I went out behind Bart's last night for a couple of hours. The regular crowd was packing the bank, and a couple of shad were on a stringer. Lots of alewife tail flips to observe while walking up, too. The water is dropping slowly, there was good current, and it was nice and clear. Surface temp was ~62°-63°F.

On one of my first casts, I had a nice hook-set on a shad for the first time for me in a week--it's been slow. We sparred for a little while, it made a few short runs, but as I reached for my net, the terminal tackle came sailing back at me. After that, I couldn't avoid the alewives to find the shad. C'est la guerre. At least I got to play one for a bit.

I'm hoping the water drops enough over the next couple of days to start hitting the Bissell. I keep hoping the bigger roes show up, too.

Terminal tackle: 1/2 oz drail over 3' of flouro, and a Crayola box full of colored willows. The alewives lined up at the buffet but the shad, not so much...

Tight lines!