Shad fishing

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Originally Posted by piemma

We'd Shad fish in the Fall at the Great Island Bridge in Galilee RI.

I never did in the spring as I was on Striper hunt immediately.

Hell, we once fished in the surf on New Years Day in front of P. Jude Light. That would start us so the Shad was a late Nov, early Dec pursuit.

I knew at least one guy who would liveline Shad in the Channel at Georges.

Not at Georges for me, but I did from the docks up the road a bit on both sides of the channel. That was a hiding spot for me when I lived in Gansett and it was snapping wind on an incoming. Walk out with the trout rod and the 8ft conventional meat stick. First shad got a 9/0 on the nose and then kept shad fishing. Never had a taker on a live shad either but scooped a few up drifting chunks of an expired shad.

[DZ]

Once upon a time we had an American Shad fishery in the Pawcatuck River in Westerly. State was trying to reestablish the run about 30 years ago. It was fun while it lasted.

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Originally Posted by DZ

Once upon a time we had an American Shad fishery in the Pawcatuck River in Westerly. State was trying to reestablish the run about 30 years ago. It was fun while it lasted.

Yeah you don’t hear about that much. Perhaps with the dam removals things will improve for anadromous fish....
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