The shad are out in full force at Willard

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Some of you are not seeing the shad out there but Reelfast has a 5,000 watt fish finder that really shows them well and we saw more out there today than we have in over a month.



We caught two eyes right off the bat with our trusty Apex lures, then that went dead. We trolled for hours after that and nothing, finally we started seeing terns diving and shad jumping out of the water, being chased from some predator from below. Hard to see them but if you click on this pic you should be able to spot the terns.




We trolled toward them and quickly picked up three eyes, one so small we had to let it go.




We also caught a crappie and a cat but that was it for the day and we went in a little after 1 pm. Here are the fish we kept today.




Meet a member at the cleaning station that did better than we did, so hopefully he will reply to this post, in case you are having problems getting on site, send me an email at bigfishtackle@yahoo.com and I can help you get back on the site. Good meeting you today. Also saw Goose716 out there today.
By the way, we went over the island today and it was less than 2 ft deep and the buoys are no longer on it, so be very careful, if you don't have it marked with your GPS.

Heading out in the A.M. havn't been out since last week, my weekly trip will probably be coming to an end pretty soon due to water level dropping.