Shad Run

[h2ofowlr]

Caught 52 in 1:43 minutes on Sunday.  Lost another 20.  This little crappie jig was the ticket.  The smaller ones out catch the bigger jigs.

[Smossy]

Thanks for the update. If anyone's out there monday ill see you there. Ill be at the dam from noon till sundown probably

[Sandberm]

I always wanted to and finally did go after shad a couple years ago below Ice Harbor dam. A lot of fun! Hit the run just right and there was a bite almost every cast! Good fighting fish!

Just me and the asians  . I was the only white guy I ever saw in the half dozen times i fished along the bank. It was as if they got off work at 3pm at the beef plant at Wallula and started showing up at 4 or so. Friendly people no doubt.

I hope to hit it this year again. Gotta figure out a way to make em taste decent though.

[Matth]

363,000 went over yesterday.

[h2ofowlr]

363,000 went over yesterday.

Been a solid week of 300K plus fish going over the damn.  Were probably looking at the peak of it right now.  It will start dropping.  Lots of fish!

[The Marquis]

Since I don't need 3,000 Shad... I like to hit it right before the big run and right after.  I still have great success and don't have as many people to fight. 

[CP]

That's a lot of fish.

[RC]

Hmm, anybody ever use these for shrimp bait?

A friend of mine used ground up shad for spot prawns in the San Juans on the opener.  He put down two pots with straight ground shad, and two pots with his standard cat food/pellet mixture.  He caught shrimp in both and limited on the trip, but the cat food/pellet mix out-fished the shad 2 to 1.  So yes, they work, just not as well. 

[Stein]

Man, I wish the salmon numbers looked like that graph.

[elkrack]

Man, I wish the salmon numbers looked like that graph.

No kidding! 

[The Marquis]

If this years run isn't just early, it's going to get out of control in about a week.  Numbers dropped for a couple days, but are back up into the mid 300k range. 

[Bill W]

last year was a tad over 5.5 million.  This year it looks to be the mother of all runs.

[Smossy]

Left with around 20, Accidently hooked a few sturgeon and made runs like a semi truck, had one come completely airborn, approx 5-6ft in length. Pulled drag like it didnt exist and snapped my 40lb braid like it was spagetti even feeding lots of drag.
Ill tell you this now feeling that kind of power behind a line has me HOOKED. Next year sturgeon fishing from shore is gonna be a real serious thing for me.
I have a video of the airborne sturgeon, Gonna get it pulled off gopro later.
Great day arrived at about 6pm fished for a few hours.
Went to riffe, limited coho again, went to mayfield and watched a young guy on a kayak hook a 56" tiger muskie and he came to shore to land it.. "My first time ever seeing tigers in person" Soo cool. Basiclly knocked 3 more fish species off my list that Ive never seen.

[bearpaw]

I've heard a lot about this, maybe this is the year i should try to go fishing for them?

[AL WORRELLS KID]

Don't throw the all to the Crab's!
Treat them right and they can be a real treat to eat.

Try making smoked shad or (I like to Pickle mine.)
Doug