New Mexico Trout?

[Tabasco-Joe]

I'll be spending three weeks next fall in the Taos, Santa Fe, Albuquerque area.
Valle Vidal is on my list but I'm looking for suggestions on additional streams.
The Pecos seems to be worth consideration.
Any others?

 

[Broodstock]

Rio Chama has several dams with tailwaters below. I’ve never been there, but I’ve read about them. It’s an interesting river.

 

[GoldenRfly]

I'll be spending three weeks next fall in the Taos, Santa Fe, Albuquerque area.
Valle Vidal is on my list but I'm looking for suggestions on additional streams.
The Pecos seems to be worth consideration.
Any others?

My cousin spends a lot of time in Santa Fe. He’s retired and spends weeks at a time visiting his parents who settled there. He helps them a lot, but also does a lot of successful fly fishing on The Pecos.

I’ll message him about any other suggestions.

 

[dryflyguy]

I once spent a week on the San Juan River
Pretty interesting place
Large, cold trout stream surrounded by desert

 

[Tiogadog]

We spent several days in New Mexico in 2019. We camped at the Rio Santa Barbara campground and fished the stream of the same name. That stream mostly featured brown trout that were willing to eat attractor dries. We did go the Valle Vidal for what was supposed to be two nights but blew two tires (one vehicle, one on the camper) and cut it short. We did catch Rio Grande cutts there. The Valle Vidal streams were purposely poisoned as few years back to kill off invasives.

From Taos, you are not too far away from the Conejos River valley in Colorado. The Conejos River is worth a trip if you can make it.

I hope you like to eat because New Mexican food is delicious. Michael's and Garcia's in Taos are both great and the Dutch Mill in Antonito, CO is fantastic.