To weight or not to weight? That is the question

Jasper Johnson

-“Hook Up”-

Well it’s summer, and while you are out on the water I’m sure you have seen the shad busting the top trying to get away from those hungry predator bass.

 

As I mentioned in one of my earlier articles, the shad spawn happens earlier than does the bass spawn, so those shad that were spawned early this spring are now about 4-6”, depending on the availability of their forage. When you have 4-6” shad busting, it’s probably 3-4 pound bass after them. 

 

Quite often the bass hits the school of shad at full steam and stun as many as they catch in their mouth. Those stunned shad simply float down in the water column until they recover or are eaten by the bigger bass under the school.