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Hi SD; haven't been out so much as the reports of shad in have hindered... but, i did manage to get out 2wice in the last few weeks. nothing around your neck of the woods, aka south bay area, but more or less Belleville and Big bay.
The first trip, not so much related to the Shad being in, but the sheep have been spawning on most of the shoals, driving the fish out of the weeds, but picked up 2 around point Anne.
Last week, i scraped out 4 on Point Anne, but still marked lots of bait fish off the shoals in the deeper water. I had to work hard to get them, and didn't get a thing on the weed lines around Big Island Shoal, Rush, or Minnie Blakely.
hopefully i will get out this week if the wife lets me and have something to report.
I have focused my cranks on the live target banana shad style baits and have been doing great with them. I read a few posts on this board about the lures being over rated, and me having a tool box full of them ( unused of course), wanted to give them a proper "shake". I have caught pretty much most my fish this year on either the Golden Shiner or Gizzard Shad style "rattle baits" casting primarily around weed lines, or the banana/stick baits in rainbow shad/golden colors... i feel any will work, but i have been having great luck with these particularly ... as much as i hate to troll, they have been out-fishing my CC-Shad's and Shad Raps.. which is pretty hard to do year over year.
If i where to head out tomorrow, i would be hitting Point Anne, Ship Wreck island and the north shore of Big Island along the weed lines.
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