Don Harris

Thanks for the reply. I agree with your comment. I threw a swim jig and a weightless senko in shad color probably 100 casts and never got touched. It was truly an unbelievable sight. We moved down lake and they were doing it there too. I did catch a 3-4 pounder near where they were after we moved but it wasn't right where they were breaking the surface. It was maybe 150 feet away. I'm going back tomorrow. We'll see if there are any active again. If so, I will throw a spinnerbait and crankbait as you have suggested.

I was at Pickwick Monday late in the afternoon and everywhere we went there were large shad (gizzard shad I'm guessing) exploding on top of the water. At first I thought it was bass feeding on top, but it seemed to be hundreds of shad jumping out of the water. They would do it right against the side of the boat. If you threw a lure, they would swirl around it but never actually grab it. I have never in 40+ years of fishing seen this happen at the scale it was happening. Literally, at the back of a large creek, the entire width of the water was exploding with shad. Any ideas what this is all about? Just curious what the cause might be. Thanks in advance.