Top water flies?

[psba...@yahoo.com]

I know the sinking shad dart flies work, but I am not a huge fan, spinners are about the same. Is anyone using dry flies, the shad are eating a lot off of the top water?

[Yambag Nelson]

No one is using dry flies to catch shad.

[TurbineBlade]

I hate spinners too -- very hard to thread on the hook. 

[Rob Snowhite]

The only place I know of to catch shad on dries is on the Delaware River with Light Cahill dries. No joke.


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[Richard Farino]

Grizzly, one of our old employees, who has fished for shad as much as anyone and longer than most, used to swear the shad were coming up and eating caddis on the river.

One year I paid attention late in the season and he was right.  Only thing is the water has never been clear enough to really skate a dry and get the shad to chew it.

We threw a big Goddard caddis one year and had a fish blow up on it but never ate, and we weren’t sure it was a shad.

R

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[Ashley Frohwein]

Ummmmmmmmm. Spinners are the same as shad darts? And you've seen shad feeding heavily on spinners up top. I'm lost.

On Monday, April 17, 2017 at 1:55:37 PM UTC-4, psba...@yahoo.com wrote:

[TurbineBlade]

Excellent -- my work here is done.  ;)

Gene

[namfos]

ROFLMAO

[Bobby Davis]

Me thinks the guy meant spin tackle spinners in the vein of mepps and rooster tails.  Just a thought

On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 6:12:59 PM UTC-4, Ashley Frohwein wrote:

[psba...@yahoo.com]

To clarify: I was looking for advice on hooking shad with dry flies, turns out that it is rare and difficult.

Thank you all for the tips,

[Terry C]

The biggest shad I ever caught was on a parachute Adams just before dark on the Upper Delaware.  I thought i hooked into a large trout.  When I got it in it was  a good 4 lb  A.shad.  

On Monday, April 17, 2017 at 1:55:37 PM UTC-4, psba...@yahoo.com wrote:

[Bobby Davis]

Guys I watched a snakehead at Chain Bridge sip a caddis today.  File that under things I never thought I would type.  But seriously, it didn't come up and trash it like a bass on a popper, it came up and gently sipped in the caddis like it was a trout in a limestoner.  I was blown away.

On Monday, April 17, 2017 at 1:55:37 PM UTC-4, psba...@yahoo.com wrote:

[Andrew Sarcinello]

That's really cool Bobby. I have caught some nice largemouths on small dry flies in ponds while fishing for bluegills...and yeah they just gently sipped it. Now that you've seen a snakehead do it, it makes me think all fish have at least some awareness of surface bugs.