SHAD Fishing Frenzy!! (NC Shad Run)

Carolinas trip Part 2
First time fishing for hickory shad was in east North Carolina. I really had no idea what to expect or how to fish for them. We ended up catching a bunch of fish and a great day on the water.
Location- Pitchkettle creek in North Carolina
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[@SCUMDOGFISHING]

Stinky 'ol SHAD. Some of the best freshwater bait known to man. 🎥🎣👍

[@dougscamo2032]

LOVE shad fishing! Used to go out during lunch in downtown Richmond and wear them out. I must admit I use smaller spoons however. Unfortunately don't live near the tidal rivers anymore. Watched 2 older guys using old doll flies on flyrods and they caught hundreds the last time I got to go! Whatever works, got to go with local knowledge! Good video!

[@brianhearon1930]

Yes,it's different everywhere possibly.I wear them out on Little Cleos....great catfish bait.

[@johnhyman3549]

I grew up west of Richmond, west end, always went to GreenTop to get my Shad Darts. Also caught them on the Rappahonick at Fredricksburg. There would be businessmen with ties on out in waders on their lunch hour wearing them out. great memories.

[@Rock_Wilson]

Yeah man! I'm about an hour up the neuse river from where you caught these! I can't wait to hit some of these shad in the next week or two

[@lead5s]

i like to take those home, vacuum seal em and freeze em and have some really good catfish bait on hand at anytime i need

[@timberryhill658]

@mugur de fluier how do you keep em lit?

[@MackinNC1]

Nice Video John. That campground is where I camp in the summer but hardly no one is there then. To hot and buggy. I did end up catching right many Hickories yesterday in another river with some over 3 lbs . Video out on that soon. Mack

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

thats awesome, ill be looking forward to it

[@KitebuildingGenius]

Now I've seen it all - this looks like loads of fun

[@joshuawilson8182]

Heck ya. That's awesome 👍. I've never been fishing for them. Looks super fun .

[@richardcraig8780]

That's the first video I've seen where someone was fishing just for shad. That's why I like watching your stuff.

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

thats one thing i plan to do is try new types of fishing

[@bobbybaer3803]

Love your vids man keep up the great work.👍🏻🔥🔥👊🏻👍🏻

[@kraigrasool2848]

Yes..creekbear is in the video...good to see you and a great fishing video!!😉😀

[@DAsh-wi1zc]

I find it funny the way you bring your fish in. Can easily imagine one of them yelling back, "Look, Ma! I'm water-skiing!" 👀😁😜

[@CarolinaBassHunter]

Definitely something different! Pretty cool to watch. 👍👍

[@robski461616]

I live in eastern NC. Take that shad, cut it up it chunks, and come back with it in April for rock (striped) bass in the Roanoke River!

[@andrewshuford]

Your gonna be the next Johnny Morris, glad you had fun, your a long way from Cleveland Tn. God bless.

[@danielgrandon2701]

Thanks for sharing. Found a nice group of guys to fish with today!

[@FishingWithChris_Tv]

Hickory shad/skipjack are very similar. The closest we have to them is skipjack. You can catch them nearly all the time below chickamauga dam when the water flow is below 45,000. We will have to make a trip down there once the weather straightens out.

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

we need to do that

[@firsttimecastingadventures]

Great day y'all slayed those shad tight lines for sure

[@wayned5872]

As soon as possible get some shad darts for shad fishing , filet & plank on cedar planks to cook & watch out for the very fine bones they are good eating, our season for shad up here on the Delaware river is just kicking off

[@timberryhill658]

Well I'll be I never heard of fishing for shad . The ones we cast net around here for bait aren't nearly that big. Thanks for sharing and the education. God bles

[@Jake-ky9ed]

Tim Berryhill bit different than a menhaden I think you cast netting.

[@nauticalnavigator3688]

I guess it is safe to say shad fishing is a special type of fishing few people know how rewarding it is

[@rell517123]

thanks for another awesome fishing trip Sir 👍👍✌

[@mikemiddlebrook416]

Now that was a really fun fishing adventure. Fun video. 😊

[@rippinlips5717]

Awesome vid man!🎣💪🇲🇾

[@ExplorishingAdventures]

Awesome! Shad fishing is a blast but it’s the crowds I have an issue with. We stopped down on the Cape Fear this weekend just to see what was going on with the American Shad run down there and they about broke out into a fist fight right on the boat ramp. Their fun to catch but I’m not fighting over them. lol

[@toguro5117]

Looks so much like a skipjack cant wait for them to start running.

