Special Message About River Shad

 Sent me on April 6 from Jim Stabile:

Hello Everyone,

What a gray foggy day it was most of the day today. Never got as warm as they said last night. I think we only made it to the mid-60's. Didn't hold out much hope for fish tonight. On the plus side we got a new roof on the fishing cabin. We'll stay dry when it does rain again. Anyway there were a couple boats under the bridge but there didn't seem to be much activity. We still had the 200 yards of net on and the river temp was down a degree to 49F. The height was also down a little to 2.4'. The net went around the point hard again to night and we were bringing in a bunch of sticks. We didn't see any activity in the net and it was acting like a water haul until the very end when we started to see shad swimming around. Once we got it all in we had a quillback and a total of 39 shad. 3 bucks, 6 roe and we returned 30. Quite the surprise. The weather looks bad for tomorrow. This is the earliest we have caught more than 30 shad since 2003, the first year I have records detailed enough to show me that.

 

Rain is forecast to start overnight and then there are thunder storms predicted to start about 2pm and go until 6pm and the rain continue until after midnight. Looks like the best chance to to get in the water again is Friday. I'll keep you posted on what we are doing.

 

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Take care and stay safe,
Steve

 

Steve Meserve
Lewis Fishery
1 Lewis Island
Lambertville, NJ 08530