Fishing in Albuquerque
New Mexico · Deserts & Dry Basins · hardiness zone 7b
Now
19°C · Rain
Today
32° / 18°
Sun
06:48 – 19:14
Moon
Waxing Crescent · solunar good
Run-off colours the water and brings food in. Fish the inflows and the seams.
- Bluegillbest now — On the beds and the shallow flats, in water warm enough to see the bottom.
- Largemouth bass — Cruising the weed edges, pads and shallow flats, ambushing anything that moves across the top.
In the water now · September
What's biting
The sport fish active near Albuquerque, New Mexico in September — where they hold, how to know one on the line, and the tactic that usually works. Check your licence and the current limits before you go.
FishApr–OctLargemouth bass
Micropterus salmoides
Green with a dark lateral stripe, and an upper jaw that extends past the back of the eye.
Where and how to catch it →Photo: Nick Tobler (Cowturtle) · CC BY 4.0
Writing your field guide — reading the forecast, the moon and the map…
Overhead · Albuquerque, New Mexico
The sky over the water
The two clocks nothing on the ground can argue with: the length of the day, and the phase of the moon.
The sun
12h 25m of light
Sunrise
06:49
Solar noon
13:01
Sunset
19:14
A month from now the day will be 1h 06m shorter. Enough light for steady growth.
Right now · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Forces at work
Nothing here is a guess. Each of these is read from this week's forecast and this location's climate record, and each one is pushing the season one way or the other.
- Worth watching
The moon
Waxing Crescent · 11%
Waxing, 3 days old. Full moon in 11 days. Fishing outlook: good.
It moves water — in the sea, in a lake's edge, and, by long tradition, in the sap of a plant. Fish feed hardest on the days around new and full.
- Working for you
Wind
18 km/h now · 28 peak
A working breeze: it ripples the surface, drifts a boat at a fishable speed, and stacks bait on the windward shore. Anglers call it a walleye chop.
It pollinates corn and grasses, dries soil, breaks stems — and it decides where the bait, and therefore the fish, end up.
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