Shad run in FULL effect!

[JerryC]

Received this email from the Lewis report yesterday... enjoy!

Windy night tonight. It was coming up from the south so the water was choppy. Made it a challenge to row the boat out. River was at 2.13' and 56F. Nice enough looking haul but still cool and mostly overcast. Finally got the net in and was rewarded with 164 shad (returned 112, 30 bucks and 22 roe). In the mix were also 3 catfish, 1 sucker, 30 gizzard shad and 2 walleye. In the last 10 years (these are the easiest records for me to look at in this detail) our top three hauls were 65 (2010), 45 (2003) and 39 (2012). The 164 number also is more then we have caught in 6 of the last 10 years. That gives us an unofficial total of 251 so far this year. That would be 4th when compared to the last 10 years. I could go on, but it's late. We'll be at it again tomorrow.