NJFishing.com assemble!...to help me catch my first shad! haha thanks to every one that helped mike, bunkerdunker, njsquatch, eddie, tom, and also the unknown guy who gave me his spot when he left for the day! It took me three trips but i finally got my first shad.
After watching another angler catch a decent amount of them as i fished near him catching nothing he was leaving for the day and gave me some tips and told me how he was getting them. So i stepped into his spot and failed some more for another 30 minutes or so. Then i realized i was working too hard for them...I started barely moving the lure, letting it sit at the bottom of the hole slightly twitching it in the current.
It was a subtle hit but a real nice fight and i had my first shad ever, and a pretty respectable one i think at 22" (failed selfie with the tail cut off but oh well haha)
I went on, once i figured it out, to catch 6 total and missing a bunch of hits but not losing any once hooked during fighting. The first one i got was my biggest but i got another pic of a 20.5" one that another angler took.
05-10-2015, 12:46 AM
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