Red River
The rule for this water, with the receipt.
Special regulations for Red River from its confluence with Goose Creek 1.1 miles upstream to the Carson National Forest boundary, as the state words them
Taos County · River · NM
The rules for this water, verbatimOfficial text
Straight from NM's official regulations. Rules in force today lead; out-of-season rows are dimmed. Nothing is paraphrased. Not legal advice: verify the posted rules at the water.
- TroutGear Special Trout Water.
Statewide base layerParsed
These defaults apply where the rules above do not modify them.
- Season
- Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
- Gear
- Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
- Bait
- Possession of and use of any baitfish while fishing is illegal, except as defined below.Statewide
- Poles
- Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
Where the verbatim rules above name a species, season, or limit, they replace the rows below. Each row is tagged with the layer it comes from.
| Species | Daily limit | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|
Lake trout | 2 per day - 4 in possession | - | Statewide |
Cutthroat trout | 2 per day - 4 in possession | - | Statewide |
Kokanee trout | 12 per Day - 24 in Posession | - | Statewide |
trout | two (2) trout only | - | Statewide |
Black Bass (largemouth and spotted) | 5 per day | min. 14-inch minimum size limit | Statewide |
Crappie | 20 per day | - | Statewide |
Striped Bass | 1 per day | - | Statewide |
Northern Pike | 10 per day | - | Statewide |
Walleye | 5 per day | - | Statewide |
Yellow Perch | 30 per day | - | Statewide |
How this answer was assembled
- StatewideStatewide river rules are the base layer: default season, gear, bait, and limits.
- This waterSpecial rules written for this exact water replace the statewide defaults where they speak.
- Emergency orderEmergency orders in effect today override everything else. They sync quietly when the phone has coverage and never lock you out of the app.
Where this stretch begins and ends
The drawn shape is the named water, matched from the official list against OpenStreetMap and accepted only because the name resolved to a single feature in this water's county.
Different sections of this water can have different rules. The exact section boundaries are not marked on the map yet; each rule above describes in plain words where it starts and ends, and that written description is the authoritative boundary. Map boundaries come water by water, never as a guess.
At the water nowContext
Streamflow: 16.4 cfs at red river near questa, nm (2026-07-29 03:00)
Forecast: National Weather Service. Flow: nearest active USGS gauge in this water's area, which may sit on a different reach. Conditions are context, not rules.
What are you fishing for here?Advice
Pick from the species named in Red River's rules. Setups are checked against the gear rules in force today, and your picks are remembered on this device only. These are rule-aware suggestions, not a claim about what is biting; advice, not law, and the rules above govern.
Receipts
Local services near Red River
Tackle shops, guides, and boat launches that serve this water will appear here - a separate lane below the rules, so a local business can reach you without ever getting between you and the regulation.
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