Bonneville Dam Shad Fishing Primer

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This is a short tutorial for beginners fishing for American Shad at Bonneville Dam. I will outline what works for me.
EQUIPMENT
Rod: Medium 8'6"-9'6" salmon/steelhead spinnging rod.
Reel: 30/300/3000 series spinning reel
Main line: 10-12lb high visible mono
Leader line: 10-12lb mono
Lure: 1/16th oz shad dart
SETUP - use a Carolina rig
Have at least 20 of these for a full fishing day
From the mainline:
add a 1/2 - 3/4 oz egg sinker
add a small bead
tie on a #7 snap swivel
Leader:
cut a 4' length of line
tie a "non-slip mono knot" to the shad dart (don't use a different knot)
tie a perfection loop to the other end
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Intro Music by: Lino Rise
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Комментарии : 51

@patrickbender3061 5 лет назад

Awesome, very helpful - your a shad killing machine !

@PixsterTime 5 лет назад

Thanks, Patrick. I can't seem to catch fish when you're down-river from me. You catch all of them before they get a chance to see my jig.

@eminnow1541 8 лет назад

Thank you for the excellent summary and concise video. The best video on shad fishing at Bonneville so far. Good Job!

@PixsterTime 8 лет назад

Thanks. I'm hoping to do a second version of this video to improve it with lots more info. I was in a hurry with this one since it was the height of the shad season and the people I met asked the same questions over and over...

@eminnow1541 8 лет назад

I was there yesterday fishing for shad. It was a slow and extremely windy day with only about 30,000 fish passing. Thanks to your video I did well and scored about 30 fish landed! Thanks again. Keep doing a great job.

@CN-bg1fy Год назад

Great tutorial! Thank you for posting! I see the simple neutral weight color works just fine! nice egg sinker avoid sinkers

@PixsterTime Год назад

Thanks for watching!

@ShanePingStyle 3 года назад

LIKED as love your shad fishing fun, love to make you as new friend, share more please!

@PixsterTime 3 года назад

@ShanePingStyle - thanks for watching.

@fz1000red 6 лет назад

Looks like a nice thick average in that run! I use mine as halibut bait, but have heard of people baking them until the bones are edible. I'm sure the roe is worth eating though.

@muyangcheng6402 8 лет назад

Great video, clock face notation is a brilliant idea.. Few questions: 1, putting weight on main line make me have a hard time to feel a bite. I used 1/2-1oz depends on wind. How did you successfully tell a bite, not something else? 2, what's the distance between your weight to hook? 3, what time during the day you fish at bonneville dam? Does time/weather make a difference? 4, how did you choose location? Does that make a difference?

@PixsterTime 8 лет назад

If you feel heavier tension on the line as you reel, then that's either a fish bite or a snag. These fish don't nibble here, they hit the lure hard. The only way to tell whether it's a fish or snag is to set the hook and feel for head shakes. Distance between weight to hook (leader length) is about 3.5 feet. Weather does affect shad fishing. Sunny & warm/hot (high atmospheric pressure) is better than cloudy & cool (low atmospheric pressure). Don't go in rainy weather since the rocks are very slippery and dangerous. Correlate time with water spill (current). If the water flow is moving, then fishing is better vs not moving, very slowly, or even reverse current (when current goes upriver instead of down river). Closer to the deadline (the yellow line close to the dam) has more fish since the fish are holding in that area getting ready to go up the fish ladder. I like a little more personal space, so I fish farther away. I still catch a lot of fish and generally give some away to the people on my left and right.

@muyangcheng6402 8 лет назад

+Pixster Time thank you! One last 2 questions, when you reel in, do you let the weight sink to bottom or hang up in the flow? Do you fish in the morning or afternoon?

@PixsterTime 8 лет назад

The idea is to get your lure towards the bottom of the water column where the shad are located *and* slowly have that lure swing in an arc from deep to shallow. Heavier weight and/or slower water flow will cause the lure to sink too fast. This will cause you to either: 1) snag rocks and other debris, or 2) to avoid the snag you reel in too fast. Lighter weight and/or faster water flow doesn't allow the lure to sink fast enough to reach the bottom water column before your line goes past 2:30 and start to snag up on rocks. I usually fish all day and quit no later than 5pm. If you're asking when is the best time to fish...then it really depends on the amount of fish, weather, and water flow.

@muyangcheng6402 8 лет назад

+Pixster Time thanks!

