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Hillsdale....following the shad
Attachment 190057 When the screen looks like this....Attachment 190058 your livewell can look like this..........On monday the fish came pretty fast as long as you stayed in the shad school but it amazes me how quickly the school would seemingly disappear....then you just start hunting for them again and again and again....fun way to fish but frustrating when the fishing is so hot and then nothing in an instant. The wind was blowing into the area I was fishing both days so the trolling batteries got a good workout and white caps kept the boat bouncing but worth it when you could find the shad....I started in the same location on tuesday but couldn't locate big schools of shad so moved to another arm of the lake and found big schools like the above pic. and bigger crappie. The crappie seem to be mostly over 10in. and quite a few in the 11in. range and not as many little dinks as usual...I hope this means better quality fish for this year. I hope this pattern continues for awhile longer since limits for me are usually few and far between. I found out that you follow the school even into the standing timber in and out of the creek channel and they are constantly on the move.
