First fishing trip of the year

[spotfin]

Finally got out yesterday to wet a line. Went a few minutes from the house where a stream dumps into a river. Caught an alewife and a shad

 

[cichlid fiend]

Good stuff!!

What's a alewife?

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

Good stuff!!

What's a alewife?

its a baitfish like shad and herring

 

[spotfin]

An alewife is a river herring. Same family as shad and blueback herring.

 

[cichlid fiend]

An alewife is a river herring. Same family as shad and blueback herring.

Good looking out cause i dont fish much for anything but bass and chain pickeral.

 

[Rockbass6]

You really caught that on hook and line? Should of used the shad for bait, and waited for the monsters to swim by.

 

[Snakes to Cichs]

I can't wait to get out to my favorite rivers (Arkansas and South Platte). Going next weekend.

 

[spotfin]

You really caught that on hook and line? Should of used the shad for bait, and waited for the monsters to swim by.

Yes, used a really small panfish jig. Most fishermen use here use weighted flies.
Alewives are smaller than shad; most any monster up here is going to target the alewives instead of shad. Although I have seen big stripers chasing small shad.