Signs Along Creek

Matt · Veteran Member

RE: Signs Along Creek

Matt · Veteran Member

Hey Bonk
I just read my last post and I sounded like a jerk.� Totally did not mean it to sound like that, but I am interested in knowing how a river is determined navigable or not.
Matt

chemdoc · Senior Member

Hey Captain,

I believe that Solano lake does not fall under the seasonal bait restriction, just Putah Creek itself.� It would be nice if that were the case year-round as well, but perhaps someday.

By the way, my friend Andan floated Solano this past weekend as well with the same results, so don't feel bad.� But the lake usually has good fishing in the summer once they plant regularly.

Phil

Bonk · Member

No worries Matt. I grabbed part of that quote from the following link:

http://www.dbw.ca.gov/PDF/PublicTrustDoctrine.pdf

There's a few other references but that one above really maps to both the laws and repeated interpetation of them through court decisions.

http://rubicon.water.ca.gov/v1cwp/sdbrs/nav.html

Is another good reference.� With Putah's established history of being used by Fur Traders/Trappers, it would be very easy to get it to fall under the commerce clause, let alone any of the other interpetations.� The CA Constitution guarentees the most liberally interpretation of the term in order to allow for recreational uses.

Matt wrote:

Hey Bonk
I just read my last post and I sounded like a jerk. Totally did not mean it to sound like that, but I am interested in knowing how a river is determined navigable or not.
Matt

-- Edited by Bonk at 21:32, 2007-03-28