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Originally Posted by Chrisper4694
saw this in the delaware a month or so ago, little bait everywhere (looked like peanut bunker, i'm assuming baby shad) I fished it top to bottom...nothing was eating, no hits, no sign of any bait being taken from the surface even though they were fluttering EVERYWHERE and i mean EVERYWHERE like a blanket.
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Those were juvenile American Shad migrating back to the ocean. After spending 3 – 6 years in the salt, they return as adults to the same freshwater river to spawn.
Juvenile Gizzard Shad remain in the fresh & brackish waters in which they were spawned, & grow very rapidly. They don’t migrate to the ocean, & adult Gizzard Shad don’t migrate from saltwater to freshwater to spawn.
