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Old 05-06-2017, 06:50 PM
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I was fishing for trout today and couldn't believe My eyes when shad started trying to jump up the damn. Quite a few and very hearty fish. Has anyone here ever known of shad in the Rahway river before?
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Gizzards.
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Yep, yep........ Gizzard Shad! great cut bait!
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Old 05-07-2017, 07:29 PM
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Yep, yep........ Gizzard Shad! great cut bait!
Aren't gizzard shad small? These fish looked to be 4-6lbs.
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Old 05-07-2017, 08:13 PM
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Adult gizzards are big. I've caught them below the dam at Milton lake. They're def gizzards.
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Aren't gizzard shad small? These fish looked to be 4-6lbs.
All fish are small at one time. Gizzard Shad have the potential to grow pretty big.

Maybe they were White Suckers. Sometimes those fish move upstream when they spawn.





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Old 05-08-2017, 08:15 AM
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Gizzard Shad,....aka: Slimeballs.

NJDF&W investigated several years ago.
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