Bank Fishing Columbia River Shad + Hooked A Salmon
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Published 2024-05-24
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American Shad are a popular late spring and early summer fishery on the Columbia River. Large numbers congregate below lower Columbia River dams and can easily be caught by bank and boat anglers. There is no limit and a fishing license is required to harvest shad. On this day I average 10-15 shad per hour plus hooked a King Salmon that made for an interesting start to the day.
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All Comments (21)
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I never kept Shad until about 4 years ago when I came across a pickling recipe by YouTuber age of Anderson. Nowadays, I keep 10 Shad and thats plenty enough.
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Salmon on the okuma is crazy
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I keep shad for bait as well. I have a cooler that says “SHAD” because once you use something to carry dead shad, it’s pretty much worthless for anything else.
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It’s getting to be that time. Thanks again, Tyler.
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Been fishing for shad sent 1989. Always have a great time. One year over 7 million through the dam. Largest run of shad in the world. I have caught them on the 4th of July. will be there 2 or 3 times this year. Stay safe.
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Awesome fun. I may have to stay on this side one more day and have some shad fun
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Awesome fishing day man, love your positivity 🤩! I'm glad to see that those other fishermen do not bother you even though it is obviously seen that they were trying too💯! Loved the video💙, keep them coming👍! Watching you all the way from Kazakhstan 😉🖐
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Fished the Bonneville back in ‘70-‘80’s for shad with my grandpa. Picked up a peculiar way of fishing for them from the Vietnamese. He would pickle and can them. Better than canned tuna.
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A plain jig head with the gold hook works great on a sunny day. Flicker spinners too, size 0
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They are very good crab bait. We run half and half in our bait boxes of shad and chicken, the seals don’t seem to tear up the traps like they do if you use salmon or steelhead heads. Springers this year was dismal. 3 trips and landed only one. Total of two take downs, 3 losses and one landed in 3 trips. Tight lines!
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I love shad fishing!! I started using bobbers for shad about 10 years ago, it’s a whole lot of fun. Just cheap bobbers and whatever jig you want. Just have to stay away from the crowd. It’s definitely helped with losing gear though
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Funny I usually go to the willamette for shad and the Columbia for chinooks these days.
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This was interesting. I have been meaning to fish below Bonneville for shad but haven't been able to get away to do it. It looked like a blast. Nothing like fish in abundant numbers that are super willing to hit a lure. I was interested to see you fishing the Okuma lightweight rod as I recently bought one except it is 6'6" instead of the 7'6". It seemed to work good for you which makes me feel good about my choice. Thanks for the video.
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These make great strip bass bait.
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😊Like it Milt....I will be there soon. Love shad....not just good bait....cook it and eat it outdoors so you can spit bones.....tastes good.❤
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Didn’t know they had Shad runs in the pacific; my dad caught one back East in the Delaware river a couple of weeks ago in New York State!
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It's time to see a dinosaur video yay!!
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Pickled shad, love it!!!
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They are fun on fly rods
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When I first watched this video I swear he said that a fishing license wasn't required for Shad in WA. Not sure if he uploaded a new version with that clipped out or I was just hearing things, but after researching you do in fact need a valid license (unlike for carp and smelt). So, if like me you were planning on taking the whole family to go fish without licenses, you might want to re-think that. 😢 This applies to both WA and OR.
