Jicarilla Fishing Blog

January 30th, 2025

Folks,

Just a quick update:

A few fishing reports were submited which is super cool. Fish between 14-23" were reported which seems pretty good to me. Jigs, cheese, wax worms, the normal stuff. Even a few catfish were caught which is neat, and they make great fish tacos.

Yesterday we got some snow which has made a bit of a mess with the roads, school was canceled regionally today. Some large pressure ridges at Mundo and Stone lake have popped up. Use extra high caution and avoid ridged areas.

January 27th, 2025

Folks,

Lots of ice anglers out and about, but no reports have been submitted from over the weekend. Last week there were dozens of 20 plus inch fish caught which is pretty neat, many of which were over 21". It would be cool if folks submitted reports with some photos, who knows maybe you'd win a prize.

Mundo: 8-9" of ice on the north west side of the lake, most snow has been blown off so it is very slick in spots. The south east corner of open water from last week has closed, but use extra caution.

Embom: 4-6" of ice lots of cloudy ice with many air pockets

Stone: 90% of the lake is frozen with open water moving about a little. Pressure ridges abound. 4-5".

January 21st, 2025

Folks,

Quite cold this morning, but really no precipitation.

Last week we still had open water at Mundo which is now capped but the recently closed area (east side and south corner) are probably very thin. Boat ramp area has 4-6" of ice, pretty variable especially as you head east on the sheet.

Stone as seen in last weeks reports is very variable large pressure ridges and some open water with a few of the unluckiest ducks around. Very sketchy 3-4".

Embom 1-2" of highly unstable weak ice, pressure ridges, air pockets and cloudy. All the things you do not want to walk on.

Ice fishing is very dangerous. All fishing on the Nation is use at your own risk.

January 13th, 2025

Folks,

Winter like weather this morning, but now it is 45 and sunny. Strange times. High wind last week really didn't help the ice sheets forming many large pressure ridges. See photo of Stone lake below from this morning. Still quite a large assortment of water fowl enjoying the open water. Hopefully the weather forecast is correct and colder temperatures are headed this way. Sadly it seems the greater region is suffering from sketchy non-fishable conditions.

We will update the blog as conditions change, but this morning things are not looking promising.

January 8th, 2025

Happy New Year,

Ice closed signs remain up. Open water at all lakes especially during afternoon warming, edges are very soft and pressure ridging throughout all sheets.

Hope you all had a great holiday season and are ready for the new year.

Fish Crew will keep you updated on conditions but it appears ice conditions are not improving this week.

December 30th, 2024

Folks,

For the fish blog entry update of 2024 I wish I had better news, but the ice still isn't anywhere near fishable yet. Photos are from this morning. Open water at all lakes and very poor ice sheet development all around. On a side note some ambitious person could hand launch a boat into Stone and probably do amazing things.

Happy New Year from the Fish Crew!

December 28th, 2024

Folks,

Just a quick update. no ice fishing yet. Bad Ice and open water everywhere still. The better half of the Fish Crew went out and took some photos to help you understand how poor the conditions are currently.

Happy New Year! We will update the blog as soon as new information is available

All photos are from this afternoon. Mundo, Stone, and then Embom:

December 17th, 2024

Quick update:

If anything we have lost a little bit of ice this week with the warm day time temperatures.

Coverage at all lakes is about 90% or so depending on the time of day.

Over the holiday the Fish Crew will update the ice reports weekly if not a little more frequently as we get closer to fishing season.

Hope all is well,

December 11th, 2024

Folks,

Some quick updates. This morning on the drive in the temperature was -1F. Which is cold, cold enough to leave a sheet of ice completely over Embom, 90% of Stone, and 90% of Mundo at 2:00 this afternoon.

The Fish Crew put out ice safety signs today. It is not ice fishing season, but open water season is done...(weather depending of course).

As always as we know things we will let you know them.

December 2nd, 2024

Folks,

No angler reports have been submitted. Fish Crew has seen many folks with stacks of 20 inch fish and one fish from Stone over 25". It's disappointing with the amount of anglers coming to visit that no one is submitting reports, we'll keep you updated on ice conditions and other tidbits. We know the fish are good. NO ICE FISHING AS OF YET, but...

Stone is 80% covered in sheet ice as of this morning, some thawing could occur if temperatures stay high. Embom is 100% covered in sheet ice. Mundo as of this morning (see below):

Hope you all had a great turkey day holiday.