Shad spawn

Gonna be a later shad spawn I assume as well with water temps still hovering in the 60 degree range in a lot of lakes. Poor bass will be spawning into late June the way we are going. Bluegill spawn will be even later and shad spawn is on schedule for September I think.....

And Santa won't come see 'em til March!

I am curious for the guys that keep logs just how far off the water temp is right now than the same time in previous years. seems we are having heck getting over 65 and staying there water wise.

It needs to hurry up I keep hitting spots in the memory bank and there's nothing there

I'd be interested in that as well..

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Gizzard shad usually spawn when water temps are between 65- 70 on a warming trend, thread fin a little later about 70. I'm sure you already knew this though. I think this years spawn is about 3 weeks behind. But, fish are cold water creatures and will adapt... This weeks weather might put the water temps where they need to be to get things started. I'm curious what a marine biologist in this area would have to say...

Yes sir, the weather has been crazy this year. Conroe's main lake temp 3 days ago-64/65. Today 69 and rising fast. Shad should be spawning on the banks here any time now.

All spawns are cancelled this year!

Water is warming fast Belton was good to me yesterday found some 67-68 degree surface temps good black and sand bass bite.

Seems like that month behind stuff we had going on last year is still with us

Mark or someone else can you expand on the "typical" spawn of baitfish? As a fairly new angler I am still trying to figure that out. I understand most is based on the water temps.

Can you break down an avg year in chronological order? Something like below would help me tremendously. Thanks!!


Gizzard Shad--May,June Water temp 70
Shad--?? Water temp 65-70
Bluegill--July? Water temp?
Bream--July?

Saw a good shad spawn on Toledo last weekend. Like stated above, I think the fish adapt and the spawns will catch up to normal. But overall its definitely a couple weeks behind.

Certainly seems later this year than last on Grapevine.

I saw shad spawning on Waco this morning. Did not see or catch a bass around them though.

I seem to remember from past experience the shad spawn usually takes place when the bass are in post spawn (under normal conditions). We used to catch lots of bass gourging on pods of spawning shad. Throwing spinnerbaits and having shad bumping up against the blades is a tell tell sign the shad are doing their thing.

I have 64-68 degrees logged for a year ago this past week on Lewisville for the most part. On Tuesday I was still seeing 55 and 56 degree water in the morning. 57 and 58 on Fork early Thursday, the warmest I ended up seeing was 62.5. Insane for this late in the year. And brutal. We had 1 fish before lunch thursday, caught a few after including an 8-10 off of a bed. No moving bite to speak of. . .all caught on beds or fished reel slow.

Don't know if they were spawning, but saw plenty of gizzard shad shallow today at White Rock, swimming around in circles in some rocks by a north end boat ramp.

I went bow fishing Thursday night and saw a bunch of bluegills and bass on beds.

I'm sure its got something to do with global warming, call Al Gore for info.

Cedar creek is 68-72 lake always warms quickly in spring guess because it's more stained than other east tx lakes

The Mosquitoes seem to not be behind any! :-(

I called Al, he said fish don't spawn anymore because the use of fossil fuels have caused the planet's average temperature to rise to the boiling point of water. JK Al is a moron!

Shad spawn is happening now. Only a few area. This year has been strange I caught bed fish 55 degree water which is first for me. Mark more up in the creeks . They 're their and the sandbass. I had my son with me and we found up shallow yesterday evening.

Shad are spawning and thick at Cedar Creek.

In a normal year I would transition production from pre-bed-post spawn into the shad spawn but they're overlapping this year all over the South. Really interesting for me to view all of the different sub-species of shad ie...

should've noted I made these for someone in Texas this week.

Those will not work Curtis no eyes everyone knows a bait with no eyes is useless since bass will look them in the eye before eating them

I am not sure why we are worrying about the earths surface temp rising one degree when according to Al the Earth's Core is Several Million Degrees. It is closer to 9000 degress but with Al Math that is pretty close....haha
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppa...million-degrees

Mark, there was quite a large shad spawn going on at Fork last weekend. Something to see. Shad, bass, gar and carp all spawning in the same location at the same time.

Yes, huge shad spawn in certain areas of Fork over the last two weeks. Perch are spawning too. Topwaters...