The Department will participate at the NWTF Women in the Outdoors Event (WITO) in Cloudcroft, NM. Department staff will be assisting with fishing, turkey calling/hunting and turkey life history presentations.
Registration Details:
Please contact Helen Butt.
These workshops and fishing clinic are for the third-grade students of Jose Public School in Silver City. The workshops will consist of fishing safety, knots, equipment, casting and fish identification. We will be fishing at Bill Evans Lake.
N/A. Closed to the public.
An interactive class will be held for NMWF Interns that provides a high-level overview of angling essentials. This session will be tailored to the interns so that they’ll be able to use knowledge gained to facilitate future fishing days with their respective groups. The class will cover topics such as fish species/anatomy, habitat, diet, understanding fishing gear, tying knots, safety and so on. The participants will be gauged and quizzed throughout the session to ensure they’re retaining the content. This will include hands-on practice casting, rod and reel assembly, and barb pinching.
Registration Details:
There was no registration for this session. NMWF Nature Niños reached out to retain assistance from NMDGF – Aquatic Educator, Contractor, Matty Gonzales.
The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish will be fly fishing with youth at Tingley Beach in Albuquerque in conjunction with the Big Brothers Big Sisters program of Central New Mexico and Fly Fish New Mexico.
Registration Details:
This event is closed to the public.
This fishing clinic School Kids. The fishing clinic will consist of fishing safety, knots, equipment, casting and fish identification. Students and Department staff will be fishing. This event is closed to the public.
Department staff will teach a lesson to a class that is participating in the Trout in the Classroom program. The lessons will be about New Mexico fishing, how to cast and land a fish and identifying different game fish in New Mexico. This event is closed to the public.
This fishing clinic is for the city of Las Cruces, sponsored by the Kiwanis. The fishing clinic will consist of fishing safety, knots, equipment, casting and fish identification. Participants and Department staff will be fishing at Young Park in Las Cruces.