Trout fishing is excellent on New Mexico's San Juan River. In fact, excellent is an understatement. We didn’t arrive early and still caught and released nearly 75 rainbows within a few hours while filming this episode of Pautzke Outdoors. Mind you, there were only two anglers fishing. Our course, being a bait company we stayed out of the special regulations section, opting to fish FireCorn and Balls O Fire salmon eggs near the town of Navajo Dam instead. We only fished a 100-yard section of river known as The Pumphouse and caught or hooked fish on more than 75 percent of our casts. That’s no exaggeration. Keep in mind, none of us had ever fished this river before as we were in town to film Pautzke Outdoors. (One of us fished the fly only section once, but not the bait section.) We simply walked into Abe’s Motel & Fly Shop, grabbed a map to make sure we avoided the fly section and went fishing. It was no secret what the trout wanted and fortunately we had a truck full of it. We started out with Gold Label and Silver Label salmon eggs fished under a Beau Mac Torpedo Float on four-pound Stren low-vis green. The eggs were fished on two different hooks: a Danielson 1/64 Micro Jig Head and Gamakatsu No. 12 Mesh Bait Holder. Even though the water isn’t gin clear you’ll do far better if line is kept to four-pound and smaller. Subscribe to join Team Pautzke! To Learn More About Pautzke Bait: http://www.pautzke.com Become a fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pautzkebait

San Juan River (River)River (Geographical Feature Category)Fishing (TV Genre)Chris ShafferDuane InglinPautzkeSan Juan River trouttroutfishingFireCornSilver LabelGold LabelNew Mexico (US State)bait fishing