April 13, 2015 – Murky water, lots of shad

Yesterday afternoon greeted us with a much needed slug of water that gave us murky but fishable river this morning.  Hickory shad were spread out in all of the slack water areas.  If you could aim a cast around the debris you could catch a fish.  Slow, deep retrieves worked best and gave the shad a chance to see and catch up to the darts.  Slightly too much current to effectively jig for stripers.