Have any of you tried fishing small sabiki rigs in the lakes with shad? Close to clsoing, lake 3 at Santee Lakes has tons of shad start coming to the surface, and was wondering if they could be caught throwing sabikis?
#818, "RE: Fresh Water Sabiki?" In response to Reply # 0
I think probably a bad idea. DFG law makes it pretty clear that if you're catching fish for bait you need to catch it by hand, with a dip net, or using a trap. You can read about it at:
http://www.fgc.ca.gov/2006/06freshfishregbook.pdf
Look in the Bait Regulations Chapter. I seem to remember that it used to be legal to use umbrella nets but they don't make mention of that in there any more.
#819, "RE: Fresh Water Sabiki?" In response to Reply # 1
Well, you learn something new everyday. Yes, sabiki rigs will work on shad, guess I broke the law. Also, I did it in the Delta one time and to my surprise caught 3 inch largemouth and stripers on every drop.