And the Columbia River as well.Don’t forget the Pike in there too! That’ll be the fishery in 10-20 years.
I saw them gillnetting off Seward Park a few days ago and was wondering what they were targeting.
I’m curious if they’re setting nets with varying mesh sizes. Mesh size determines what size fish is able to swim through the net, and what gets gilled…
..does anyone on here know?
Shad roe fried is pretty good too. Too strong for some, but I like it.Quite a few spey fishers as well as SH casters are fishing the lower Sacramento for shad every spring. I can’t abide the slimy bastards, caught more than my share of them below Bonneville as a kid. I will admit that smoked and canned they are delicious.
......and sturgeon bait!Shad makes for excellent crab bait.
Depending on how the Tilapia was raised, what it was fed and country of origin.Tilapia was once considered trash fish but now, due to marketing, is highly recommended Is shad next?
Canning them removes the bones, we used to take them to a guy in NE Portland who smoked and canned them; delicious!I think it was in Mcphee’s book The Founding Fish (about American shad if you have t read it) where there was a saying that God took a porcupine and turned it inside out, and created a shad. They are bony!
The shad on the West Coast are transplants from the East Coast.I have fished for Shad both in the Potomac in DC and in the Merrimack in Newbury Port MA. Shad like brightly colored streamer type flies. Shad "darts" and cone head flies produce the most success. I have caught some on orange & bright green Hornbergs as well. They run into the river in the Spring and that is the only time I have ever had success. I did not know that there was a West Coast Variety, so I don't know their habits.
I have never eaten them as the waters where I have fish do not have a reputation for cleanliness, but they are much much cleaner than they ever were a decade or two ago (especially the Potomac). I did have a friend in VA who used to smoke them like Whitefish, but again I never ate any.
I believe in the process, the bones of Shad will soften. I think I read that in the book mentioned above on another post.Canning them removes the bones, we used to take them to a guy in NE Portland who smoked and canned them; delicious!
To the Sacramento River.The shad on the West Coast are transplants from the East Coast.