Had my first trip to CJ for quite awhile last night. I decided to try some of my night fishing tactics that I've been having good success with at CC. Two home made green submersible LED lights and a green strip light on the side of my boat.

I arrived at dusk and marked a good number of suspended fish in the deep water marina area and what appeared to be some coming up from bottom.

That soon changed to a scattered band of noise around 15-20ft. Later, the band stayed but a thin band developed near the surface. The green LEDs weren't really attracting the shad like at CC.

I later discovered what the band near the surface was. I pulled anchor to move and when my boat hit between 3.5 to 4.5 mph a GAZZILLION shad broke the surface. I was able to net a few to get a look at them. They were mostly about 3". It was kind of odd that slower or faster speeds didn't generate the same activity. The wash/wake from my bow was apparently just right at that speed. I'm pretty sure that the shad covered nearly all of the southern end of the lake, but seemed to thin out significantly at shallower depths (less than 14ft)

I only ended up catching dinks. From memory, the water temp upon arrival was around 78 and around 74 when I left.