Along the San Juan River, fishing for rainbow trout in the quality waters was good when using size-22 red annelid flies, hand-tied flies, pinched crawlers, and worms.
A 2023 graduate of Artesia High School, Chavez focused on football, baseball, track and field, and even bowling during his high school years, leaving little time or motivation for his uncle’s favorite sport. But this summer all that changed.
The New Mexico Desert Dogs, a Las Cruces-based “hunting and community outreach nonprofit,” aims to help children, first responders and active and retired military members by sponsoring fishing, hunting and community events at parks around the state, according to the organization’s chief executive officer Tony Torrez.