05-11-2025, 08:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-11-2025, 08:36 PM by wiperhunter2.)
(05-11-2025, 02:36 PM)TubeDude Wrote: My guess is a cloud of newly hatched shad. About the right time. They start spawning by mid to late April and the spawn may extend through May. Once the shadlets reach about 1 - 1.5" they start to become prey and the predators have more to eat and are slower to hit lures. That usually starts after about the first of July.
Don't the newly hatched shad usually stay close to shore or around some cover, until they get big enough to be swimming out in the open water? When we saw something similar last week Alan wondered the same thing but I thought it was too early as well. Not that they could't have spawned already, just that they would be out in the open water already. I just googled it and gizzard shad spawn at 64-70 degrees, so the temps are right.