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  1. 12-13-2011, 04:13 PM #1
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    I was beging to think we were about ready for a shad kill, but it's warming up some now. Has any lakes had one yet?

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  2. 12-13-2011, 04:19 PM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by crappie cowboy View Post
    I was beging to think we were about ready for a shad kill, but it's warming up some now. Has any lakes had one yet?

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    Way too warm, About a week of 15 degree weather would probaly do it. IMO
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    Water temp on Greers yesterday was 49.

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    Shad are alive and well on Conway, it's been my experience that the Shad kill does not happen until the water temp hits the upper to mid 30's.
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    Hey I don't mean to sound ignit but being a beginner I didn't know a shad kill occurred, how does it affect fishing and does it mean the crappie will now consider my minnow a rare delicacy?
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    I just happened to be readin up on this last week....here's a blurb from TVA's website

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    Quote Originally Posted by chazrull View Post
    Hey I don't mean to sound ignit but being a beginner I didn't know a shad kill occurred, how does it affect fishing and does it mean the crappie will now consider my minnow a rare delicacy?
    I will take a stab at explaining some of the finer points of the Shad kill, here on the lakes I fish and how it has affected the crappie.
    My experiences has been that at the begining of the Shad kill the crappie will gorge on the shad as they die and flutter to the bottom of the lake, during this time they will not bite very well. But as the Shad start to dwindle down the crappie start to feed again, when they start feeding again they will take minners really good, during the peak of the die off, I have had real good success vertical jogging 1/2 and 3/4 chrome rattle trAps, pull the trap up and let it free fall back to the school of crappie, when I do this with the rattle traps I will pull the trap up 8-10 foot and let it free fall back to a tight line, and repeat the process. It don't always work but when it does, I catch some hogs. I like the fishing alot better after the Shad kill, makes the crappie hunt for food a little more.
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    X 2 guru - Not many people here talk about the "trap" but it is a deadly lure.
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    never thought of vertical jigging a rattle trap..makes sense though...gonna try that
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