Here's a link to a WDFW page on shad.

http://www.wa.gov/wdfw/outreach/fishing/shad/shad.htm

Tells all "everybody" would want to know about shad and some recipes for those daring enough to keep bony fish.

Myself, since I've smoked whitefish, also classed as bony, with good results, think that shad would also be good smoked.
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