I like driving across the new bridge over Little River but I've got some memories of that old bridge and hate to see it go. Back in 1980 or so my Dad and I made our first trip to try to catch shad for stripers under that bridge. We had a terrible little florescent light and a 4 foot cast net we couldn't open. I'm not even sure Dad practiced with it before we went. We did this in early January with temps in the 20's. We were soaking wet from throwing that net most of the night and it was the coldest I've ever been. We caught 8 tiny threadfin shad for our efforts. We went on out Little River to a hump we had been catching hybrids jigging and caught 10 slab hybrids in 10 minutes on those baits. The first 7 were eaten immediately as soon as we could get them down. When we were down to the last one, I got a fish on it but it stayed on the hook so I dropped it back down and jigged it and caught two more before it got knocked off. Almost no one was fishing with live shad or herring back then and they worked like magic to us. Needless to say we went home and worked on our net throwing skills.