2024 Shad stuff
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You’ll catch zero or twenty, nothing in between.
Feast or famine to an extreme with the shadding.
at my favorite Columbia River spot, it's more like 80 or 0.
We're headed to the Willamette tomorrow. I typically don't hit the Columbia until around the beginning of June.
Also on that note... one thing I've learned over the years: Where do you think the shad are before the big numbers start racking up at Bonneville? The ones being counted are the ones that are already up and gone (at least for us lower river folks).
Caught my first on a fly last year on the Willamette, super fun. Doesn’t look like I’ll make it out this year, but when the babies are a little older and I’m a little freer I want to make it a yearly pilgrimage.
Bare gold hooks mostly. I might even turn you in to halibut if the ocean ever calms down.
Of anyone is curious about this fishery, I wrote about it here:
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Fly Fishing in Oregon: April, May, June
Spring in Oregon might just offer the most variety of any of the seasons when it comes to fly fishing opportunities. Most of the fisheries happening during the first three months of the year are still happening in some capacity, and several more...
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Of anyone is curious about this fishery, I wrote about it here:
Fly Fishing in Oregon: April, May, June
Spring in Oregon might just offer the most variety of any of the seasons when it comes to fly fishing opportunities. Most of the fisheries happening during the first three months of the year are still happening in some capacity, and several more...
Missed this article originally, but I see you included my "tied in hand" shad fly
That was just a poke in the ribs at all the Speypagers who get so serious about that stuff. It did catch a lot of fish though.Question: For us chasing with a skagit line, think its better to run these jig hooks on a sink tip or a mono leader? I kinda feel like a tip just slows the sinking of the lead head over a thinner mono that just follows it.
I think it really depends on how far down you want to get. The one spot I fish for them on the bank (been a few years though), I was running a Skagit FIST with like 8' of T-14. So I don't think just a mono leader would have gotten me to the promised land.
Well the first ones I know of caught were over 2wks ago. I was holding out on this oneWhat's the earliest a shad thread has ever started...Evan?
I wonder if we should make a full on "so you think you want to shad" article.Of anyone is curious about this fishery, I wrote about it here:
Fly Fishing in Oregon: April, May, June
Spring in Oregon might just offer the most variety of any of the seasons when it comes to fly fishing opportunities. Most of the fisheries happening during the first three months of the year are still happening in some capacity, and several more...