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bogtrotter:
to Manitron for letting me know the shad run had started up the CT River a couple weeks ago.

We couldn't take advantage of it until now, but today my younger son and I drove down to Chicopee and fished the Chicopee River for a few hours.

Beautiful day - - sunny, blue skies and about 60 degrees.  The water was a bit high for my taste, but not bad for this time of year.

I did a bit of small mouth fishing with worms early on (while my son concentrated on shad from the beginning), but didn't turn up any, so I switched over to targeting shad with darts, leafs and spinners.

We lost quite a few shad darts and maple leaf lures, but eventually my son hooked and landed his first shad (a 17" specimen).

 We also made a side trip to Arnold's Meats and bought a couple pounds of alligatorvv for a fantastic stew recipe that my wife makes.

manitron:
Happy to help Jim. Nice to hear your son caught his first shad. I have never caught one but it's on my list.

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