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Lemos Creek is a public river in Taos County, New Mexico, managed by New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. You can fish it on a New Mexico fishing licence plus the Habitat Management & Access Validation. Special Trout Waters (Red / Green / Xmas Chile) carry their own tackle and bag-limit rules. Stream-access rules in New Mexico are contested — stick to public land, state Wildlife Areas and department access easements; check current signage. Public access confirmed via NMDGF fishery management plan water.
A northern New Mexico trout stream (the Pecos, the Rio Grande tributaries, the Cimarron, the Jemez system) — wild and stocked rainbow and brown trout and native Rio Grande cutthroat in cold Sangre-de-Cristo and Jemez Mountains water, several managed as Special Trout Water (Red / Green / Xmas Chile) with tackle and bag-limit restrictions.
It runs roughly 5 miles through the North Central New Mexico (Sangre de Cristo & Rio Grande) region. Anglers here mostly fish for cutthroat trout, rainbow trout. The nearest other mapped waters on PiscaMaps are Latir Creek and Midnight Creek.
Species from PiscaMaps water-type profiles, New Mexico Fish and Game trout-stocking records and hand research.
Night fishing: No statewide night-fishing closure in New Mexico; Special Trout Waters and some state-park lakes post their own seasonal and hourly rules — check the current New Mexico Fishing Rules and Information book.
Boats: New Mexico's big reservoirs (Elephant Butte, Navajo, Conchas, Ute, Cochiti, Heron, El Vado) take trailered boats via a state-park ramp (with a mandatory AIS inspection); small trout lakes are often electric-only and streams are wade access.
Bank & bivvy camping: New Mexico is roughly a third federal land -- dispersed camping is allowed on most BLM and Forest Service ground along these waters, plus developed state-park campgrounds on nearly every major reservoir.
Tackle: The statewide trout limit is generally 5; Special Trout Waters (Red / Green / Xmas Chile) carry their own reduced limits, artificial-only, single-barbless-hook or catch-and-release rules, and Gila trout water is often catch-and-release. Check the current NM Fishing Rules and Information book.
Anyone 12 or older needs a New Mexico fishing licence — the resident annual is about $25, the non-resident annual about $56, with 1-day (~$12) and 5-day (~$24) options. A Habitat Management & Access Validation (about $4) is also required, and a free Harvest Information Program (HIP) validation for migratory-bird-water anglers. New Mexico residents 70 and older, and anglers under 12, fish free. Buy from NMDGF at wildlife.dgf.nm.gov. A New Mexico fishing licence plus the Habitat Management & Access Validation covers this water — it carries a published NMDGF fishery management plan.
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