[@Legallyblindoutdoors]

Seemed really fun ,they looked like they fight good, thanks for sharing

[@HicksHooks]

That's crazy you guys catch the Shad in the wooded areas like that! On the Potomac we are catching them in the seams in pretty fast moving water! Nice work! Tight Lines!

[@tenncutt]

Not a bad video for a guy out of his element!

[@HookedUpFishing]

those are some monster shad! Probably make great catfish bait.

[@josephnywayfarer1345]

Nice guys, nothing like fishing with friends

[@matthendrick3456]

Looks like a good time to me. I have never heard of those shad. Happy you got to catch some and thanks for sharing the experience!

[@fishinwithjimgronaw6224]

Some of the most epic and tiring days of fishing in my life were wading rocky streams in the upper Chesapeake region and catching 200-300 fish per man when the hickory shad run occurs, usually mid April in MD and Delaware. Along with those were a mix of smallmouths, channel cats, carp, white perch and sometimes walleyes would show up in the deeper pools. Stripers, too! Glad you got a taste of the shad gig. We always used light spinning gear and much smaller jigs called shad darts in 1/16 and 1/8 oz. Silver from the sea! Blessings!

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

thanks, i= that sounds amazing

[@pamark3688]

Wow- looks like so much fun!

[@timlacy2284]

John another great video , if you ever get a chance come to Big Sandy river near Big Sandy , TN in Benton county for the shad and White Bass run here in a few weeks . Thanks again .

[@jasonp5953]

That's cool have never seen fishing for shad awsome video

[@RobBassMaster]

John, nice shad fishing video... sweet! Blessings! 🎣👊🏼

[@coachcj9668]

That's something that I will put on my fishing bucket list. Really cool video! 👍😎👍

[@deanfirnatine7814]

We have HUGE numbers of the American Shad variety here in the Northwest that were transplanted back in the 1800's, a guy can fill a boat with a 100, not many know how to cook them here so they are used for sturgeon and crab bait or more often than not released, in a good year the Columbia River will have a run of 5 million. They are so fun.

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

thats so many fish

[@juanvaldez5811]

That was an awesome video, they look like Skipjacks. I know that was some fun!!

[@bellawright4265]

Watching this makes me think about big channel cats and flathead...and limb lines and jug lines. Lol

[@lead5s]

@ bella wright amen

[@monkeyman4131]

John, ya had a lot of "friends " in boats out there with ya. Still you did very good . I used ta fish for shad and yellow perch Spring runs in Maryland . All ways a great time early Spring / late Winter . Doing different types of fishing is fun. When people invite ya out this is really cool. Glad ta see ya doing so good. Keeping the faith . Tom Daytona Beach, FL.

[@TheOutdoorsVlog]

Awesome stuff man! Thanks for sharing 🎣

[@FishBerry90]

Looked like a great time man. Glad to see you out there trying new things 👍🎣

[@Texas_Red_01]

Those things kind of remind me of a tarpon, the way they look...

[@alexward1319]

Tennessee Tarpon

[@NickAndCaroline]

Yea tarpon just look like giant sardines or something lol.

[@alexward1319]

@@NickAndCaroline its a joke name for skipjack shad

[@ExplorishingAdventures]

Tarpon are a giant Shad.

[@justkeepfishingt]

There cousins

[@joelewandowski8232]

Sure looks like fun.

[@FSOutdoorAdventures]

nice video man! looked like lots of fun for sure!

[@missiondiscover]

Keep fishing, praying and preaching

[@adventureswithken1983]

You're in my neck of the woods now! I went shad fishing for the first time the other day. Its fun and something I'll be doing again.

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

Yeah it wS really interesting and fun, crazy watching so many boats and people catch fish the whole time

[@Shurmash]

Does this mean that shad are coming up from the Atlantic now? I know that big striped bass are soon coming through my city (Washington DC) chasing shad.

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

from what i learned the shad are just a little earlier than the stripe

[@aydenlilly8416]

Yup

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Farther South the earlier, your area probably April/May, mine May/June

[@mattwojo1610]

It's to bad that DNR made the law about ten years or so a go that u can only keep mud shad for bait in Maryland. No hickory or american shad not even herring. So if u are trying to catch stripers the best thing u can use is mud shad or live target herring swim bait.

[@rbishop12399]

spoon fishing 👍👍, nice video

[@kingkanephit8872]

I'm shad fishing tomorrow after work, I hear it's best after 8am but I'm in VA.. nice video man!

