Thread: Had a tough day with schools of shad swimming through. Suggestions?

This happens a lot on a lake I fish Walleyes the Shad schools are huge and Walleyes and every other fish that eats Shad hangs around these schools. What I do and many others is speed everything up what you are looking for is that reaction bite, trolling speeds will run close to 4.5MPH, or if your casting your basically burning cranks, spinners thru these school, looking for that reaction bite. Caught Crappies, Stripped Bass, Largemouth, Smallmouth Bass, Walleyes, Sheephead, Catfish at these speeds. If you watch your sonar you will see tons of fish hanging at the bottom of these schools of Shad waiting for crippled or injured Shad floating down.

Yep. My Thursday afternoon trip was just like that. Muddy water and shad on the surface in schools everywhere. Zero fish in the boat.

Still haven't cracked the code, but my nephew has. He begged his dad for a livescope for over a year, and finally his dad relented, going in 1/2 on one.

My nephew has been going out on every day he can, and the results have been very, very good. He's learned to fish open water, find the schools and get barely into casting range. He's done well, much better than me:

Nice. Nothing wrong with those to me. Looks like you did a decent job even if tough.

never have exactly figured out the magical silver bullet on them packed up open water crappie , but as I stated on the homepage , when at the dance , you might try dancing ....
about a foot or so above the pack and get jiggy with it .....