GIZZARD SHAD

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2011/01/21 22:27:37 (permalink)

GIZZARD SHAD

what is up with all the shad? is this a regular occourance or what. i dont think they where around last year.. if anybody could shine a light on this for me it would be nice. do they come every few years or is this the first they have been this bad???? this is only my second year on the ice just dont understand y there are so frikin many of em
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    fish whisper
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/22 10:02:52 (permalink)
    asian carp....but yeah usually every few years they come in early they come in every year but sometimes there timing is off and screw up all the ice fishing
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/22 10:38:58 (permalink)
    Wait till the temp change in the spring. They like a certain temp, so they all layer up and suck all the oxygen out of that temp layer. It can actually kill them all. It makes for an awful mess. I remember about 15 or 20yrs ago, the dried-up dead shad layer was so thick around the edge of the bay you could bounce bricks off it.
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/22 21:29:06 (permalink)
    I dislike the gizzard Shad !!!
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/22 21:51:16 (permalink)
    Are they still just in the shallows or have they made it to deeper water?
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/23 00:37:56 (permalink)
    thanks for the info.... they are frickin everywhere misery is just packed full of them and they are everywhere that i have been in the bay.. chestnut liberty stink hole dobbins ..........
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/23 15:35:57 (permalink)
    I hooked one in the back end today at chestnut there are so many..
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/23 16:08:48 (permalink)
    They are going to eat all the Steelhead

     



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    fish whisper
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/23 17:11:31 (permalink)
    thats where they all went to this year!
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/23 17:39:19 (permalink)
    seen some in deeper water but nothing like stink hole/misery
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/24 11:18:20 (permalink)
    GATHER UP AND PUT THEM IN THE FREEZER FOR CATFISH BAIT THIS SPRING/SUMMER !
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/24 19:51:01 (permalink)
    thats a good idea
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/24 19:51:20 (permalink)
    Good luck catching them. They filter feed on phytoplankton. You might be able to tie a custom fly if they make hooks that small or you could use a casting net if you can find open water.

    I guess the bass like them, but in abundance they screw up the ecosystem(and apparently ruin perch fishing). It's illegal to introduce them to lakes where they don't already live. There's a pretty good chance they will muck things up till spring.
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/25 10:45:16 (permalink)
    i was wondering why they were totally uninterested in anything you pass by them....makes sense
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/25 10:51:30 (permalink)
    along with seeing all the shad, i have also caught a couple silver, slender fish with larger mouths resembling maybe a striped bass, they are only 5-6 inches long...they arent smelt as i am familar with them...any ideas...this is the first year i have caught them
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/25 11:22:43 (permalink)
    We get in them in the Beaver/Ohio river every few years and this year they were really bad, Took a big bait net down and netted a bunch and froze them for catfish time. Kinda hard to do thru the ice, but if there are that many, you should be able to get a few by other methods of capture. 
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/25 11:56:44 (permalink)
    There is a million 3" shad near the mouth of cascade.  Don't know for sure if its legal to net them there.  One part of the book says  you can and another says you cannot.
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/25 16:34:19 (permalink)
    are they in the creek in the open water?? i would like to go down and net a bunch to freeze in packages. they make great pike, catfish, bowfin, and burbot bait when the time comes because of their scent
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/25 18:25:11 (permalink)
    have seen a few in open water but the majority i have seen have been in the stinkhole & misery bay/horseshoe pond...did hear about piles of em at the mouth of cascade creek
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/25 19:17:48 (permalink)
    We do have lake herring and whitefish. It may have been one of those.
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/25 22:17:23 (permalink)
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/27 19:40:28 (permalink)
    ill have to take a good pic and look it up...or post it and let someone tell me what it is
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/30 13:22:34 (permalink)
    where the pic at
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/30 15:14:30 (permalink)
    fished pymy this weeked...ill post a pic as soon as i catch another...thinking about getting out into the channel next weekend and am assuming that will be the best bet to get one
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/30 15:15:29 (permalink)
    Maybe the shad are a good thing ... maybe we will reap the rewards this summer offshore with fatter walleyes and more of them .... If Ohians can't pick off as many in their spawning grounds that means a better migration come July  same difference in PI those smallmouths outside the bay are gonna be huge this spring with all that forage ....
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/30 17:06:54 (permalink)
    I wonder what the dissolved oxygen levels will do in the bay? All those extra gills, all those rotting bodies. Maybe a large die off is coming.
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/01/30 21:10:22 (permalink)
    I've seen a good amount of dead ones at bottom every where I go might be the gizzard Shad by the looks ofthem or maybe we Should ask someone with a water camera! Lol lol who have to use a camera to find fish
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    RE: GIZZARD SHAD 2011/02/01 10:21:21 (permalink)
    yea all ofthe dead ones are the gizzard shad
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