[@ownknow8161]

*Good fishing, brother!!!! I'd have kept some for eating and some for baiting bigger fish. ✌😎*

[@caydo300]

Love the videos

[@kerryward6896]

Hey creek, your my kind of people although i live in the great state of TEXAS we would get along all to well.. were both country, we love to fish, and we both love to fish where most people dont or wont go !! Id love to have some of those for these huge TEXAS cats !!

[@kerrypitt9789]

We don't have shad up here but I have read quite a bit about them. I bet if you smoked them then canned them, they would be pretty good!

[@GhostyPopx]

I'm going shad fishing later today, last time I went we caught nothing so let's hope I catch something this time lol.

[@mikemcelveen2973]

The shad are cookin now in the tailrace canal below Pinnopolis dam in Monks Corner SC. This is always been good fun for many years. Thanks!

[@daviddaigrepont9485]

Down here in Louisiana where we catch skipjack we also catch Crappie (Sac-a-lait) and White Bass (Bar Fish). They run together.

[@animetrash9110]

David Daigrepont how bout choupique

[@daviddaigrepont9485]

anime trash we don't keep bowfin

[@animetrash9110]

David Daigrepont they make good fish patties and stuffing

[@daviddaigrepont9485]

anime trash I thought they were full of bones??? But they are fun to catch. Fight like Tarpon!

[@animetrash9110]

David Daigrepont oh yes, they taste amazing

[@keiththomas8446]

That was a first for me too! But sure looked fun.

[@GoMidwestFishing]

Never fished them, but I'm going to try and net some this summer

[@bigblackmonkeyballs5273]

I live in NC and only heard about going for shad once or twice, never been shad fishing before, but now I want to! The video was super entertaining and fun to watch, keep up the good content. Tight lines and happy fishing 🤙🎣🤘

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

i saw hundreds of people out fishing, from boats, to river banks, on bridges

[@ScotWalt858]

All good!

[@TwinTroller]

Figured you would be Shad fishing when you said you were coming to NC to do some fishing this time of year.

[@MrColdwatercanyon]

Shad are fun to catch

[@sorinsandu6613]

right title: FRENZY! great job, man!

[@fishing569]

Those boats are loaded up on that creek!

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

yes they were

[@jvcyt298]

In the spring, in NJ, on the Delaware River, there is a shad run that I fished hard In the mid-80s. The one fish that I caught after three years of trying was a 5 1/2 lb Roe which is what they call the female shad. I fought that fish for 20 minutes while wading in knee-deep water filled with spawning toads as the sun was setting. It was a surreal experience.

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

wow thats an awesome story, thanks

[@tenncutt]

Sounds like the 80s...lol

[@lukewilson3271]

Nice day, I really need to get on the shad run some day.

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

it was a cool experience

[@bige5838]

Interesting video I didn't know anyone fished for shad unless they were using them for bait looked like fun

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

its a tradition out there, they go crazy about it

[@johnpuckett899]

Did you say you were Shad fishing they look like baby tarpon 👀 like a lot of fun

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Basically they are a giant Herring

[@rogerdickinson9335]

Awesome to see you having fun in NC, watch out for alligators lol

[@johnathansawyer8736]

Thanks so much for the video! I live close to there and have never been shad fishing! What boat ramp did you use?

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

Pitchkettle

[@cliffroberts5437]

Try American shad which are pretty much only from Delaware to Connecticut, I've caught them up to 7lbs,mini tarpon,believe the record is like 11bs,crazy fight especially on a fly rod

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

they say they get one in here every once in a while

[@theupstateangler]

Man you can do the same here with skipjack, same lures and all. Almost time for another creek wading smallmouth adventure.!

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

i want to go to a few creeks but im trying to be patient and get the weather right

[@funkeecowboy]

Great video! What is that big brown backpack you’re using? Looks like it holds a ton of gear, I need to find one!

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

it was just a backpack from walmart

[@CT15MK18]

Funny how that is skipjack here at home and hickory shad across the border lol. God bless you brother..

[@MackinNC1]

They are different species....closely related but different. Skipjack live 100 percent of their lives in freshwaterwhile hickory shad livein saltwater but spawn like salmon in freshwater.

[@cornbinder1970]

Skipjack is not in shad family actually. Skipjack is a herring.

[@MackinNC1]

@@cornbinder1970 That is true. I dont think anyone said otherwise. Both Hickory shad and Skippies are in the Herring family but the Hickorys Name Is Hickory Shad though not a shad. Confusing to many but lots of fishes names are confusing. Many think Hickory Shad and Skippies are the same but they are very different.

[@daviel6595]

He’s back 👍

[@johnmartin4332]

I live in SC. We catch American Shad in the Cooper River Diversion Canal at St Stephens SC and in the Tail Race Canal at Moncks Corner, SC. Called the "Poor Man's Tarpon". Where are you in NC???

