Howdy,
My friend's and I were fishing the deadline below Bonneville. Mid-June, and it was smoking! the bite came in waves up the line of anglers, time after time. The Asian fellow next to me inquired why we let ours go and wondered if he could have ours. I explained we just liked fighting them. He then offered to pay .25 each, so we started fishing for beer money. You should have seen the stringer of fish! I asked him what his recipe for Shad was, bury one year and presto! fish sauce. Before we left, a guy decided to start casting over my head. I told him to stop, to which he replied "this is a public place". I said I had got here early to get my spot. Anyway he cast over my head again, I turned around and told him he was about to go swimming in a public place, everybody laughed(but him), and he went back down the line. You will find it interesting to handle your Shad after getting used to the feel of a salmonid, rock hard body's. Great fun fish.