tailwater · trout
Rio Chama (below Abiquiu)
Live conditions for Rio Chama (below Abiquiu): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
497cfs→ lowfishable
Inside the wade band, stable low · 0% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp—
Stage3.15 ft
Engine callGO 497 cfs in the wade band
The water
Rio Chama (below Abiquiu) is a tailwater below Abiquiu in New Mexico, fished for trout — brown, rainbow. On dam-controlled water the generation schedule is the whole story: the wade window is the no-generation block, and rising water at the gauge means the pulse is arriving.
troutbrown troutrainbow trout
Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.
Access
- Abiquiu Dam Tailrace / Rio Chama Day Use Areawalk in
- Abiquiu Dam Tailwater Accesswalk in
- Abiquiu Dam Tailrace Accesswalk in
- Riverside Pull-off (Upper Reach)walk in
- Rio Chama River-Road Pull-offs (below dam)walk in
- Rio Chama Canyon Riverside Pull-off (upper)walk in
- Riverside Pull-off (Middle Reach)walk in
- Barranca River Accesswalk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.