New Mexico Fishing

Travel time again................Glenn usually wants to go fishing somewhere in the spring and he'd been looking at this lake in New Mexico for a long time!  So with the 5th wheel packed for the summer and the boat trailing behind, we left on a Thursday morning at the crack of dawn!

Breakfast was at Arby's in Raton - we discovered this place a couple years ago as they have a huge parking lot in the back so it's easy to pull in there - AND they have a great breakfast which we like so  much better than other fast food places!!  Guess what bush was right there by the drive through!!
I decided if I put it in the vent, I'd have that wonderful scent all the way to Lake Conchas!

We finally arrived and it was hot - very hot!! There were 2 campgrounds almost side by side but the majority of the camp sites were "reservation only" and since Glenn didn't think there would be hardly anybody camped there, we didn't make them - BIG MISTAKE!!  Both places were packed!!  And we needed electric because of the heat!!

We found the camp host and asked about the "reserved sites" (which you can only stay for one night if it's open) and she told us there was ONE regular spot left so we better take it fast before it got taken  - which is what we did!!  The site was kind of down from the top row so no phone service at all unless you walked up to the other campground and then it was kind of spotty!!

Here's the lake.

And here's our spot - lower row.  At least we had a tree which was nice but it was so darn hot out that the a/c ran all day!!  Temps were in the high 90's!!

Glenn fished in the afternoon that we arrived and all day the next day but to no avail - lots of snags in the lake and he wasn't impressed at all!  So cross Lake Conchas off the list - been there and don't have to go back!!

Saturday morning we decided to head out and go back to Pueblo!  Because it was a weekend, again the campgrounds were packed AND full for the electric.  We had to pull into the non-electric campground for the night and as we pulled into the spot, I saw a tent right up on the ridge (a walk-in tent spot) and I jokingly said to Glenn, there's the party spot!!  Sure enough, teenagers pulled into park and walked up there that evening!!  They weren't super loud but enough that it woke me up once during the night!!

I knew that on Sunday a lot of the campers would leave and when Glenn came back from his morning fishing, we moved the camper over to a great spot by the lake!!  I was MUCH happier there and enjoyed walking around the campground and doing a lot of reading!

There was an awesome sunset that night!

Surprisingly it wasn't hot there - a cool front had set in and the temps were in the 70's so very manageable!  Glenn caught several walleye so was happy about that and we enjoyed our time there!!

I think Glenn has realized that our own backyard has better fishing than other states - he sure didn't catch much in Ks., had a real "bust" in Neb., and now this place in N. Mexico didn't meet his standards!!  Pueblo Reservoir and Aurora Reservoir usually come through!!