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In the past few days we have been out shad fishing and have been killing them. We have also had alot of people wondering if we had this huge secret, because we were nailing them and the guys next to us were not doing anything. After about 40 shad in less than an hour for four rods we got questions. The boat right above us pulled off his anchor and pulled next to us. You know how that goes. Glad to have some more company we gladly told him what we were using and made him up the rig we were using. Once he tied it up and threw it out his son was nailing fish until he could get the rest of his rods rigged the same way. After that he joined us in alot of fun.
The SECRET! Well there is none. Use two of the green grubs with a small gold hooked jig head.
Use a 3-4 oz. drop sinker about 2.5-3 feet below your first leader. put you next leader about two feet above the bottom leader. Your top leader should be a foot long, and your bottom leader should be 2-3 feet long. We caught 95% of our fish on the bottom leader. Do not use spreaders. Use black three way swivels. I started using the small spreaders and caught one fish for there 10. Once I switched I could not keep them off. Hey, it works.
We made sure we were on the bottom. Back bounce your line about 30-50 feet behind the boat. CHeck to see if you are on the bottom every so often. IT WORKS! Have fun. Oh yes. We were in 20' of water.
The SECRET! Well there is none. Use two of the green grubs with a small gold hooked jig head.
Use a 3-4 oz. drop sinker about 2.5-3 feet below your first leader. put you next leader about two feet above the bottom leader. Your top leader should be a foot long, and your bottom leader should be 2-3 feet long. We caught 95% of our fish on the bottom leader. Do not use spreaders. Use black three way swivels. I started using the small spreaders and caught one fish for there 10. Once I switched I could not keep them off. Hey, it works.
We made sure we were on the bottom. Back bounce your line about 30-50 feet behind the boat. CHeck to see if you are on the bottom every so often. IT WORKS! Have fun. Oh yes. We were in 20' of water.