Now here is a dumb question

[Bigbill]

ok so i have a throw net and catch shad for drift fishing for blues on Grand, normal ops. Here is the stupid question......i have seen alot of this years shad hatch up in my favorite cove on stockton, have any of you ever used small shad for bait and used them as you would minnows for crappie? Now that you have picked yourself up off the floor from laughing, i would like to hear your opinions on this matter. Seems to me they would work really good this time of year.

[Bigbill]

lol see 15 views already and your all laughing so hard you cant even type.....Rofl

[Kit Papermouth]

Eufaula Boy uses shad a lot. Hard thing is to keep them alive. They aren't very hardy on a hook and they don't stay alive long in a minnow bucket. Need a large volume of moving water to keep them alive in a boat. They can't be beat for bait.

[Bigbill]

I have a shad box we use when hybrid fishing or catfishing. I caught a shad last friday in the bait ball that was under the boat last friday night ( had the old green light out ) put him on the hook and sent him down. It didnt even make it to 10ft when i had one on thats what got me wondering about it. I have always just used minnows, Is keeping the shad alive the big stopper for everyone?

[Hogster1]

I have a shad box we use when hybrid fishing or catfishing. I caught a shad last friday in the bait ball that was under the boat last friday night ( had the old green light out ) put him on the hook and sent him down. It didnt even make it to 10ft when i had one on thats what got me wondering about it. I have always just used minnows, Is keeping the shad alive the big stopper for everyone?

I would say yes otherwise they would be the perfect bait.Natural food source that crappie love.Just to hard to keep alive

[beagle man]

we use to all the time,,, need a round barrell, or big live well,,,, eaven dead if kept real cold they make good crappie bait,, a crappie in my opinion will eat a dead shad as fast as they would eat a live one,,, Ie, we fish below the gar feeding or the white bass feeding and catch crappie eating the dead shad, go for it

[olesilverside]

I don't try to keep them alive, but in the summer months and the new hatch is out of shad, I use the 1 1/2" tube jigs in white/silver flake tail, or blue/white with flake, or black/white with flake and it looks like the shad and works quite well for me, and I can keep them jigs alive easier.....

[Bigbill]

Thanks for the input guy's, i will let you know how bug and i do this weekend with them. Dead, alive or half dead we are going to give it a try.

[crappiedave55]

been known to snatch one off the top of the water every now and then,makes real good bait.seen times they would eat a shad and would'nt touch a minnow

[gabowman]

I've caught a few in the lights while nightstalking before. They caught fish but didnt seem to do any better than the minners. Like already said, hard to keep alive even on the hook.