Quote Originally Posted by Rip-Plugger View Post
DS,

you fished with them?
how'd you do with them?
when we fished with them te fish would not stop,nearly 6 hours of slamming hits and lots of runners.


R-P
Hey Rip-plugger, what's up. We used to snag them as early as April. if memory serves me right. Right when the herring run was starting to get slower in the Delaware, the gizzard shad would start their spring run in some NJ rivers. So we jumped over and started snagging. Soemtimes the run was later or earlier by 2 or 3 weeks. I remember fishing gizzard shad chunks in RB right before the bluefish come in, when it's cold and most bass are caught on clam. So we didn't do too well with the chunks.

Now that I know they're not endangered, I'm going to take the kids fishing again in April, snag some up, and chunk like I mean it. Or I'll snag some up, and bring over to SI when the adult bunker hit over there, and do a side by side chunking test. You should come down from Ct in April; the SI fishing is off the hook. PM me around that time, I'll send ya in the right direction. It's all about bait at that time of year.

Thanks for the info, I learned something new.