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

pitchkettle creek

[@johnmartin4332]

@@CreekFishingAdventures thanks. Be safe with this virus thing!

[@patrickcotter945]

What time of year was this ?

[@juliewilkinson7364]

I was wondering what do u do with these fish. Are they for eating or for bait.

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

basically just to have fun fishing

[@MarkWilliams-rp7nb]

Some of those were nice sized , are those eater fish ? Amen ,great verse.

[@ronin36963]

I've had shad from the upper Delaware..the fish is good but bony..keep jus the big boys n ull be pleasantly surprised

[@walte99]

I've had pretty decent shad and I've had down right horrible shad. The shad roe is the deal though. Fry it up with some bacon and to many people, including myself, it is da bomb

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Yep good eating if you know how to cook them which many do not, bony. The huge Spring Shad runs up the Delaware River saved our Revolutionary Army, they had almost starved that winter and were not in fighting shape until they fattened up on shad, they have huge shad bake festivals in Virginia and Connecticut.

[@johantymer7406]

If you fry fish long enough even the bones are edible. Enough means 5 sec to becoming charcoal....lol

[@dmontekirtz8815]

Wat creek have u been to in rocky mount nc??

[@raulmedina8782]

What kinda spoon are u using ?

[@lukewilson3271]

I got to fish below Fort Loudoun this week end, ever fished there?

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

no i have not, do any good?

[@lukewilson3271]

@@CreekFishingAdventures we caught some white bass, some skipjack, some yellow perch, 1 yellow bass and 1 crappie, we also saw several walleye and sauger caught.

[@dougscamo2032]

Used to fish for stripers in the turbine discharge at Fort Loudoun and John Melton Hill Dam. I presume you can still catch 40+ pound stripers there on gizzard shad (not like hickory shad).

[@setthehookwithtlbroyles919]

Man big dog you wore those Hickory Shad out! I have never heard of those but I'm going to look into them now. Great videos as always keep on getting down!

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

its a crazy tradition out there, everybody goes after them while they are running through

[@justkeepfishingt]

Shad patties 😋

[@DMike54]

What action is that white rod you're using and weight of the lures you're using?

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

it was medium and 1/16 to 1/8

[@liljxmi1288]

What i wanna knw is what lures and jig size they were using i wanna go catch them shad for fututre summer catfishing

[@liljxmi1288]

Oh nvm seems that i have found out

[@hph.outdoors1850]

Will they bite little topwaters because that would be a blast

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

No I don’t think so

[@andrewkelton8481]

I'm going fishing for crappie on Wednesday. I have caught only a couple crappie my whole life. Could you give me some tips please. I love your videos🔥🔥🔥

[@jprizzle2604]

Andrew Kelton find brush piles or fish near a marina they will be there

[@andrewkelton8481]

@@jprizzle2604 thx

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

use light line and small crappie jigs on lige 1/32 or 1/16 jighead, fish slow and dont set the hook hard

[@MsKindaSorta]

They will be spawning as the water temps warm up. That means shallow flats with cover. Take lots of jigs because you get hung up a lot.

[@daviddaigrepont9485]

You didn't want to keep a couple for catfish bait?

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

i thought about it

[@brianforrest3377]

Pretty cool video look kinda like a swamp yall was fishing lol

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

yeah i didnt know it was going to look like that

[@blue-sc1se]

Don't think those are the same shad I'm used to seeing in east Tn lakes. They won't hit anything and if you were to snag one it would die immediately.

[@johnwilliamson2276]

Why are you guys throwing them all back?

[@mattschroeder8982]

Is that sport fishing only or do people also eat the Shad?

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

im sure somebody eats them, 90% sport i would say

[@johnhammond4194]

Did you meet uncle Steve while you were up there.

[@mizzle1788]

Uncle Steve !!! Only person I have ever heard of say Uncle Steve I live up by the falls lake neuse River region I've watched tons of Uncle Steve videos just to scout out new spots around here

[@johnhammond4194]

@@mizzle1788 yeah I watch his videos alot to, he is one of my favorites on KZbin.

[@hoosierbackoutdoors1237]

Cleaning up man!! Slow day?? Must be nice. Lol

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

haha, wait to you see the next videos

[@waucheesione2828]

You bringing any back home to catch some big cats on?

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

i thought about it

[@Jimtom933]

Craven jones or Lenoir county Nc looks like

[@mizzle1788]

Omg man I'm 10 mins away from there

[@fishing569]

Me too.

[@CreekFishingAdventures]

oh thats awesome