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JerryC
04-16-2013, 10:37 AM
Received this email from the Lewis report yesterday... enjoy!

Windy night tonight. It was coming up from the south so the water was choppy. Made it a challenge to row the boat out. River was at 2.13' and 56F. Nice enough looking haul but still cool and mostly overcast. Finally got the net in and was rewarded with 164 shad (returned 112, 30 bucks and 22 roe). In the mix were also 3 catfish, 1 sucker, 30 gizzard shad and 2 walleye. In the last 10 years (these are the easiest records for me to look at in this detail) our top three hauls were 65 (2010), 45 (2003) and 39 (2012). The 164 number also is more then we have caught in 6 of the last 10 years. That gives us an unofficial total of 251 so far this year. That would be 4th when compared to the last 10 years. I could go on, but it's late. We'll be at it again tomorrow.

Almaink
04-16-2013, 11:25 AM
I gotta go try this Shad fishing.

JerryC
04-16-2013, 12:17 PM
It's a lot of fun, they fight well which makes fishing fun.

kcritch
04-16-2013, 12:49 PM
It's a lot of fun, they fight well which makes fishing fun.

Where abouts on the Delaware do they do that netting?

JerryC
04-16-2013, 01:38 PM
Where abouts on the Delaware do they do that netting?

i think around the lambertville area

kcritch
04-16-2013, 01:57 PM
i think around the lambertville area

That's a great answer....I am only about 25 minutes from there! I have never done the Shad thing and didn't know how far up they would be this time of year.

Thanks for the reply.

JerryC
04-16-2013, 03:01 PM
That's a great answer....I am only about 25 minutes from there! I have never done the Shad thing and didn't know how far up they would be this time of year.

Thanks for the reply.

This is about average for the run this time of year.. last year was a bit earlier by a week or 2..

bunker dunker
04-16-2013, 03:31 PM
Great News!!!!! Come On Weekend

FASTEDDIE29
04-16-2013, 04:33 PM
Drag Ripping Nj River Steel!!!

Capt. Lou
04-16-2013, 05:21 PM
Your safe fishing well into the Worthingyon area for sure !