Shad Mania 2006

Big numbers of shad on the Columbia means HOT shad fishing. Carl, Jim and I made the pilgrimage down to the big "C" to wear our arms out with the silver acrobats called American shad. We left at 04:00 in the morning, 250 miles and four hour's later we found ourselves standing on the rocky shore below Bonneville dam. The sun was shining and the fish were biting! The only downside to the day was the wind. It never gave us a break! After six hours of non stop action we figure we had landed somewhere in the realm of 100 shad each. We kept quite a few for crab bait (best darn bait in the world!). The hot ticket was any thing chartreuse . Carl tried a little size 0 Dicknite spoon in pink and white. He couldn't keep them off. The shad are huge this year with many running in the 3-4 pound range. Looks like it will be another record run. Last year topped 6,000,000. That's allot of shad!

Jerry

Nice one Jim!

Jim has hooked one of many, many shad. Don't you love the 80's sweater look?

Carl's turn to land one.

A big ol' bucket of shad!