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Got out with Jimmy for his first time shad fishing.  He will be out of commission for a while, so I was hoping for a good day.  It was cold in the morning, but the water was 58 degrees.  We started a little after 8am and ran to the top.  We were the only boat up there and had high hopes.

After over an hour without a bite and a couple of break offs on snags we just had the amazing view of so many birds and Eagles taking advantage of the shad.





Finally, Jimmy got the skunk out with a small herring.



We moved down a little bit and then tried below the bridge.  I had left my extra tied up rigs in the car, so we made a quick trip back for those.  Then we went back up top.

A little while later, I caught a herring.



I caught one more herring and then a smaller shad.  Then I finally hooked a nice shad that was almost 17 inches.



We were optimistic for a better bite window, but it was not to be.  We tried a couple spots and never saw anyone catch any all day.  We finally called it at 12:30pm and went to lunch at Brickmakers.  Jimmy had their burger and I had the Rachel sandwich.

Then we got stuck in traffic due to construction and hardly moved for over 30 minutes.  All in a day of fishing.  At least we caught something and the sun was shining.