Just consider the life of a shad for just a moment. They must first make it to birth in the vast expanse of a river. The prospect of high-water events (as we prefer to call them around these parts because, we do not like the word “flooding”!) will create silt & erosion issues that will disrupt the entire river system during many crucial periods of a shads short life, starting at lowering the odds of every shad egg from even ever making it to birth.e.
Shad must overcome and endure incredible obstacles far beyond just ragging waters within their brief 3-4 year natural life cycle. They must survive as juveniles swimming down stream, through the brackish waters (fresh/salt water mixture under tidal influenced), out into the vast Atlantic ocean to then travel the eastern Atlantic sea board for a few years. They then will need to turn around and start the whole track over again by heading right back up the same river system again to spawn and eventally die, to successfully complete their natural life cycle.
These shad will have to survive twice the gauntlet through the masses of hungry predatory fish, birds, anglers and commercial stroller nets. And you think that you have it bad! Think again my angling friends!
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