Fishing near South Valley, New Mexico

South Valley is a Bernalillo County town, on the New Mexico side. Everything worth a rod sits outside the town line. In the order you would reach them: Rio Grande (5.2 miles) to the north followed by Jemez Canyon Reservoir (27 miles). Rio Grande changes character between one tide and the next. No lid forms at any point. Cool nights in the off season lift the fishing. Tide moves through more than one of them. Depth change matters more than ground covered. Weekends fill the closest places first. Several are small enough to walk round in an hour. There is enough water within reach to fish somewhere new each week. Ring ahead where the bank is held privately. A short drive changes the water type completely. Rio Grande is the closest thing South Valley has to a home water....