Fly Fishing the San Juan River

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Wanda Johnston. Fly Fishing the San Juan River

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San Juan River (Northwest New Mexico)

Location: Northwest corner of New Mexico, 1½ hours from Durango and Pagosa Springs, Colorado; 3 hours from Albuquerque; and 8 hours from Phoenix and Denver. Farmington, New Mexico is 30 miles; Aztec and Bloomfield, New Mexico are 18 miles.

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In 1958, construction of the Navajo Dam began. Upon its completion in 1962, the earth-filled dam was the largest of

its type in the world, built for flood and sediment control, recreation, and water for irrigation and industry. It also provides irrigation water for the 110,000 acres of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project (NIIP). With the completion of Navajo Dam, the once high-turbidity, warmwater river became the beginning of one of the finest trophy trout fisheries in the world.

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