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Hey Guys

This is my 1st fall fishing down here in Still water,

I was wondering where to get on some Shad down here from my boat or could fish from shore,

I'm heading down to the Powerplant now to try there

Thanks

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Long story short, you can't buy it anywhere and they are illegal to catch with a throw net and good luck catching them with any legal ways (dip net or seine).

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Thanks Guys'

I was kinda looking for bait and spot ideas, I see them a lot when they are feeding or getting chased I read somewhere maggots and wax worms seem to work well as a bait

I have done well up north on cut Carp and Fathead minnows But the flooding this spring I had a hell of a time finding them( The Carp) so I don't have any in the freezer

Down here they don't really bite on them as well....SHEEPHEADS do tho

I just thought I'd toss it out there to see if any of you were catching them.

And if you would share with a newbie down here

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Well, if you are talking about catching Shad, you probably won't be able to. They are algae eaters and most are too small to catch anyways.

You might be referring to Mooneye which can be caught on the Croix. They sort of look like a shad, but are quite a bit bigger and will eat small things such as maggots and worms.

Also, using cut carp is illegal in MN.

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Thanks for the info DTRO

Your right I was thinking Mooneye and typing Shad

I should Clarify

The carp/ suckers get ground up after I take the useable meat off of them some gets fed to the chickens and some gets mixed with chicken livers for Cat fishing

I didn't think that was Illegal...Guess I won't be using that anymore

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Thanks for the info DTRO

Your right I was thinking Mooneye and typing Shad

I should Clarify

The carp/ suckers get ground up after I take the useable meat off of them some gets fed to the chickens and some gets mixed with chicken livers for Cat fishing

I didn't think that was Illegal...Guess I won't be using that anymore

Thats a pretty fine line on the ground carp. I don't think you'll get much fight out of a co if you are using chicken food. Just make sure you aren't chumming. Also illegal in mn.

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Thanks guys

No Chumming, just what leaks out of the hook bags, which isn't much,

So where down here ( Still water area )is the best place to buy live bait?

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Cut suckers has been preferred in my boat over shad...That's unusual, but when the fish tell you what they want, you listen.

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I think we boated 20 last time out and crushed fatheads and fathead crawler combo did most of the damage. Others in the boat did try some shad with little luck. My shad is a few years old so maybe thats part of the problem.

I still think people get a little to giddy over it like its gold or something.

Historically its been less then effective for me... But thats just me... grin

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Pretty sure Hi 5 closed.

Matts lucky bait is your best bet near Stillwater.

Feel free to give me all your frozen shad. Catching 60" fish is what makes me giddy. smile

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And I seam to recall you having similar veiws as mine a while back too DTRO?

Some of my shad at home is 4 years old and I have some stashed at a friends that is at least 6 years aged.

Dipp netted every one also.. winkgrin

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Oh don’t get me wrong. Fatheads (or some sort of other minnow like sucker or rainbow ) is my second favorite with crawlers being third. If I could only use one bait for Sturgeon it would probably be fatheads because they seem to work everywhere universally and you don’t have to mess with as many other fish like drum, and suckers and carp. I’ll take em over crawlers on the Rainy all day long…..but Shad just doesn’t work up there.

Yeah, I also wouldn’t want shad more than a year old. Even then, only when that’s all I have. I don’t mind frozen, but freezer burnt is no bueno.

Just based on some of the nights I’ve had out here on the Croix though, I’d pay triple the price of fatheads for good shad. Gold? Not really, but almost as bad as those $15/ea suckers at Thorne Bros they had this fall. smile

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Thanks guys,

I used to get my bait and archery stuff at Hi 5

Been using Fatheads up north of O'Brien, I was just wondering how and where to get on the shad,

Sounds like dip netting them is the way to go then?

I just never seem to get close enough to get them with a net

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Thanks guys,

Sounds like dip netting them is the way to go then?

I just never seem to get close enough to get them with a net

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Cast nets are illegal in both MN and WI. Wi does allow some sort of trawl you can pull behind a boat, but its not very practical for the average fisherman. The MN Catfish Species Workgroup has been working with the DNR for the past 2 or 3 years to try and legalize cast nets. SteveD (who posts in this forum regularly) has been working hard on this. The St Croix river is FULL of shad and fish love to eat them. It only makes sense that we should be able to find a compromise to be able to catch them and use them on the same body of water.

On a side note, the past couple of trips I had frozen shad right next to fresh crawlers/fathead and the catch rate was about equal, however all the small fish were on the fats and all the big fish were on shad.

The big cats like Shad too, this one found the bottom of the net on Sat.

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