Anglers are now restricted to the use of just two flies while fishing in the quality waters of New Mexico's trophy class, blue ribbon trout stream, the San Juan River.State Game Commissioners adopted the new rule at a May 29, 2008 meeting at San Juan College in Farmington, NM.
“We’re thrilled,” said Larry Johnson of the San Juan Guides Association and owner of the Soaring Eagle Lodge. “Anything we can do to protect the economic impact of the river is important”
Commissioners voted unanimously to adopt the new rule limiting anglers fishing in the upper four miles of the San Juan River just below Navajo Dam to the use of two flies.
Advocates for the rule change hope it will limit the number of trout inadvertently injured or killed from foul hooking by multiple hooks and entrapment in broken off lines.
Previously there was no rule limiting the number of flies an angler could use on the quality waters of the San Juan River where an estimated 70,000 trout, averaging 18-inches in length reside.
The San Guides Association in seeking the rule claimed some guides were arming clients with multiple fly rigs in order to improve their catch rate at the expense of the trout.
The association’s members reported increased sightings of injured and dead fish that they and their clients found repulsive and unsportsmen like.
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