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Topic: Elkhorn Slough Reserve  (Read 5712 times)

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Seabreeze

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I got this note from a DFG person.  Nice to get a clarification as the map you can hunt down on the DFG site shows a very different limit.
.......the Elkhorn Slough Ecological Reserve is closed to fishing. Practically speaking, that would be all the Slough water EAST of the railroad tracks (our boundary goes a little east of the tracks, but it is not signed or enforceable so we think of the track as the boundary for users). So, if you are in a boat on the west (main channel) side of the tracks or on the dock at Kirby Park, you can fish all you want. The entire main channel is open to fishing..........
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Does "this note" refer to some icon I should click to see the note?  From my map, it looks like there isn't much of the slough that is east of the tracks, maybe the end of a couple of arms, so I gather that as long as I don't pass any tracks from west to east I'm legal?   Do you know offhand it there are any species/tackle restrictions specific to the slough?  Thanks


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The material in quotes was what I received describing the Elkhorn Slough reserve.

I posted the note because on the DFG site the reference the ES Reserve and their map reference did not make sense.

There are a couple of special references to the slough in the DFG reg's but I don't have them handy.

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Thanks, that helps.
 I recall reading something in the back of the reg book about some kind of shark being o.k. to take in there.  I assumed that by including that species they meant to exclude others.  I know they do a lot of research there and I assumed I couldn't fish east of Hwy 1, but it did look like a place to do some relaxed fishing.  I'm putting it on my list to research the chapter and verse of the laws/regs - if and when I do, I'll post it and laminate a copy to keep on the yak (and maybe give to the judge!).
 I think I'll also want to check to see what kind of pollution runoff it collects so's to know whether to eat anything I catch.  I'm pretty sure it couldn't be worse than the Bay/Delta, but I won't eat things that spend time in that water either.


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Fishing east of Hwy 1 is allowed.  Basically the entire slough, from Kirby to the ocean is okay.  The tracks are wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy back in the slough.

Leopard sharks are legal in the slough.  I don't know about others.

Pat
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