Todays topic:Fall Fishing

[joedog]

I've read that cold fronts are actually a good thing in the fall.
Reason
Shad actually like cooler water and seeing surface water cools faster then lower depths they school and crowd the surface couple of feet.
Plus plankton and such will rise to the sunny top portion of the water.
The shad are also reported to prefer the shore line at dawn and dusk moving deeper mid day.
Also shad mate in the fall and lay eggs come spring, so again a reason for the fall schooling.
Up north here I understand the shad actually die in water below 50 degrees? This I'm not so sure of but have found large kill offs of thread fin shad come spring. But large is relative cause NO shad are naturally from Wi. Most in the water come from anglers dumping thier minnow buckets after a days outing.




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