Elephant Butte Lake: Ray Padilla caught this catfish using carp and shad cut bait on Oct. 18. He had also caught a pair of blue catfish weighing 14 and 16 pounds earlier that morning at Caballo Lake.

Patrick Goldbogen, 9, of Santa Fe, won first place in the Nambe Lake Fall Fishing Derby on Oct. 25, reeling in an 18¾-inch, 3 ...

Fly fishing Amber Lake is open until Nov. 30 with a limit of one trout 18 inches or larger, and it should provide good fishing right to the end. Dark-colored wooly buggers are doing well. By late ...