See the post: http://singlebarbed.com/2007/10/10/i-wouldnt-mind-so-much-if-they-only-doubled-their-money-but-they-prefer-the-consumer-pay-much-more/

I should mention that electronics shops don’t care what color they send you, so you may want to call and specify the color – otherwise you get whatever they have.

A typical male can peel line off an 8 weight rig, and all of us can be thankful they don’t have teeth … or a taste for human appendages.

He opens the book with a description of a fight with a 4-lb shad on the Delaware River that lasted two and a half hours. One look at that forked tail they’ve got and you know shad are pretty good athletes, but two and a half hours to land a fish of that size…amazing.

McPhee quite likes the taste of shad as well, and includes a number of suggested preparations for shad and shad roe.

They spawn in Spring, and are usually only available for a couple months. I think the east coast has the Hickory Shad – and has the same popularity as our west coast flavor.

Shad are plankton eaters and respond to any brightly colored fly swung deep – although every year one color emerges as the go-to favorite. THe last couple of years it’s been Pink.

I’ve got a number of posts on my search for them last year – just enter “shad” in the search box above, it’ll show the fish and patterns I’ve used.

If you got the chance, Shad will make you a convert – a fight to the death, and then you let them go. They’re quite oily and bony – so some will smoke them – but mostly it’s their roe that is kept.

Me, I toss them all back, can’t say as I care for fish eggs of any sort.