anybody get out and have a go at the shad? hoping to go in the next couple of days.thanks

I went to below Bonnie Sat afternoon and it was slow. Can't figure that out and I blame it on flow rates. Also, the water was muddied up some.

In other news, a friend went below John Day Dam last Friday and got a bunch.

I was down at Bonneville this weekend too and the shad fishing just plain SUCKED!

This is the traditional peak of the run and the dam counts were insanely high, but for some reason the shad just weren't biting on the WA side? We caught about a dozen or so each in an afternoon, but it should have been a fish every other cast like previous years.

My theory: The current created by the new smolt flume has radically changed the way the shad migrate over the dam on the WA side. That, coupled with the cloudy weather and weak current flow from the WA powerhouse added up to create lousy fishing conditions overall.