stone and probably do amazing things.

Happy New Year from the Fish Crew!

December 28th, 2024

Folks,

Just a quick update. no ice fishing yet. Bad Ice and open water everywhere still. The better half of the Fish Crew went out and took some photos to help you understand how poor the conditions are currently.

Happy New Year! We will update the blog as soon as new information is available

All photos are from this afternoon. Mundo, Stone, and then Embom:

December 17th, 2024

Quick update:

If anything we have lost a little bit of ice this week with the warm day time temperatures.

Coverage at all lakes is about 90% or so depending on the time of day.

Over the holiday the Fish Crew will update the ice reports weekly if not a little more frequently as we get closer to fishing season.

Hope all is well,

December 11th, 2024

Folks,

Some quick updates. This morning on the drive in the temperature was -1F. Which is cold, cold enough to leave a sheet of ice completely over Embom, 90% of Stone, and 90% of Mundo at 2:00 this afternoon.

The Fish Crew put out ice safety signs today. It is not ice fishing season, but open water season is done...(weather depending of course).

As always as we know things we will let you know them.

December 2nd, 2024

Folks,

No angler reports have been submitted. Fish Crew has seen many folks with stacks of 20 inch fish and one fish from Stone over 25". It's disappointing with the amount of anglers coming to visit that no one is submitting reports, we'll keep you updated on ice conditions and other tidbits. We know the fish are good. NO ICE FISHING AS OF YET, but...

Stone is 80% covered in sheet ice as of this morning, some thawing could occur if temperatures stay high. Embom is 100% covered in sheet ice. Mundo as of this morning (see below):

Hope you all had a great turkey day holiday.

November 20th, 2024

Folks,

Quick updates:

Very cold and windy. This morning on the drive to work it was 5 degrees.

Thin sheet of ice especially around the edges of the lake possible, as winter sets in. No it isn't ice fishing season, but expect the potential for icing to increase daily...

Our lucky prize winner for the best fishing report won a $100.00 gift card to our friends at Los Pinos Fly and Tackle. The anglers report indicated their catch, the conditions at the lake, count of fisherman at the lake and other useful information. It also included a perspective and comment about his three decades fishing our ponds which is always neat to hear. Light competition very few anglers have been submitting reports...

Silly no one has been fishing Stone.

Over the weekend one angler noted slow fishing, but according to the angler "Managed 2 fish to the net, both were huge. Each fish was well over 20”. (photo below)

November 15th, 2024

Folks,

The weather has been a mixed bag, but night time temperatures are getting into the low teens pretty regularly. Some end of season updates include the following:

-Docks at Mundo have been put up for the season

-Construction activities continue at Mundo, expect heavy truck traffic and equipment for the next few weeks. Campground remains closed.

-Embom gate will be locked when road conditions indicate, most likely in the next few weeks.

-Easy limits from shore anglers using all manner of techniques

-One angler indicated this is the most 21-23" trout he has ever hooked in a single season at Mundo. One day he said he landed three or four and lost a half dozen or so more than 21".

November 4th, 2024

Quite the winterwonder land today! Let it snow until May '25.

At least ten boats on Saturday and only one report...So that person gets a sweet prize. Best Fishing report submitted (as judged by The Fish Crew) in the next two weeks wins a prize. E-mail reports to jicarillafishqs@gmail.com

The roads are all going to be wet and muddy. Please be kind to them, we can spend our time doing fisheries work or repairing roads.

I would imagine Enbom is fishing slow. Stone should be amazing fishing but very low, quite a few bald eagles soaring around it this morning in the snow. A hand launch-able boat is probably needed. But a fly and bubble angler was getting bites from shore last week.

Go fishing.

October 30th, 2024

Folks,

Easy limits as usual. Rain and snow flurries today, which is cool but beware of the mud.

Camping area at Mundo remains under renovation.

One report indicated many fish at Mundo between 10-15" with multiple "really, really nice size fish". Not sure exactly what that means in inches, but I'm guessing 23" or thereabouts. One angler from way down south told me yesterday that a few months ago the fishing wasn't great with only a few 20" plus fish caught near dark, but that isn't crazy helpful. There are more 20" plus fish here than anywhere in the state, and even a blind squirrel...

Submit the best report (as judged by The Fish Crew) in the next three weeks and win a prize. Ask anyone, we give nice prizes. E-mail reports to jicarillafishqs@gmail.com.

If you'd like to fish this year's remaining open water season it's kind of right now.

Best of luck wherever you go.