American Shad Details
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alexanderfrancis posted in RI Baits and Tackle for American Shad
Lure (Other) Check Prices
- Shad dart and spoon
Other Check Prices
- Shad dart and spoon. Almost all fish caught while trolling
- shad dart and spoon
- Sucker Punch Bait Lead Free Micro Shad dart, pink 1/32 oz, pink with silver flash
Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices
- Tried shad darts and spoons with little luck. Then I turned to a double marabou jig rig (white) and began catching fish steadily. It was not fast and furious but it was steady. Fly rodders were doing the best using sinking line. Clay tried his fly rod with floating line with very poor results, especially compared to their every cast output.
- Fished a dart & spoon rig.
Panfish Jig Check Prices
Saltwater Jig Check Prices
- shad darts
American Shad Description
Shad actually spends most of its life at sea and only swims up freshwater to spawn. This species were formerly very abundant in both the Merrimack River of MA/NH and the Connecticut River of CT/MA/NH/VT but now exists at a much smaller quantity as far upstream as Bellows Falls of the Connecticut River and as far as Amoskeag Fishway of the Merrimack River in Manchester, NH. The Amoskeag fishway actually has windows built in to the side of the dam to allow sight of Shad, Salmon and other species while swimming up and down river.
Efforts are being made by multiple organizations to restore Shad to it's former spawning grounds in both watersheds.