12-31-2017, 06:04 PM
[#0000FF]I have had a couple hooked on small crappie jigs and they jumped and fought like baby tarpon. But I got neither of them to my tube. However, my wife did bring one in and thought it was a carp. I saw it, told her it was a shad...and illegal to possess...took a picture and sent it back in the water. Like at least one of the shad I hooked, hers smacked a small chartreuse tube with a hot red head.
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I have heard of other guys hooking them on small jigs, as well as snagging them on the troll. I wish they were more like the American shad in the rivers of northern California. I have caught lots of those and they are super fighters. I wouldn't mind giving a few of the bigger ones in Willard some exercise, even if they are mandatory release.
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I have heard of other guys hooking them on small jigs, as well as snagging them on the troll. I wish they were more like the American shad in the rivers of northern California. I have caught lots of those and they are super fighters. I wouldn't mind giving a few of the bigger ones in Willard some exercise, even if they are mandatory release.
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