Truchas Chapter Trout Unlimited

10/01/2026

Fly fishing films in Farmington, Saturday October 17.

New Mexico Trout Unlimited is hosting the New Mexico Fly Fishing Film Festival at the Totah Theater. Doors at 2:30, films from 3 to 5, and a raffle for some good gear.

Conservation, community, fishing.

Tickets are $15, kids 12 and under free, online or at the door: https://truchastu.org/event/new-mexico-fly-fishing-film-festival/

Presented by New Mexico Trout Unlimited, the City of Farmington, and the Farmington Civic Center.

If you are headed up that way, tell somebody and bring them along.

The New Mexico Fly Fishing Film Festival comes to Farmington for the first time! Trout Unlimited and the City of Farmington present a matinee showing of the best short films […]

09/30/2026

Eight of us spent a rainy Saturday standing in Chihuahueños Creek, pretending to be beavers.

On September 19, volunteers built beaver dam analogs on this remote Jemez headwater stream: boughs and green logs woven across the channel, then sealed with mud and sod. Water starts pooling within minutes. The result is slower flow, trapped sediment, a higher water table and cooler pools for the pure Rio Grande cutthroat that still live here. Maybe someday real beavers will take over the maintenance.

Thanks to New Mexico TU's Juliet Smith and Saba Ijadi for running the weekend (and the green chile stew).

Want in on the next one? Watch the calendars for Truchas Chapter and Trout Unlimited New Mexico for events and volunteer listings.

Read the whole article here: https://truchastu.org/beaver-dam-analogs-chihuahuenos-creek/

09/14/2026

Our first Women's Engagement casting clinic was a great morning at Fort Marcy Park in Santa Fe. Chapter casting instructors Eric Callow and Tanner Hall worked with 8 participants on a range of casting techniques, with one-on-one coaching for each.

Everyone left knowing what to work on next, and we wrapped up with lunch in the shade. Thank you, Eric and Tanner!

Read the recap:

09/14/2026

Pecos River Cleanup, Saturday, September 26. We're joining the Upper Pecos Watershed Association at Windy Bridge for a couple of hours clearing trash, and we could use a few more hands.

Windy Bridge Picnic Area, 1543 NM-63, Pecos Canyon
9 to 11 AM (meet at 9)
Bring work clothes, light gloves, and water. Supplies provided.

RSVP to Nick Tsapatsaris: [email protected]

Part of UPWA's Pecos to Pecos Road & River Cleanup, from Pecos, NM, to Pecos, TX. Stay on and fish afterwards.

09/05/2026

Trout Unlimited New Mexico needs volunteers in the north Jemez on September 19 and 20.

The job is repairing two exclosures on Chihuahueños Creek. An exclosure is fencing that keeps cattle off the streambanks so the willows and the creek can recover, and TU has been restoring this drainage and its native Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout for years. Fencing only works if somebody keeps it standing.

Saturday: caravan in, hike about two miles round trip to the exclosures, make the repairs, camp out. Sunday: shuttle to the top of the restoration work and walk four miles back down through the whole project. Getting to see an entire restoration top to bottom is rare, and it is the reason to go.

Go in with your eyes open. TU calls the site about a three-hour drive from Taos or Albuquerque, it is six miles of hiking over the two days, and you bring your own camping gear. All meals are on TU.

Space is limited and you have to pre-register. Details and registration: https://truchastu.org/event/exclosure-repair-restoration-tour-chihuahuenos-creek-jemez-mountains/

We return to Chihuahueños Creek in the fall for another round of exclosure maintenance — and this trip adds something special: a full restoration tour of TU’s work in the […]

08/31/2026

The state's Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout biologist is coming to our September board meeting.

Bryan Ferguson of the New Mexico Department of Wildlife joins us Wednesday, September 9 at Hervé W**e Bar in Santa Fe. He is covering where Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout stand statewide, the cutthroat populations of the Pecos watershed, the Pecos restoration projects underway right now, and the Pecos strain broodstock.

That Pecos half is why the date is fixed. Our chapter is making the case to Trout Unlimited National that the Upper Pecos should be recognized as a priority water in New Mexico, and this is the science behind it.

Social hour at 5:00, Bryan speaks 5:30 to 6:00, board meeting at 6:00. Free, and open to chapter members and their guests. The upstairs room only holds so many, so please RSVP by Saturday, September 5.

RSVP on the event page: https://truchastu.org/event/social-hour-board-meeting-all-members-welcome-3-2/

Bryan Ferguson, Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout Biologist with the New Mexico Department of Wildlife, speaks at our September board meeting. Wednesday, September 9 at Hervé W**e Bar. Social hour 5:00, talk 5:30 to 6:00. Members and their guests.

08/31/2026

08/30/2026

Monte del Sol Charter School has been pairing Santa Fe high school students with mentors from around town since 2000. Students pick a field they want to go deep on, and someone who has spent a lifetime doing it takes them through a school year of it. Recent mentorships have covered welding, orthodontics, aviation, drone photography, hip hop dance and bioinformatics.

Fly angling would be new.

Our board has signed the chapter on, and we are looking for chapter members willing to teach one student to fly fish. Two hours a week, outside school hours, September through spring. Matching happens in September and October.

If you are interested, email Eric Callow at [email protected]. He will answer what he can and introduce you to Giselle Piburn, the Mentorship Program Director at Monte del Sol.

More on the program: https://truchastu.org/monte-del-sol-mentorship-program/

The Truchas Chapter is looking for members to mentor a Monte del Sol high school student in Santa Fe in fly angling and conservation this school year.

08/21/2026

Hundreds of members, and most of us know maybe a dozen of each other by name.

The picnic is the fix for that. On September 5 you will meet the people who put Trout in the Classroom into 16 schools this year, the volunteers who run our casting sessions at Magers Field, and the folks who show up for the Upper Pecos cleanup because somebody has to. The Truchas Chapter is almost 400 members strong, and none of the work happens without the person standing next to you at the grill.

Your ticket and the auction table both feed the same thing: conservation and community work for northern New Mexico's cold water, from the Santa Fe River to the Pecos Wilderness, and for the Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout that depends on it.

Saturday, September 5, noon to 4:00 p.m., Eldorado Community Center. $20 per person, $30 per family.

Tickets: https://truchastu.org/event/truchas-chapter-end-of-summer-bbq-picnic/

Hello Truchas TU Members, End of Summer Truchas Chapter of TU BBQ, Eldorado, Saturday, 9/5/2026, 12-4pm – 1 Hacienda Loop, Santa Fe, NM 87508 In addition to the BBQ, we’ll […]