Tahoe Friday HKUP

Heading to Tahoe on Friday the 18.  Anyone in town?

Wish I could make it up there with you Andrew. Some day !   

Good luck and look forward to the report.

Alex

I've been planning on going this Friday for awhile. Where are you launching at? I was debating between cave rock and trolling for Browns or Richardson and targeting macks.

I've been planning on going this Friday for awhile. Where are you launching at? I was debating between cave rock and trolling for Browns or Richardson and targeting macks.

I'm doing the Richardson/Mac hunt on Friday morning. Might move around in the afternoon/evening.

Been searching the internet for a while for more information. Will Lake Trout hit a mooched anchovy?

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Been searching the internet for a while for more information. Will Lake Trout hit a mooched anchovy?

I can speak for the rats at least.  I picked up a few rat-macks mooching an anchovy at Bucks last spring.  I imagine the bigger ones would eat them too.

my buddies used to hammer with anchovies years ago, off their canoes

Too bad it is illegal to use anchovies in Tahoe

Too bad it is illegal to use anchovies in Tahoe

4.30. BAIT FISH USE IN THE SIERRA AND NORTH COAST DISTRICTS.
Except as provided below, live or dead Finfish shall not be used or possessed for use as bait in the Sierra and North Coast Districts.
(a) In Donner, Fallen Leaf and Tahoe lakes Lahontan redside, tui chub, Tahoe sucker, Lahontan speckleddace, mountain sucker and Paiute sculpin may be used only in the same lake where taken.
(b) In Shasta Lake only golden shiner, red shiner, fathead minnows, mosquito sh and thread n shad may be used or possessed for use as bait.
(c) Cray sh shall not be used for bait in the Pit River and all tributaries between Pit 3 Dam (Lake Britton) and the Fall River-Cassel Road Bridge at Fall River Mills, California (includes Hat Creek and Fall River and their tributaries).

1.46. FINFISH DEFINED.
Finfish are defined as any species of bony fish or cartilaginous fish (sharks, skates and rays). Finfish do not include amphibians, invertebrates, plants or algae.

Guess anchovy is a finfish. Bummer.

Too bad it is illegal to use anchovies in Tahoe

4.30. BAIT FISH USE IN THE SIERRA AND NORTH COAST DISTRICTS.
Except as provided below, live or dead Finfish shall not be used or possessed for use as bait in the Sierra and North Coast Districts.
(a) In Donner, Fallen Leaf and Tahoe lakes Lahontan redside, tui chub, Tahoe sucker, Lahontan speckleddace, mountain sucker and Paiute sculpin may be used only in the same lake where taken.
(b) In Shasta Lake only golden shiner, red shiner, fathead minnows, mosquito sh and thread n shad may be used or possessed for use as bait.
(c) Cray sh shall not be used for bait in the Pit River and all tributaries between Pit 3 Dam (Lake Britton) and the Fall River-Cassel Road Bridge at Fall River Mills, California (includes Hat Creek and Fall River and their tributaries).

1.46. FINFISH DEFINED.
Finfish are defined as any species of bony fish or cartilaginous fish (sharks, skates and rays). Finfish do not include amphibians, invertebrates, plants or algae.

Guess anchovy is a finfish. Bummer.

No it's legal.

ARTICLE 3. BAIT REGULATIONS FOR
INLAND WATERS
4.00. BAIT-GENERAL.
(f ) Except for restrictions listed under special
regulations, dead ocean fish may be used as bait
statewide. This section supersedes the provisions
of sections 4.10, 4.15, 4.20, 4.25 and 4.30.

Too bad it is illegal to use anchovies in Tahoe

4.30. BAIT FISH USE IN THE SIERRA AND NORTH COAST DISTRICTS.
Except as provided below, live or dead Finfish shall not be used or possessed for use as bait in the Sierra and North Coast Districts.
(a) In Donner, Fallen Leaf and Tahoe lakes Lahontan redside, tui chub, Tahoe sucker, Lahontan speckleddace, mountain sucker and Paiute sculpin may be used only in the same lake where taken.
(b) In Shasta Lake only golden shiner, red shiner, fathead minnows, mosquito sh and thread n shad may be used or possessed for use as bait.
(c) Cray sh shall not be used for bait in the Pit River and all tributaries between Pit 3 Dam (Lake Britton) and the Fall River-Cassel Road Bridge at Fall River Mills, California (includes Hat Creek and Fall River and their tributaries).

1.46. FINFISH DEFINED.
Finfish are defined as any species of bony fish or cartilaginous fish (sharks, skates and rays). Finfish do not include amphibians, invertebrates, plants or algae.

Guess anchovy is a finfish. Bummer.

But then, out of left-field!

4.00. BAIT-GENERAL.
Legally acquired and possessed invertebrates, mollusks, crustaceans, amphibians (except salamanders),  sh eggs and treated and processed foods may be used for bait, except:
(a) No species speci ed as endangered, threatened, candidate, fully-protected, or otherwise protected under state and federal law may be used as bait. (b) No salamander may be used as bait. See section 5.05 for other amphibians that may be used as bait. (c) See Section 5.35 for restrictions on cray sh;
(d) See Section 7.50(b)(74) for restriction on bait collecting in Hat Creek;
(e) No trout may be maintained or possessed in a live condition in any container on or attached to any boat;
(f) Except for restrictions listed under special regulations, dead ocean  fish may be used as bait statewide. This section supersedes the provisions of sections 4.10, 4.15, 4.20, 4.25 and 4.30.

It'd be nice if CDFW could clarify the language in 4.30 by adding that ocean finfish are OK to use as bait, instead of keeping it in 4.00.  They could simply add it as 4.30(d).  I can't speak for anyone else, but whenever I open up the regs booklet for inland waters, the first thing I do is head to the "alphabetical list of special waters" portion to look for site-specific regs, then if I can't find them there, I move out to the District regs.  If I went that path and didn't go to the statewide regulations, then I'd falsely believe that ocean finfish were illegal to use as bait in the Sierra and North Coast districts.  One has to go to statewide regs to discover the ocean fish exception in 4.00.  Sure, doing something like that might lead to a little redundancy in the regs, but isn't a little redundancy okay if it results in significant clarification of the regulations?

Unfortunately cannot do Friday. If anyone is hanging through the weekend, I was looking at Saturday afternoon or Sunday (if the wind stays down). Weather looks prime for a bit of toplining.

I was looking at Sat AM.  Would be happy to go somewhere new on the Lake...  Can't do Friday...

Well now I want to go both days!