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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: The Gobble-stopper on June 01, 2020, 07:10:13 AM

Title: Shad
Post by: The Gobble-stopper on June 01, 2020, 07:10:13 AM: Shad are in! Has any buddy been after them yet? Specifically interested in the washougal area of the columbia. 93,000 over bonneville yesterday.
Title: Re: Shad
Post by: Bill W on June 01, 2020, 07:45:37 AM: I don't think I'll be shad fishing this year. Went last year at the area below the John Day dam. Have fished it before at the same area.
Title: Re: Shad
Post by: The Marquis on June 01, 2020, 11:48:40 AM: Quote from: The Gobble-stopper on June 01, 2020, 07:10:13 AM
Shad are in! Has any buddy been after them yet? Specifically interested in the washougal area of the columbia. 93,000 over bonneville yesterday.

Caught 2 in an hour on a day less than 4k went over Bonneville.
Title: Re: Shad
Post by: tritt007 on June 01, 2020, 11:50:55 AM: Im Going to hit it friday , with the numbers increasing that way if you wait until the end of the week there should be a few hundred thousand a day going over .
Title: Re: Shad
Post by: doyourtime89 on June 01, 2020, 11:59:22 AM: Yep numbers starting to climb I think I will make a "crab bait" run Thursday. I can't wait, fishing for shad is such a blast.
Title: Re: Shad
Post by: WSU on June 01, 2020, 12:04:12 PM: If anyone heads through Olympia with some extras I would really appreciate meeting up and grabbing some for bait. Thanks!
Title: Re: Shad
Post by: Parasite on June 01, 2020, 01:02:58 PM: WSU, if I go, you can have all mine. You've been helpful to me.
Title: Re: Shad
Post by: WSU on June 01, 2020, 01:17:29 PM: Sounds great! I like to turn them into crabs and halibut!
Title: Re: Shad
Post by: Backstrap on June 01, 2020, 07:34:30 PM: I’d love to get a small stash (6-8?) for halibut bait, if anyone in south King county gets more than they need. Thanks.
Title: Re: Shad
Post by: chiwawadan on June 05, 2020, 01:23:56 PM: This week blessed me with pan-fried shad roe with butter on toast, topped with an over easy egg.

Also, shad-roe mac and cheese.

Good eats.

If I get out again soon I think I'll go fancier next time and maybe do homemade ravioli stuffed with shad roe in a lemon butter sauce, or maybe those ravioli in a cream sauce with sundried tomatoes drizzled with white truffle oil.