Dozens of fish caught in an hour and a half

Moon Shadow

I didn't say I caught them.   I am lucky to get the boat out once every month or so. Yesterday I filmed birds catching fish.  Amazing to watch them swallow fish of that size.  The action was hot and heavy for about an hour and a half with dozens of fish being caught and eaten at Payne's Prairie State Park. I took more snapshots than video because the Cormorants would swallow a fish it caught in a few seconds and the camera wouldn't focus fast enough.  The Wood storks and Blue herons. would take too long to finally eat the fish. and I didn't want to miss all the action with the Cormorants.  A big highlight but I was always too slow to catch them were Bald Eagles diving and getting fish.  I was lucky and caught several good photos and videos of most of the fish catching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUAsX8eWmEc

Slacker

amazing that they can swallow fish that big

great show, thanks

conchydong

Great footage thanks for sharing.

capt louie

Lots of gizzard shad..

Quad32x

capt louie said:

Lots of gizzard shad..

I was wondering what kind of fish they where.

Jonsredfishin

Definitely gizzard shad. Never seen them so thick in there. 

Took my wife and son out there last week. We got to see our first bison  

Moon Shadow

Thanks, I was wondering what type of fish they were.  I knew they were a type of shad to me they are great bait for bass when they are small.  I didn't know they could get that big up to 20 inches and 2 lbs.  The article said being a type of herring they are good smoked.  Anybody ever heard about someone eating them?  They make a run to spawn like a salmon so maybe that is why there were so many in a small area.  It was fun to watch the birds swimming around with good size fish in their's mouths and how quick the Cormorants could swallow a fish of that size. It only took them a couple of seconds I had to hurry to get photos.  Got so many good photos of them but missed a lot of photos opps.

Elapid

sounds much like the shad run in the St John's each year. fly fishers love to catch those things on 4 wts and swear it's a blast. 

Jonsredfishin

Anyone else remember that huge fleet of Asian boats the state brought in to get the shad out of Newnans Lake about 10 yrs ago? Looked like the same shad. I remember crossing the lake at night and the shad would be jumping in the boat like mullet. 

capt louie

Jonsredfishin said:

Anyone else remember that huge fleet of Asian boats the state brought in to get the shad out of Newnans Lake about 10 yrs ago? Looked like the same shad. I remember crossing the lake at night and the shad would be jumping in the boat like mullet. 

I looked up the gizzard shad harvest on Apopka awhile back. They removed millions of pounds !

Alex from GA

The striper guides use them for bait in Lake Lanier GA.  I caught one and it stunk.  I don't think I'd eat one.

Jstubby2

When I was a kid (8 yrs old) we lived in  New Smynra beach for a year & 1/2, great time, shirmping with a lamp flounder giging that's when I learned the sting ray shuffle we hit the shad run on the St.Johns at Astor, very bony gotta pick thru them, good memories, I'm 65 now & it seems like yesterday.  

Snook Spanker

Fantastic filmz and photo'z as usual!! You are one Marlin Perkins MF'er!! Loved the kite photo'z!! On the gizzard shad, back when I lived in Lk. Worth I'd fish the spillways that drained the f/w canals into Lk. Worth for snook and tarpon after big rain stormz! The favorite bait used by the spillway rats who were always there was a big G-shad!! They would cast net them out of lakes, ponds and canals and have big live well tanks on their p/u trucks. I've seen them use and catch huge snook on shad up to 2 or 3 poundz!!! They would as I did sometimes use bluegillz or ciclidz as bait but the shad were by far their favoritez!!!!!!!