Mitch, I was up on the pond one day last winter and I swear you could walk across the thing on top of the shad. I was fishing a tube jig and more often that not I'd throw it out and would snag a shad on the retrieve. I had the same theory as you. But like Russ said, I was back up in there a few week later...the shad were still there, but we did real good that day.

Hey CP...If the Virgin Mary were to fish Gold Creek, I'm gonna bet she'd do well no matter what the conditions. Her son was a great fisherman. Read Luke 5 and John 21.