Dan-o, you can get shiners by the pound at the Mill street bait house in Lewisville.

Shiners cost $$ and shad are free. If you're in the DFW area and traveling north to the big pond there you shouldn't pass up a resourse like free shad, IMOP. I'll prove it to you come Saturday

That is unless your a old fat guy like JD and just don't want to go throw the net. Then you have a excuse - sort of...

Hey now...I am not taking shad to Texoma this weekend - going to get those cheap big shinners from the local bait shop...and yes...I do NOT want to throw that net :):)

Not fishing the tourney, but plan to stop by the weigh in...see you there !!!

Old and fat...I resemble that remark...Shad are not free..consider the time and gas your spending to get out and catch them..

Holzer, Ive got your old and fat next time i see you dude
Im gonna beat ya like a dog and roll ya like a wet diaper

Speaking of which..you still changing diapers ?? I did this weekend on my grandson..Brought back alot of meomories

The Tackle Box sells them to guides for 1/2 price. Of course they probably use a lot more than the average Joe.

every one has a great opinion, love to take all my grandbabies fishing and hunting keep up the good advice. hope to see ya'll out fishing

How about using live/cut perch or live goldfish for bait?

so i call up a friend up by texoma and tell him i wanted to go fish, and i offered to bring some bait up there and he told me no, and told me its illegal to transfer fish from one lake/area to another...

I've never had luck taking foreign shad to any lake, not ray hubbard, lavon or fork. Then again, operator error could have been a big factor, but with fork I caught some out of there and would drop both down and catch the dog out of catfish and bass off the natives. it's all about the smell, which can differ from lake to lake

Doesn't matter what lake there from, they will eat them right now. If your buying shiners near the lake you had better call ahead to see if your bait shop has them (out of them last trip up), I had to buy black salties and they ate them just fine.

If shad are as hard to find of Texoma as said, foriegn bait like Shad, Shiners, Ghost Minnows & Perch should all get eaten fine.

It might be illegal to transfer game fish but I would not think it is illegal to transfer non-game fish. If it was there would be a lot of people in trouble and guides losint licenses.

If they will eat shiners from Arkansas they will eat shad from anywhere plain and simple. If they don't like em live cut em up. If you still have trouble...... it's not the bait.