03-03-2024, 08:19 PM
(03-03-2024, 08:08 PM)TubeDude Wrote: Anchovies make good bait for a variety of species. Anybody who has fished Powell knows that the stripers like them. But they are also readily snarfed by catfish. And anchovies are the mainstay of the salt water sport fishing industry in California. Over my fishing career I have also caught or witnessed a variety of freshwater species like largemouth bass, northern pike, lake trout (macks) walleyes, wipers and even rainbow trout succumbing to the seductive aroma of anchovies.
Some of the larger fish will eat a whole chovy. But often a chunk or a mere small strip of chovy flesh will elicit a chomp. Smaller pieces can be fished plain on a hook...or used to sweeten a jig. My biggest surprise was catching some nice rainbows from Lake Cachuma in California on small chunks of anchovy being soaked for channel cats. And I witnessed a decent walleye taken from Willard on chovy being fished for wipers...or cats.
Just don't try to serve me a pizza adorned with those smelly little fish. I ain't got enough fish ancestry DNA to make them appealing on a pizza.
Sturgeon can be added to that list.