So, we've identified a couple of places to start fishing. The next thing we should consider is the bait. In lakes with a shad forage base, nothing will beat shad guts or shad sides.

The best baits to catch early-season catfish are pieces of dead shad or other fish, shad gizzards which can be cut from dead shad found along the shore or commercial baits that smell like shad or ...

A low dosage of rotenone was applied to the lake, which was first stocked in 1982 and opened for fishing in 1988. Shad are highly susceptible to the chemical in the fall when the water is cold.

Dead shad also have to be scraped off equipment that keeps trash and other debris out of the dams’ turbines. Shad, native to the East Coast, are thriving in the modern, engineered Columbia River.

When fishing a shad spawn on the Tennessee River, David Walker often dresses a Chatterbait Jackhammer with a pearl-white Z-Man Razor ShadZ trailer. / zmanfishing.com ...

Top 3 Reaction Baits for Shad Spawn Bass on the Tennessee River Although throwing topwater baits is exciting, expecting those explosive blow-ups, reaction baits with better hook-up ratios will put ...

At Pike Lake, a lot of the dead shad have been gobbled up by birds and larger fish, but fisherman like Schultz expect to see more. The DNR says it's also received reports of dead shad at Winona Lake.

Lessons of the first-time fish wrangler: Shad eggs take about a day and a half to hatch. A dead shad smells much worse than a live one. When keeping 6,000 baby shad in a tank in an elementary ...

Fishing from the docks or around customer boats isn't permitted. The shad will likely flow into the Mississippi River as currents return to the marina. — ...