“It’s better this year than it was last year. Nickels said this run has been an exceptional one. “They’re a hard-fighting fish on a 5-weight rod they jump just like tarpon.” “Shad fishing is definitely increasing in popularity with fly fishermen,” Nickels said. He was doing just that Friday with another veteran saltwater flats fisher, Phil Woodham. “And I even noticed one fish camp was sponsoring a shad derby, so interest in shad fishing seems to be reviving there.”Ĭaptain Scott Nickels is a fly-fishing guide who specializes in catching redfish in the Indian River Lagoon network.īut during the shad run, he’ll sometimes sneak off to the St. “The Puzzle Lake area is probably the best place for shad fishing,” McBride said. Rather than troll tandem spoon/jig shad rigs as the old-timers did, they’ll beach their boats and cast from the shore. Their parents don’t want to take them fishing.”īut upstream, where the river narrows and becomes a mass of twists and turns known as Puzzle Lake, there’s a new breed of shad fan: the fly-fisher. “But then overall, we see that decline with all types of fishing,” Schroeder said. Johns.Īt the Marina Isle Fish Camp, Bill Schroeder said the percentage of people coming to his camp to fish for shad is “very low.”Įach year during the spawning run, which runs from December through April, he sees fewer familiar faces. With the evolution of the bass-fishing craze in the 1970s, the interest in shad waned along the St.
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