Quote Originally Posted by ecoast View Post
no sir; freshwater lake, 1900 acres

I was jig fishing my crappie structure


never seen one before; now I'm thinking that these are the bait clouds I see on graph



...gonna 'match the hatch' later today/tonight; finger's crossed!
Yeah ... I'm pretty sure they'd be the bait clouds you see. Maybe you can find out if your F&W folks stocked a particular type of Shad in that lake. That would rule out any look-alikes, if there's only one specie stocked ... but, illegal introduction of other species might also be going on.

Kinda looks like a Alewife, too .... but, many of the different Shad species are pretty hard to tell apart.