Last year our annual Shad Night meeting was heavily attended and it turned out to be the last opportunity for many of us to gather in public. The pandemic arrived in full force just weeks later and has caught up with the event this year. But the show must go on! We invite you to join us on Wednesday, February 24 at 7:30 pm for virtual Shad Night 2021. Getting together again is sure to lift our spirits as another great fishing season on the Potomac approaches. | |
Shad Night 2021 will feature fly tying demonstrations by Rob Snowhite and Art Noglak, updates from Fletcher’s Boathouse and Friends of Fletcher’s Cove, and a how-to presentation from John Kuriawa, our longtime contributor. John usually draws a crowd at his excellent shad fishing resource table during the social hour of our annual event. That’s not possible this year, but John and all of the participants will have a chance to field your questions before we sign off. | |
Unfortunately, the highly anticipated silent auction will not take place this year. Instead, NCC-TU encourages winning bidders from the Shad Night 2020 auction to redeem their local angling trips this season. The pandemic shutdown prevented scheduling many of these outings but we hope conditions to be more favorable this time around. Trips from 2019 that were postponed due to weather or river conditions are also eligible for redemption. Send us an email to get your trips scheduled. | |
Shad are on the move along the Atlantic seaboard. Bill Gordon, one of the many interesting people we have met along the way, sent the NCC-TU Shad Report photos in late January of beautiful American shad caught on the St. Johns river in Florida--see below. He was already getting reports of shad arriving in North Carolina rivers. Fish should be entering the Chesapeake Bay now. | |
Get ready, and look for a link to Shad Night 2021 in you email box soon!
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We welcome the many new Shad Report subscribers that discovered us over the long off-season, some new to the area and some new to shad fishing. The springtime shad migration is a remarkable natural occurrence, available to experience just out your door on one of the Nation's great rivers. You will want to check it out. | |
