Think all you want,that hook isn't even close to being big enough.

Yeah, your right about the hook. I left the 10/o in my other box. I wasn't planning on using shad this large!

i use to catch big gizzard shad off the catwalk, you know the long concrete wall directly below the dam. Your not suppossed to be there. but wth, i did it anyhow. I've caught some real nice one's. I dont recall what time of year it was tho. And that hook was way too small for a chance of hook up. Not being a smarta$$ but you'll have better luck of a hook up with a larger hook

You shouldnt tell me things like that! I can see my butt getting hauled off by the Brazos River Authority and the Game Warden all while crying about just wanting some live bait!

Learn to throw your net sitting down in your yak ,it makes it a lot easier.
Ron

that would probably be the best option

Couldn't find any shad and man was today windy.

The stretch below Whitmey is pretty 'carp stirred' dingy, the color probably not helped from the lack of any generating's clearer water.

Fish bit, but as it's January, the bite was slow.
We shouldda tried more with noisy cranks and big blade spinners. But we didn't.

Had a blast fishing with my brother, who is one funny mf'er, most the day.