A while back we fished the Rio Santa Barbara in the East Pecos Wilderness. You can get a good idea of the terrain from the video in my previous post. I am glad I got that footage up because it might be all we have as I await the diagnoses of my damaged Macbook. It got a little bath yesterday and the M/B does not look good. Hopefully I will be able to salvage the data off the HD.

We will see.

The beauty of the Rio Santa Barbara is threefold.  1) It is not heavily fished if you are willing to hike a few miles. 2) It is clean. If you knew the “Pecos” side of the Pecos Wilderness you would understand. 3) It is truly a unique area as you can easily imagine you are in a deep deep evergreen forest somewhere in Colorado. New Mexico continues to surprise and inspire me. I have only explored a fraction of Northern NM and I still tell anyone I talk to how much this place has to offer.

The Rio Santa Barbara is one place I will get back to before Old Man Winter cuts me off…

12" Brown, caught on the West Fork of the Rio Santa Barbara