Shad, Cooking Them All Day 

If you cook them right they're good and they make great fish cakes. Thanks for Watching

That's fast, hope you enjoy them and Thanks for Watching

@@TheOldCoupleOutdoors yeah I make hot and sour soup. 1/4 c vinegar 2Tbs fish sauce after cook add 1 PKG firm tofu cubed and wood ear mushrooms chopped. Oh yeah cup or 2 of water to cook for 5 minutes. And Vietnamese noodles in bowls . So good. I also do this with salmon heads

Thanks, If you catch any American Shad try it, it's the easiest way to cook Shad. Thanks again for Watching.

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Shad are fun to catch our season starts soon. Thanks a lot for Watching our videos

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Were they American Shad? I didn't think they were still around, I guess some didn't move north out in the ocean. Thanks for Watching

They turned out good, all the bones were soft. If you get any American Shad try it.

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It works Gail

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Ours was a gift from our daughter but I saw it on Amazon. It works great.

It's something different, if you get it right all those bones get very soft.

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You're right, if you cook them properly they're good like you said a big sardine.

I don't know, the only fish we cook like that is Shad. Thanks a lot for Watching

Also fun to catch, Thanks a lot for Watching

Joyce polishes it every day.

Around the Sanford area, what they call Shad Alley, South of where you are. We caught 6 good size Shad today, cooking them now. Thanks for Watching

If the fillets are thick check them in 3 hours and add more water if necessary then check them every hour until the bones are soft. They cook faster in the fish cooker than they do in the foil. When we cook the Shad whole they usually take between 6 to 8 hours, that's for the big ones. Just keep an eye on them. Thanks again for Watching our videos

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@@TheOldCoupleOutdoors yes perfect

Don't give up you'll eventually find some good spots. Thanks for Watching

Beverley we do like Old Bay and we also use it in our crab boil. Thanks a lot for Watching

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We cook the shad that way because they have so many bones. Most fish you want to cook them fast.

That's the best way to cook them if you don't know how to bone a shad. Thanks a lot for Watching our videos

We troll for them in the St. Johns River using shad darts. We have a few videos showing how to catch them. The shad we catch are American Shad. Thanks for Watching

We didn't have any luck trying that, the bones were still hard, 250 degrees for 6 hours worked best. Thanks for Watching

@@TheOldCoupleOutdoors yeah I went about 45 minutes on 350 / 400 Degrees. Are you saying the way you did it you do not have to worry about picking through the bones and just literally eat them?

Right, just like you did warm the oven then turn it down to 250 for 6 hours then try them, sometimes we have to give it another half hour. All the bones should be soft like canned Salmon. Good luck

@@TheOldCoupleOutdoors oh nice definitely will do that next time.

@@TheOldCoupleOutdoors if you fry it is there a way to achieve the same softness with the bones?

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I mostly can Spanish Sardine shad in pressure cooker in Mason jars. Look it up. (shad, olive oil, garlic, olive, carrots, black pepper, bay leaf, I think that's pretty much it.) Shad has more omega3 oils than farmed salmon. It's mercury free and delicious.

I'm going to look it up, thanks for the tip. The best way I ever had shad was when I lived in New Jersey and was a commercial fisherman when I was young. We would catch shad in our net as a bycatch, I would take some to a local fish market, the owner would bone them and keep half the shad for doing it, what you end up with was shad filets with no bones, I can still remember how good they were. I never learned how to bone a shad because it was easier to let him do it. Thanks for Watching our videos