{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Stripers with a surprise hickory shad

I just remembered that I also tangled with a few at night near some docks in Chincoteague a long time ago. They were fairly small but charged a black clouser.

On Monday, May 7, 2018 at 11:52:51 AM UTC-4, chad tokowicz wrote:

thats sweet!  Nice mixed bag.

As for the rest of the talk, last summer I got into a good sized school of striped bass with Hickory Shad Mixed in. Fishing the rip on the outgoing tide produced a fish of either speices on almost every cast (schoolies). but on that end, they were probably on the same bait as the stripers and due to the size of the striped bass they were probably not really focused on muching on the shad. 

On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 9:47:42 AM UTC-4, Charlie Church wrote:

I went out fishing dock lights the other night with a few buddies in Lynnhaven Inlet (Virginia Beach). If done right, it's a pretty easy way to get on a good amount of schoolies. 

My first fish of the night ended up being a hickory shad. Apologies for the crappy photo. It ate a 4 inch purple / black streamer and definitely caught us off guard. 

Shouldn't these be in freshwater right now? Lynnhaven is a saltwater inlet so I can't imagine them spawning in it compared to say the James/Nottoway/Potomac.

I have caught them before in the light lines in the winter at the HRBT but this was definitely a first.

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