Shad Winterkill Thoughts

I was just down at a dam yesterday and there were dead/dying shad everywhere.

I was hoping to pick up a few cold water winter walleyes but wasn’t sure anything would be effective after a winterkill like this.

Any thoughts?

happens every year

Many industries that collect large amounts of those dead shad in their cooling water intake screens, add them to wood chip and make some pretty good mulch.

edit: the 2 main things that kill them are O2 decrease from ice coverage and fast temperature changes with the most severe being when a power plant trips off line and the cooling water temp decreases very quickly.

^ What they said. I think the walleye fishing won’t be bothered.