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Topic: live minnows near Berryessa?  (Read 1950 times)

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notuna

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Anyone know where you can get live minnows near Berryessa?

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E Kayaker

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Anyone know where you can get live minnows near Berryessa?

Guns and fishing has them in vacaville. I'm not sure if sweenys in Napa has them or not.
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scubaluis

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Sweenys in Napa has then too.
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Anyone know where you can get live minnows near Berryessa?

Guns and fishing has them in vacaville. I'm not sure if sweenys in Napa has them or not.


Neither of which open early enough to buy minnows for an early morning outing.  Is that right?

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Anyone know where you can get live minnows near Berryessa?

Guns and fishing has them in vacaville. I'm not sure if sweenys in Napa has them or not.


Neither of which open early enough to buy minnows for an early morning outing.  Is that right?

-Allen

I usually buy mine in Vacaville the night before. I don't think they open until 9 AM. I don't know about sweenys.
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Berryessa Sporting Goods in Winters used to have live minnows.  It's been many years so don't know if they still do but might be worth a call.


E Kayaker

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I checked a couple years ago and no one up near the lake sold them. Check Virgil's Bait in Suisun if you want early hours.
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vwool

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I checked a couple years ago and no one up near the lake sold them. Check Virgil's Bait in Suisun if you want early hours.

I called a couple weeks ago and they didn't have any but said they would have some in the future. Call before you go if stopping at Virgil's.
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E Kayaker

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I checked a couple years ago and no one up near the lake sold them. Check Virgil's Bait in Suisun if you want early hours.

I called a couple weeks ago and they didn't have any but said they would have some in the future. Call before you go if stopping at Virgil's.
What I meant to say was Berryessa Sporting Goods didn't sell them a couple years ago. I doubt they do now either.
http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=42846.msg470404#msg470404

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scubaluis

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before you go you may want to check road conditions since some of the road was washed out.
read this.

http://lakeberryessanews.com/ 

HIGHWAY 121 UPDATE: Full Highway Closure Continues,
Emergency Repairs Underway, Temporary Traffic Lights scheduled to be activated the week of March 28.

Press Release: The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has started emergency roadway repairs and begun installing temporary traffic signal lights on State Route 121 (SR-121) in rural Napa County. The highway was undermined during heavy rains earlier this month.

Northbound and southbound SR-121 remains closed until further notice between Wooden Valley Road and Circle Oak Drive. The highway was originally closed March 13.

Retaining Wall Work - Southbound and Northbound SR-121 lanes
On Saturday, March 19, crews started installing metal beams and constructing a retaining wall to prevent erosion of the existing southbound SR-121 traffic lanes. Workers also started installing several steel beams along the existing northbound traffic lanes to prevent further erosion and assist in the reconstruction of the damaged northbound SR-121 traffic lanes.
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Spanish Flat store had them last time I was there. Small ones though. No jumbos.
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