shads

[hotdog]

Alright fellas, Anyone had much experience using large shads, upto 10". I have some 20cm shads and would like to know what your thoughts are on the best way to rig them. I have seen some large jig heads, 8oz and 12oz and was thinking this would be the best way to go, seems a lot simpilar than using booms etc. Would be mainly using these in Norway, but would be intrerested to see how they are used over here.
Thanks in advance for any info.

[northeast1]

Never tried anything that size but had some cracking catches on 5" fishtek red shads, was gutted when i lost my last one as out fished anything else that month.

Always worth a try thou i would say 10" even abit big for the "big baits big fish" crack.

[christighe]

20cm shads will work great over in norway or even in local waters.
I have fished over wrecks locally with shads upto 25cms with great results,there is some huge cod and ling on our local wrecks which will take this size or even larger ones. My PB was a 32lb cod caught 16 miles off whitby with a 20cm blue shad.(this was tiny to this fish). As we all know there is some huge fish to be caught over in norway and they will definately take shads of this size or larger. The best way to rig them is with a 5-6ft flowing trace. Good luck in norway.

[willywetegg]

Some great advice there christighe, thanks for taking the time and welcome to NESA.

Jim.

[KeithB]

Had some canny fish on the Herring Storm Swim Shads, I found a boom just caused tangles, I just use a 3 way swivel with short length of line to a sinker and the shad on a 6ft trace. Hit the bottom the a dozen or winds up then repeat, don't stirke as you feel the fish grab just keep winding.

Caught fish on shads on days when the fish would take nothing else.

[big cod]

Alright fellas, Anyone had much experience using large shads, upto 10". I have some 20cm shads and would like to know what your thoughts are on the best way to rig them. I have seen some large jig heads, 8oz and 12oz and was thinking this would be the best way to go, seems a lot simpilar than using booms etc. Would be mainly using these in Norway, but would be intrerested to see how they are used over here.
Thanks in advance for any info.

One of my customers go the norway every year he said they are told to use the large shads but the lads had some 4" storm shads with them the skipper said dont bother with them they dont fish over here he had 6 cod over 20lb on the 4" storm shads the skipper was amaized some small shads fish far better than the larger ones we scale down to 3" an odd time and cod go mad on them but why the fish sometimes prefer the smaller shads some days is a mystery i wouldnt use 3" shads in norway but the 4" i would take with you to try.

paul.

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[hotdog]

Thanks for the info, will also be using smaller shads aswell, just interested in the best wag to rig em. Would it be okay to mount them onto a large jig head (10oz) then tie this directly to the main line? or would the heavy weight cause the shad to not work properly. I can see that a flowing trace, coming off a weight, with a lighter jig head, would cause the shad to work better in the tide, and this seems to be the prefered method. Just fancy using the large jig heads direct to the mainline.
Thanks once again.

[Mike.Haley]

I have found the best way to fish large shads is by using a " Portland Rig". Diagrams of this rig can be found in most sea angling mags.

[wildcard]

We have found the shads havent worked as well this year in the boats as previous years, bait fishermen have consistently beaten lure fishermen. The water inside has been cloudy for a variety of reasons though and shads usually outfish bait if the water is clear.

As Paul say the 4in shads outfish the 5in ones and anyone using anything bigger has usually soon scaled down or changed to bait.

I prefer to rig them from a tubi boom.
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Alan

[TheBigMan]

You'd be surprised at the size of the fish that'll jump on a big shad, the attached is a 10" shad. Landed at Scrabster last month.