Nice informative reports.
I have not fished for shad in many, many years. I did start fishing for them at Bart's and eventually moved up to the Enfield Dam where we used to fish for them down the ladder, on the narrow ledge - great fishing from there at the time, although not really recommended.
I look forward to your reports just to relive the good old days when we had a fish on almost every cast. We used the shad darts at that time.