Shad Fishing 1/30 & 1/29

Docked Wages

Another day of Shad fishing with Jeff (flats flocker) on the St Johns with some better results. No wind and calm clean water. Got on the spot around 10:00 am to find no crowd and no one fishing, surprising for a Saturday. This enabled us to drift versus anchor up and each drift we picked up a fish. The fortune was short lived as eventually 10 boats and half a dozen kayaks showed up and seeing the floatilla coming our way we were forced to anchor up. Thought about the yesterdays trip watching Dan Thompson target catfish gave me the idea of using a large chunk of Shad with a sinker out the back while we threw he long rod. Over then next 4 hours we each caught 7-8 shad a piece and eventually that chunk of Shad on the bottom paid off with a 7 LB channel cat. Pretty darn fun day on the water. The (American) Shad are here, if you can get out now is the time.

flatsflocker (Jeff) with a nice American Shad














From the day before:

Ryan checks Shad on fly off his bucket list



Panoramic Pic of Shad fishing on the Little Econ

Lobstercatcher229

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flatsflocker

That was definitely a fun trip Friday and Saturday. I went sunday with another friend and we got about 6 to the boat and another 7 pound catfish. Weather was more overcast sunday and the fishing wasn't as good. Still felt great to have 3 straight days on the water with good friends.

BigwaveDave

Nice!! Any striper?

Docked Wages

BigwaveDave wrote: »

Nice!! Any striper?

BWD, No Strippers for us but I saw quit a few caught as a bye product of shad fishing. I think the strippers came off the shore lines with less current. We focused on the deeper waters with higher currents. Go big (aka 3-4 lbs) or go home attitude....LOL.

hey flatsflocker, how did you do Sunday?

holymackerel

stripers any good to eat???

gatorhook

Crab bait.

BigwaveDave

Thanks for info.