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Title: It's time to load up on shad
Post by: Ripper on June 07, 2013, 06:18:42 AM: This is a clip from the Seattle times yesterday. If you want to load up on sturgeon or crab bait, get them now!

The latest word coming out of the Lower Columbia River should be a signal for anglers to head south right now.
In the Lower Columbia River the shad are so thick that you could just about walk across their backs, and some early summer chinook weighing in excess of 30 pounds were being caught.
“There are a lot of people and shad with some groups catching over 100 fish,” said Joe Hymer, a state Fish and Wildlife biologist. “It is pretty crowded.”

Shad single-day counts at Bonneville soared to 94,426 on Monday, and 128,775 by Tuesday for a whopping season total of 734,163.
Title: Re: It's time to load up on shad
Post by: Mfowl on June 07, 2013, 09:00:04 AM: I'll be down there on Saturday looking for some of those 'nooks. If things go well we'll try for some shad to. Gonna be in the Longview area.
Title: Re: It's time to load up on shad
Post by: TheHunt on June 07, 2013, 09:02:39 AM: I would like to go down there but with someone who has done that before.
Title: Re: It's time to load up on shad
Post by: steve04 on June 07, 2013, 10:12:32 AM: With numbers that high its easy fishing! :tup:
Title: Re: It's time to load up on shad
Post by: _TONY_ on June 07, 2013, 10:19:18 AM: We went last weekend and slayed 'em... (not hard) Probably going back in two weeks.
Title: Re: It's time to load up on shad
Post by: D-Rock425 on June 07, 2013, 12:37:46 PM: Can you eat them or I should say any good to eat. Bosses wife got some from a co worker today and asked me how to cook it I said with a pan and heat source of some kind :dunno:.
Title: Re: It's time to load up on shad
Post by: Mfowl on June 07, 2013, 12:39:48 PM: They're not known for their tablefare, but they are great for catching tasty things like halibut, sturgeon and crabs.
Title: Re: It's time to load up on shad
Post by: Ripper on June 07, 2013, 05:40:46 PM: I have never eaten them but from what I have heard they are just like herring. You can smoke them, pressure cook them then can them. You eat bones and all.
Title: Re: It's time to load up on shad
Post by: Encore 280 on June 07, 2013, 06:13:50 PM: Shad roe.
Title: Re: It's time to load up on shad
Post by: _TONY_ on June 09, 2013, 11:01:08 PM: Quote from: D-Rock425 on June 07, 2013, 12:37:46 PM
Can you eat them or I should say any good to eat. Bosses wife got some from a co worker today and asked me how to cook it I said with a pan and heat source of some kind :dunno:.

The only way ive had them is canned (pressure cooked)... They're not bad.
Title: Re: It's time to load up on shad
Post by: buglebuster on June 10, 2013, 12:21:00 AM: Ive been wanting to smoke them then mix the meat up with mayo for sandwiches.
Title: Re: It's time to load up on shad
Post by: oldcamper on June 10, 2013, 08:30:39 AM: There is a good you tube video by a captain ruso or something like that.
Title: Re: It's time to load up on shad
Post by: h2ofowlr on June 10, 2013, 08:32:29 AM: What's the hot lure these days for catching them.
Title: Re: It's time to load up on shad
Post by: CP on June 10, 2013, 08:36:22 AM: Quote from: Ripper on June 07, 2013, 05:40:46 PM
I have never eaten them but from what I have heard they are just like herring. You can smoke them, pressure cook them then can them. You eat bones and all.

They are excellent smoked!
Title: Re: It's time to load up on shad
Post by: _TONY_ on June 10, 2013, 09:41:10 AM: Quote from: h2ofowlr on June 10, 2013, 08:32:29 AM
What's the hot lure these days for catching them.

1/2 oz inline lead to a 1/8oz plain jighead, fished on the retrieve...