11.May: Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there.

I pulled up behind Bart's at 11:am. There was a good crowd, almost a dozen shadaholics, working the bank upstream of the RR bridge, and Bill C was landing one as I set up. By all accounts, the shad were in today. The water was up, and backing up through the storm drain flooding the road under the RR bridge. The current was excellent, water clarity wasn't bad, the surface temp was about 59ºF, and there wasn't much debris in the river. The water was still rising even when I left after 3:pm. In sum, about perfect!

About 11:30 I had my first hook set. A decent buck, caught close to shore, he put up a decent fight. About 15 or 20 minutes later, I had a good hit way out past mid-stream. It fought well, and eventually we got a nice fat roe in the net. After a Kodak™ moment, she went back into the drink. And about 12:Noon, I got hit again, out past mid-stream, eventually landing another nice roe. We had our Kodak™ moment, and she went back into the river.

Terminal tackle: 1.5 oz drail over a 4'+ flouro 10# leader, and a hammered silver leaf in Bill C's candy corn pattern (#2 leaf), and Dylan's candy corn pattern (#3 leaf).

Tomorrow is supposed to be a lot like today in terms of weather, so I'll be back. Tight lines!