@sanman206 6 лет назад

Went again yesterday and got another 130 using your technique. Found a great tool to open the belly’s without cutting the roe sack. Those cheap plastic letter openers. I use that and puncture the soft spot right behind the pectoral fin and get the hook part of the letter opener in and cut across the belly.

@PixsterTime 6 лет назад

You're on fire! It's a good shad season.

@snakeeyes9246 7 лет назад

I am in CT but only manage to catch hickory shad. hope to find some big Americans.

@boomer8393 5 лет назад

Nicely done! Thank you for educating us on the set-up.

@Player__Unknown 4 года назад

Awesome video! This video, as a beginner has helped me tons! Just a quick question. Should I always use four feet for the leader line or does it depend on the area, rocks, river flow or anything?

@PixsterTime 4 года назад

The leader can be any length that you're comfortable with for casting. I like mine at 3-4ft.

@Player__Unknown 4 года назад

@@PixsterTime Sounds good thank you!

@kyongb786 5 лет назад

You’re great! Thank you very much.

@guyh.4553 6 лет назад

Cool video! Never made it shad fishing when I lived in Pendleton and I now live in ID. Want to come over there sometime. Great idea on pressure cooking them. BTW, love your fish bag but doesn't it make it a little tough to net them that way?Ha ha ha

@olegs543 6 лет назад

What time the best for fishing spring or

@PixsterTime 6 лет назад

First 3 weeks of June at Bonneville Dam.

@sanman206 6 лет назад

Thanks for the tutorial. I went last yr and only caught 17 because I didn't know what I was doing. First trip this week and I caught 105 of them.

@PixsterTime 6 лет назад

S S - Wow, that's awesome! I'm going tomorrow. Hope you left some for me. :-)

@sanman206 6 лет назад

A few of them got away. Lol

@guyh.4553 6 лет назад

What do you use the roe for?

@sanman206 6 лет назад

eat

@ScientistFun 8 лет назад

Excuse me can you tel my what i have use for fishing and I'm from Portland Or. and where is the location is look very safe for beginning fisher.

@cadenwebb7600 5 лет назад

Scientist Fun right below bonniville dam on Washington side

@Jarom.M 8 лет назад

Are you bleeding them out? Do you plan on eating them? If so, what recipes do you recommend?

@PixsterTime 8 лет назад

Yes, I bleed them out. I usually can them with a pressure cooker. I have a few recipes for this. Two of my favorites: 1) BBQ sauce. Yeah, just add BBQ sauce to each jar. 2) Smoked. Use your normal smoke brine, smoke them for about 20-30min, then can them in the pressure cooker. Use 1tsp vinegar for all recipes per jar since this is the magic that softens the bones. If you go the canning route, experiement! Non-canning recipe I like: articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-03-25/entertainment/bs-fo-recipe-finder-baked-shad-20120325_1_recipe-finder-letter-and-recipes-place-shad

@Jarom.M 8 лет назад

Thanks!

@dustyrhinehart6958 7 лет назад

so your using a small unpainted jig with a bare hook, no grub or skirt and no bait? are you snagging them? or do they actually hit a bare hook?

@PixsterTime 7 лет назад

Yes...they bite an unpainted lead shad jig with gold bare hook.

@PixsterTime 7 лет назад

I just posted a video that answers your questions.

@dustyrhinehart6958 7 лет назад

Pixster Time thank you I think my girls would love to try this any decent spots? I am on I-5 close to the cowlitz.. thanks for your help again

@PixsterTime 7 лет назад

Not sure of your girls' experience with combat fishing, but if you go to Bonneville dam, I would recommend avoiding the weekends.

@kingme6839 5 лет назад

What does these shad taste like?

@PixsterTime 5 лет назад

It depends on how you prepare it. It's in the herring family, so white flesh that's very oily.

@ivankavorobets9285 8 лет назад

What bait/hook are u using?

@PixsterTime 8 лет назад

It's called a "shad dart". The particular one I was using weighed 1/16th oz and unpainted lead. Nothing else added to the shad dart.

@BigKahuna_outdoors 7 лет назад

How many shad can you keep? Only 5 here NC

@PixsterTime 7 лет назад

No limit in WA and OR.

@fishingns3935 7 лет назад

dam straight

@sethmorton8539 6 лет назад

No limit on the Mississippi between Illinois and mo st louis is good spot for blue cats

@fz1000red 6 лет назад

Big Kahuna that sucks man. The runs here are in the millions, and they are in no danger of extinction that's for sure. No limit here in Douglas County Oregon on the Umpqua River. I use them whole for halibut bait.