If anyone in the Iowa City area needs to stock up on cut shad, now would be a good time to get down below the dams in town with a snagging outfit or net. The shad are packed in the water there now.
The bad news for me is that I still have plenty of cut shad in the freezer from last fall. The white bass and walleye were starting to bite a few weeks ago, but then the shad hordes showed up. With so many fat tasty meals stacked up below the dams, convincing a gamefish to hit an artificial bait isn’t easy. I picked up a couple white bass tonight, but the October bite has not been good so far.