TOP 3 Land Based SHAD Fishing Spots in RICHMOND VA!!! (My 1st Hickory Shad of 2024!)

[@thepauldixonOC]

Thanks for sharing the fishing spots in Richmond! Looks like they are moving up early this year.

[@ZackBostick]

For sure man! Happy to help :)

[@Jack-qj2tj]

Seen you 2x on the road been a fan of yours for years keep up the great work

[@ZackBostick]

lol! Thanks a lot Jack! Very much appreciated man

[@JArtMiller]

I’ve been looking for an intel source on the James shad run and I’ve found it. How late in the year is too late for shad in RVA? Subbed. Nice work.

[@ZackBostick]

Thanks man! The support is very much appreciated!! Shad pretty much gone. Flooded with herrin and some white perch. Lot of shad getting caught out in the bay at this point. Thanks again!

[@billdncn]

Another informative, great video. Thanks for posting.

[@ZackBostick]

Thanks Bill! Thanks for the support!!

[@awolfman2]

Thanks for sharing those spots. Love your videos btw. What about best spots for flatheads? I have never caught a flathead and I would love to.

[@ZackBostick]

Right now with the water conditions , great time to target them. If you don’t make it out now, can still catch ‘em good with pinned live bait and or float rigs. Many spots don’t have a specific name but the pipeline is always a great spot that has a name!

[@jamesbragg1621]

Great content. Thanks.

[@ZackBostick]

Absolutely! Thanks for the feedback

[@rivahsistah]

Great video! I’m hype AF🙌🏾

[@ZackBostick]

Hell yeah! Go get em!!

[@fishinfever]

awesome, im sure ill be out there this week. 👍

[@ZackBostick]

Hell yeah man get on em!

[@garygould2194]

I love your channel I live inland around Danville, but I want to do more fishing from Richmond to Chesapeake

[@ZackBostick]

Love to see comments like this! Much appreciated :) yea Danville isn’t too far! Cmon and catch some and lmk how you do

[@jmoneyband13st75]

That high wall is where the Annabel Lee was. A little way up from that wall there is another more private dock and a yacht. There are also a few more fishing spots but he will chase you off his dock. I have been chased off in my 20's more than once. 😬

[@waterpatterns]

gave it a shot late morning. Barometric is whack today. I didn't find anything, but I got my baitcaster dialed in for a shad spoon, so there's that. hahaha

[@ZackBostick]

Dailing it in for a spoon is for sure an accomplishment haha! Might have to redial to take all that wind off. I haven’t been out since the day of this video. I’ll have to get back out and see if I can grind out another! Good luck to ya man!

[@waterpatterns]

@@ZackBostick You too, see you on the river. Tomorrow, I'm heading to Smith Point Va (little Wicomico River/Potomac/Chesapeake Bay). Hoping some fish have found their way out of the CB Deep. Striper spawn many be on?

[@nd-xx9cd]

Thanks man. This is really helpful info. What time of the year do you start targeting stripers in the river? And what time of the year do you start going for Flatheads on artificials?

[@TheCrispyFishGuy]

I've been told it is after the first good river flood in mid to late march because that allows the flats and blues to move further up the river

[@ZackBostick]

No problem at all! Happy to help :) striper are here, not in huge numbers. Not to mention the resident striper. Flathead, yes, want to wait for that good rise in water. They are around all through the river but when it floods they seem to group up and hunt together. You can still catch them with different conditions but that’s what I look for!

[@nd-xx9cd]

Thanks man. This is helpful. I never realized it was dependent on river level rising due to spring rains. Always assumed it was more closely tied to bait.

[@deonoledoux7143]

great info

[@ZackBostick]

Thanks!

[@jimmygreen671]

Quickly becoming my favorite KZbin channel. Great info,great presentation. I'm goin there (from Williamsburg) cause of you.

[@ZackBostick]

That’s the type of comment I love to see! Thanks for the feedback and happy to be of help :) if you’re coming from Williamsburg right now (soon) know that they aren’t here in numbers. But either way, thanks again and let me know how you do! Thanks Jimmy!

[@LB-xr3em]

Great video. I wonder if the shad are lower down the James River by Ft. Eustis, Newport News. Can you eat shad?

[@ZackBostick]

I’ll say this, they have to pass there to get here. People mostly eat the roe out of em, as far as the fish itself, not really.

[@waterpatterns]

Noice. Gonna hit this afternoon in the rain.

[@salfrat55]

Feb shad.... Smh. You're a beast!

[@ZackBostick]

Haha thanks man! Much appreciated!

[@silverbucket8046]

What's up bud! Are they thick there yet? You gta come down to Petersburg this year!

[@ZackBostick]

Hell yeah man! Def picking up now. How Petersburg going?

[@68DMag]

14th street pipeline is a great spot

[@WAEofFishing]

NO FRIGGIN WAY YOU HOOOKED ONE! HOLY CRAP

[@ZackBostick]

lol! Thanks man. If you watch the rest of the video, I actually caught and landed one :)

[@charlesmartin2323]

It’s the painters pants for me

[@ZackBostick]

Man you know it cuzzzz!

[@kevintaylor354]

Nice

[@ZackBostick]

Yessir! See you out there

[@chrisclemons9943]

I’m going fishing tomorrow 3/26/24

[@ZackBostick]

Always a good thing! If it’s in Richmond, water conditions aren’t too favorable. Good luck either way Chris!

[@WAEofFishing]

I have not been fishing either! This is a good vid. I have NO issue with this. BUT... if a certain someone from a certain agency who is doing his actually job did this. People would be trying to literally fight him. 1000s of peeps down there partying, no secret. I should tell you about the time i almost got flipped in my yak at the high wall. LOL

[@ZackBostick]

Sorry Wae, what do you mean? I’m not sure what you’re referencing. Someone almost ran you over out there?

[@WAEofFishing]

@ZackBostick naw, I avoided a bass boat. But like an idiot, I didn't consider the reflected wave off that wall. A 2' wave hammered me and I lost gear and almost went in. Ppl laughed, it sucked!

[@steev4952]

👍

[@anthonygray8613]

Am going Sunday

[@ZackBostick]

Hope you got on em!

[@anthonygray8613]

@@ZackBostick no 3 lol tried gold silver chart white small spoons medium spoon in large tried different leader length water was lil muddy

[@bigrob351]

Hell 2 the yeah....damn this Winter has been a total bitch...cant wait to hit the Riva.

[@ZackBostick]

Hahaha amen! See you out there!

[@askmike515]

Now compare how Ancarrow's looks three weeks from now 🤣

[@ZackBostick]

Hahaha I think I did something similar last year or the year before. But sure enough, yeah it can get crazy!! Hope all is well Mike

[@egomaniac247]

I always felt kinda sketched out walking around up there and near ancarrows. Maybe I'm just a wuss :)

[@ZackBostick]

USUALLY….during the day isn’t too bad, during the week. Sometimes I will go to the next spot lol

[@jrossjr98]

Its the slave trail

[@bpbikes]

I appreciate you talking up the trashcan use but spraying paint garbage aka graffiti on public property is not cool.

[@ZackBostick]

You’re more than entitled to your opinion. I don’t condone destruction of property but do appreciate art. It’s a grey area.

[@SuperIslandboy11]

Do not watch this video of him driving while driving’. It’s doozy lol

[@ZackBostick]

Man, if you don’t stop with that! lol HMU sometime Rob

[@SuperIslandboy11]

You don’t know me anymore since making it big time!