Columbia River Shad Fishing - Preparation & Lessons Learned for 2022

In this video, I head to the Bonneville dam for the annual shad fishing trip. I show how to know when is a good time to head down, and where to look it up. I provided preparation tips and what you need to try out this fishery. More preparation details can be found on my blog that is linked below. It was a humbling experience this year, since I expected another catch every cast like prior years when the counts are high. I noted a bunch of lessons I learned this trip to make future trip more successful. Let me know if you have any questions below, thanks for watching!
Blog Link: kawfishing.com...
Shad Count Link: www.fpc.org/cu...
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[@iamalemontree]

Great video!

[@kylei8200]

Where did you get the whaly 500r in puget sound! I want one so bad im in victoria BC and cannot find a dealer in western Canada or North Western USA.

[@luvtrump8658]

Is shad fishing still good for beginning of July?

[@KAWFISHING]

I would check the counts to see, anything over 100k should be good.

[@luvtrump8658]

@@KAWFISHING thank q! I’ll take a look!