My local lake feeds into a larger resevoir. At the bottom of our dam thousands of what look like Hickory Shad are stacking up. Trying to move further up the creek but are stopped by the dam. In some of the other creeks off the reservoir the same thing is happening. Is this right for this time of the year?

Looks like a spawning run.

Do they normally spawn this early? I thought this might be what they are doing but had not seen it in previous years.

They might be running early.  Weather lately has everything a little goofy.  Was in the mid 60s up here just this past Saturday.

70s in Central, Va all this week.

 

Would it be good for my Largemouth population to help these guys over the dam? I have a local shad population already in the lake but would more help?

Pretty sure moving fish is illegal.

Any idea where I could look it up? The reason would make sense with not wanting to introduce something foreign into an ecosystem. 

@J Francho I have found info but I am still sending VGIF an email because both the reservoir and lake are privately owned but are Va Stormwater BMP's.

 

Thanks for the information.

Anytime!