How to locate shad ; Where do they usually hangout
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- A little insight on how I find shad to catfish. Typically the shad tend to follow the same patterns from Spring until Fall so this is an accurate How To for most of the year. Hope it helps.
Also some states ( North Carolina for one ) do not allow catching gamefish ( Bluegill ) with a cast net, only with hook and line.
Same in Florida
Stillwater62 ## same in Maryland, and in Maryland we cannot use hickory or American shad And we cannot use herring for bait. We can use bluegill white perch and anything else. That’s messed up that we cannot use shad for bait.
@u.s.apower8044 do it anyways fuck em, the government ain't taking my God given freedom away, pay a 120 dollar ticket if you get caught
Awesome instructional video! Couldn't thank you enough for getting right to the point!
I going catfish now and wish I had some shad. Using the old punch bait. I like shad for bigger cats and the stink bait for numbers. I caught an 18 inch gizzard shad on a crappie jig of all things below a dam
Awesome! 😀
Finding shad then hoping to get a bite or big bite depending how thick the forge is
Great tips man!!-that was a big shad-the dogs enjoy the the new boat deck thats fur sure lol 👊
The dogs think it's the greatest thing in the world. They run around there chasing fish now whenever we catch em.
That was one massive shad! Thanks for the shad-catching tips.
Thanks for the info!
Great video!
Thanks!
Thanks for the tips!
Great video friend
Where are you cast netting thay allows you to keep blue gill out of a castnet
Don't even bother trying to keep shad alive. It's a losing battle and a waste of time and effort. Just use them as fresh cut bait or whole, but make flappers. Use those bluegill as live bait.
Frozen shad are better than a lot of things, but still suck. Too mushy.
Try salting them instead. Salt the small ones whole, the larger ones cut them up into bait size pieces first. Get a container, something like those square plastic ice cream buckets. Put a layer of salt, layer of bait, layer of salt, layer of bait and so on. You can put other baitfish in there to.
Get a 40 lb. pound bag of pool salt or feed salt, no iodine or other additives.
The salt preserves, no freezing/refrigeration needed. Also it toughens them up so they stay on a hook better.
It is a lot of work to keep them alive. I can keep them alive for about 6 hours but usually they die around that time. I usually just let them die and cut them up these days unless I'm trying to get into Flathead.
Nice tips man hew supporter
What kinda net do you use
Why not freeze the ones you don't use for later?
Unfortunately my experience has been that once you freeze shad they are nearly useless to use as bait. I have tried it multiple times and I've never had any good luck.
It is UNLAWFUL to use any game fish in most states.. considered a act poaching . Where the wildlife commission officer *(Game Warden)* Has the authority on the state side and federal side . To take over all your personal property and take you to jail. Which includes automobile ownership, Any and all fishing equipment including any watercraft that was used in the crime.. Guns ,knife,basically they have the power to take every thing .As looked apon as a act of poaching. And if they find out your saling them as bait. Then you've entered a whole another level of f#$ed . And believe me here in The Piedmont of North Carolina . They use the full extent of there power. To make you pay. And pay you will . Taking your north Carolina fishing and hunting license for life. You will no longer beable to fish in north Carolina public waters.. That's north Carolina and south Carolina..But their is a few kinks in the regulations about using Game fish as bait. I've heard some bodys of water will let you use game fish as long as it meets the legal requirements for that species. BUTT you can not be cut up . It has to have all of body connected due to checking the legal measurements. Damn you have it made there
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What's up my man how you been?