STORM SHADS OR CALCUTTA - Which Shads Are Best ? What colours work best ?

[Baramundi Bob]

Just doing a bit of research for next summer. I am wondering what are the best shads to use for boat fishing for cod, pollock or any other species for that matter. What do the boat and kayak anglers here think ? Are shads any good for fishing around here ? what makes do you prefer ? Calcutta shads ? Storm Shads ? or another type. Any suggestions on how to rig them up and what colours are best for what species would also be useful ?

Thanks in advance - Glenn

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[smokey]

I prefer the blue ones for wrecking glenn,like a little mackeral pattern around 5",have taken cod and ling last summer on em.You should have a word with Killer,he knows how to rig em...tight lines

[Dav]

Yak funds building glen .........

[Baramundi Bob]

Just a bit of research Dav  Hopefully will pay dividends in the long run 

[Ringer]

storm shad's for me glenn.blue ones for the cod and orange for pollack.think down south it's the other way round with cod prefering orange and the pollack prefering blue.
had most of my fish last year on shad's and they were a better stamp of fish.
some day's the shad's were only catching one or two cod before they had to be changed due to damage,and other day's i used the same shad all day long.

[bigcod]

Blue for me with codling except in may when the algie is there a creamy yellow sometimes does the trick in the murky water pollock i would say the a firetail first time i saw what damage shads can do  to cod was a few years ago now when  1 guy chartered my boat for himself yes 1 guy now it was fun time for me so we started on a wreck 23 miles north of whitby it is one of those wrecks which is allways plastered in feed a good cod and pollock wreck and does throw 1 or 2 catfish out as well as the ground around the wreck isnt really hard ground more broken i had never used a shad before but had got into catching pollock on peice with  the firetails as we  aproached the wreck i noticed this guy had a 4" blue storm shad on his rig well i will just stick to what i know best the first 3 drifts over the wreck i had 3 cracking pollock 2 into doulbe figures and the other guy had 3 cod upto 10lb the cod wouldnt touch the firetails but it was only a couple of turns with the shad and the cod were at it  so after the first 3 drifts enough was enough  it was a quick changeover  on with a blue shad i was amaized just how fast the cod were hitting this  shad sometimes i think they had allready took the shad on the way down before it had hit the bottom they were mad for it that trip was the start of a new era for me but dont be fooled they dont fish all the time better in spring and early summer till the herring arrive then the ling just fall in love with them  but they do seem to start to fish again over  wrecks in winter if you have clear water but one thing  is for sure  they  have reverlutionized cod fishing for me and 99% of my regular customers they  love fishing with them on the very light tackle its great sport all the way.

[mouldybits]

yellow and rhubarb shads on an orange leadhead for good pollack 

[Ringer]

yellow and rhubarb shads on an orange leadhead for good pollack 

sound's like a dessert on a posh restaurant menu   

[mouldybits]

maybes how the fish see it lol i use mine witha roundhead leadhead with a vmc hook cast in it,works a treat!

[GJW]

I was grateful to my mate Darren, who gave me a run out in his boat from Staithes last summer, and we fished not to far out using shad's something i hadn't used for cod before that day, and we had a great evening fishing we were only out a few hours and had 25 or 26 cod all on the shads with Darren getting the best at 6lb but the rest of the fish were 3lb-4lb bracket it was great on light tackle and a nice evening's fishing, i found the mustad shads with the mackerel style or the blue ones worked best but sometimes they would come back with their tales bitten off.....

[Baramundi Bob]

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[Bassyken]

Know nothing about shads, collecting a few different  jellyworms together including big tiger twintails. Could someone upload a few pics of the different types available

Ken

[Baramundi Bob]

This is an interesting article Paul did on shad fishing.

http://www.sea-otter2.co.uk/shad-fishing.php



Below : a sea otter 2 customer with a cod caught using shads.

[Bassyken]

Thats a good article Glen but did I here someone say you can fish these with a lead head, any of the kayak lads to any good with them last summer?

[Shadrap]

What method of fishing shads/twin tails seems to work best on the boats,the traditional method of winding up "x" amount of turns or the "hopper rig" where the shad or twin tail is fished similar to a jigger?Likewise what method is successful when shore fishing? 

[GJW]

Shadrap..We found on the Boat fishing the shad 3ft-4ft under the lead on a flowing trace,, winding it up just of the bottom and jigging with it was best for the cod, I used them up Scotland from the shore last summer for Pollack and had a lot of success with them because they are weighted i just tied it on to a 3ft trace of clear 30lb amnesia, and cast it out on a spinning rod let it sink a bit then point the rod at the water reeling in at a steady consistant speed, i found this far more effective for pollack than winding a jerking the rod, like we do for mackerel.....

[Baramundi Bob]

Has anyone any experience of the flash foil swim shads from calcutta ? I think they are a little bit more expensive than storm shads but supposedly tougher.

[Ramrod]

Going back to the start of the post Glenn,I tried them on the yak with a long trace and a 5oz lead quite a few times and they failed miserably but I was very succesfull with 3oz leadheads used on their own and worked like you would a jigger.

[Baramundi Bob]

Just a lead head Ray - No jellyworm or anything like that ?

[Ramrod]

It was one I got off Andy B and looked like a Pink/Orange shad really but with a leadhead. I was nailing them but Lost it eventually, I was gutted  The lead head was the fishhead and was really polished and shiny if you know what I mean. I ,ll ask him to see if he has another and will post a pic.

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