Weirdest day fishing ever....so far.

[WaffleJaw]

Strangest day ever on the lake yesterday with my Dad...We noticed seagulls hitting shad all over the lake...Fish those areas with no success,so we moved on...We went into a cove that is hidden on the other side of a broken bridge...Beautiful area.When we pulled in there had to be about 300-400 seagulls going nuts all over place...Feeding frenzy..
The entire area,about 3-4 acres give or take..was completely full of shad
Im talking every direction..You couldnt miss em.
We know this not only by the birds,but also the fact that we were foul hooking them with every other cast!!...I didnt matter what,or how we threw,we were hooking shad...Its wasnt a ball,it was a sea of them!!...Niether one of us had ever seen anything like it!
Some lures even came back with up to three shad on them!!

Heres some pics...I stop counting after 26...I think my Dad got about 17.
And not a single ''real'' fish was caught
Guess they were full.

I think i had 6-7 cast in a row that hooked shad....It starting getting retarded and irritating.
And completely nuts
My first fish of 2010.....Is a baitfish,hahaha

[BassinNC]

Wow that's crazy. I've hooked some before but nothing like that.

[BigBassin144]

Man, that is crazy!

Oh, and what lure is that in the first picture?

BB

[WaffleJaw]

Originally Posted by BassinNC

Wow that's crazy. I've hooked some before but nothing like that.

Yea we tried everything to avoid them it was so bad,and thick with them..I started crawling my Rat'l Trap and whenever I poppped the tip..I would feel the vibrations on the line and knew that I had one on...
The picture of the spoon was my Dad's lure..It hooked three of them on a single treble!!!...You can vaguely see some of the seagulls going crazy in the background on that pic..Thats where we started and drifted that far away and were still hooking them...

BB- That was a Johnson spoon I believe.(Dad's)..We both started throwing them to match the flash of the shad....

That place could have been a goldmine if we had gotten there a few hours eariler!
Every species of fish had to be near by,haha

[3dkicker]

They school up like that on Buggs when they spawn. You can't help but catch them and bass fishing is tough when the school fills entire coves. What's the water temp?

[WaffleJaw]

Originally Posted by 3dkicker

They school up like that on Buggs when they spawn. You can't help but catch them and bass fishing is tough when the school fills entire coves. What's the water temp?

The water temp was around 40-46ish..We had the battery die on the boat (low water level,oops) and lost power to the depth finder and TM pretty early in the trip,But I remember it reading like 43...

and yea we were skunked on bass.

[MallenManson]

Looks like a Bass buffet for sure