Question about shad

When you find the shad!!(This time of year winter)(Warmest water)(can be from a .01 to 1 degree difference!! The nearest cover,Brush pile,tree,rock pile,ledge with cover!! Your fish will be their to eat the shad that swims to close to the cover!! (Your Jig)!!

You are right about the being full thing, and sometimes day and night make a difference. One place I fish the shad and crappie have been there for a while. Sometimes they are caught well on the shad and sometimes not. The fish are there but they are full of shad and you have to wait until they feed on them again. Also I have caught them on the shad at night and when it turns daylight they stop biting them and hit jigs. I have caught crappie on the shad in bait so thick the water was boiling with them.

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Originally Posted by thill

I was also thinking you should net some of the natural bait and use it.

Could be, the fish were simply full, if all that bait was there. Try going back at the crack of dawn, and see if they are feeding there, IF you are confident that there are fish in that area. It could be that the bait was there because no predators were attacking them in that area. Hard to say!

-TH

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