ULTIMATE ANGLING - the Ultimate SA Fishing website
General Angling Topics => Saltwater Lure Angling => Topic started by: Jared2608 on July 26, 2015, 02:05:58 PM
-
So I went down to Blue Lagoon on Saturday morning. It started raining as I got there, and there was lightning, so I retreated to the car and waited around until the sun came up, but very nearly decided to leave. I'm glad I stuck around.
From 6:30 to about 8:30 I caught well over 30 shad, I stopped counting because it was basically an on every time I thew a lure in. I got the four I wanted to keep on a Sensation T-Spoon in Sardine colour, then switched over to a Cuta Casting since the single hook is easier when you want to release them. After I got bored catching them one for one, I changed over to a plug to see if I could get lucky and find a garrick that was was around hunting the shad. After about 5 or 6 throws with the plugs I got hit, and almost thought I had my garrick, only to find I had caught another shad.
I left about 20 minutes later, it was getting really full and the wind was coming up a bit.
All in all it was great fun, but I'm a bit bummed I didn't get to see the take on the surface because a wave rolled in and blocked the view of the plug just as the shad took it.
Here is the one I got on a plug, the first I've got on a topwater:
(http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j389/Jared2608/shodonplug.jpg) (http://s1083.photobucket.com/user/Jared2608/media/shodonplug.jpg.html)
Here are the 4 I decided to keep, they're such a good chow!
(http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j389/Jared2608/shad3.jpg) (http://s1083.photobucket.com/user/Jared2608/media/shad3.jpg.html)
-
Well done! Nice catches!
-
Thanks, always good fun getting them on spinning gear.
-
Nice Jared. Hoe come their tails are all clipped? Did you try them as livies?
-
Nah the clipped tails are nothing so exciting. My dad was with me and when we fish together I end up carrying everything, which is apparently my job. His shad end up in my shad bag, so I clip the tails on mine to tell them apart. The bag gets quite heavy but as I said apparently this my job....
-
Nah the clipped tails are nothing so exciting. My dad was with me and when we fish together I end up carrying everything, which is apparently my job. His shad end up in my shad bag, so I clip the tails on mine to tell them apart. The bag gets quite heavy but as I said apparently this my job....
:rotfl that's so cool! Dad's rule!!
-
Nice!
-
Nice bud... It's awesome to be there when the fish are eating. :+ cred: on the releases.
-
Thanks, ya when they are wild like that you feel like you're a pro at spinning. You can imagine a DVD and your own signature series of lures. Then they go away and you have to target other types of fish and you realise you're never getting that DVD.... :shd: :shd:
-
Thanks for sharing that Jared, I'm led to believe that the Shad kept feeding all day at the lugs.
-
Yes, the basically fed through the day, and they fed on Sunday too despite the horrible weather. They've been behaving like that for at least the last week, where you see people getting them at all times of the day.
-
Well done! Yes the shad was thick last week hey! I got my share on spoon between Virginia and Beachwood on Friday. Pity the garrick were not hunting the shad!
-
Yeah no larger predators seemed to be with them. I didn't notice any shad coming back with damage either, no bit marks or anything so they seemed to be absent completely.
-
Well done on the catches. I heard the shad were raped on the weekend at lugs with nothing being done to stop the slaughter, sad really. :-( plus there were a lot that were undersize. :dunno:
-
Rather sad CLS , I believe the rape resumed today, some are even so audacious as to brag about catching 70 Shad on a chat group swr
-
Rather sad CLS , I believe the rape resumed today, some are even so audacious as to brag about catching 70 Shad on a chat group swr
I have been following some on FB, when there are no more then they can all starve to death. swr swr <: <: the authorities will do anything as its too dangerous.
-
Drove past Blue Lagoon earlier today - graphite forest.
Can't wait for the shad season to end. I can start fishing again.
-
Nice catch brother.Its a great feeling when you get them on artificial.
Now hopefully a Garrick on the next trip
-
Yeah I'm hoping for a garrick soon too lol
-
Heard the shad are still being slaughtered today.
-
Apparently they did come out again this morning, they where a bit tougher yesterday. The ones this morning where apparently bigger with most making size, and I"m told a 4kg one came out as well. I didn't fish this morning so I can only go on what I'm told.
-
Well done on your catches, but more importantly, well done on your RELEASES!! Did you witness the poaching?? I'm Cpt based and even I know how bad the situation really is. In Australia, the "marine cops" hide and film poachers, before making the arrest - that way they're nearly guaranteed a conviction! MCM should do the same, and accompanied by armed Police they should do a raid on the beaches and arrest the lot of them, take all their tackle and fine them! Bloody ludicrous how a blind eye is turned whilst our fish stocks are being raped right in front of our eyes!