Hello everybody this is Ryan with Fishthatwontquit. Today I want to show
you my Shad Fishing Rig. Shad are extremely fun fish to catch they fight really hard
they're great for crab bait when you have them also sturgeon love them as
well really easy to catch as well. Here have some of the lures that I like to
use, for example I have over here, some wobbler style lures. This is a,
Dick Nite spoon and a Simon Wobbler. They just go in the water and they wobble and
shad love them. Just tie it on let it out that's all you need to do. Shad darts are
very popular as well. You can do the same thing you tie it on let it out and
that's all you need. Over here I have some jig heads
these are 1/16 size, also 1/32 size work really well, but what's really important
with these is that you have some kind of grub to put on the end. These grubs would
probably be why I catch 80% of the shad that I do. Here's an example of one of my
lures that I've set up, just to test out. It's a inline spinner with a couple beads
and that grub and this thing is caught me a lot of shad. For is a lie and I like to
use, I use a 6 pound leader for those lures and then a 10 pound, somewhat
bumper style, which I'll show you here in a second.
What you'll also want to have, is your weights. Cannon balls
are great when you're in a boat, you're going to want to use the cannon ball. If
you're if you're drifting off the the bank you can use you know little
Bank sinkers or lead, and drift these lures across the river. This set up, I'm
going to show you, is more of a boat setup but here it is right now. So the
rod I'm using is actually my steelhead rod. I didn't want to go out there by a
specific shad rod. I would say your steelhead rod or something with less
power is going to be your best bet. What I have here is the thirty pound
braid. That's the mainline that's actually connected to my rod. Then I
have this bead here to separate this first swivel and the top of my rod.
I hate when i reel in and the swivel gets caught up in that eye
of the rod. So I put that bead there for separation. So now the next step is that
the braid goes to a swivel, just a standard swivel. Then here's that
10-pound bumper I was talking about. So what I have here is a dual lock to start
it off. The Dual lock helps so I can take this off whenever I need to. It easy when
I'm you know setting up or taken down my gear. That leads to a 10 pound line
about a foot here. That foot then leads to a three-way swivel. I like to get
three swivels, with a little clip on the end that clip on the end. It just helps me change
out my lures faster and I like that separation from the line rather than not
having it. From that three-way swivel is two feet of ten pound test and two feet
will lead up to another three way swivel. This way you can have two lures in the
water at the same time. Now you can add a third there's no reason you couldn't. I
think two lures is plenty it's a little bit more stress-free when you're reeling
it in. A little less to worry about tangling up in the net and whatnot.
Now from that three way swivel, is ten pound test. About a foot to another dual lock.
With that dual lock is what you use your weight so you just plop it on
there. If you don't have enough weight you can change that fast if you have too
little weight, same idea. So that's the shad rig there. Now really after that it's as
simple as clipping your leader onto these three ways swivels. So, for example, I
have my shad dart and my custom one I made and I have, on these leaders, two
feet of six pound test connected to a dual lock. That Dual Lock just snaps right on
to the three ways swivel here. Make sure everything is clipped together before
you let it out into the water. So that's the first on. Then you grab your
second three way swivel. Clip that next one on there, and that is it guys.
One piece of advice is, if you're on a boat and you have your weight, you want to
make sure you you let that weight out and back bounce it a little bit to get
the angle of your line a little lower so that your lures are closer to that
strike zone. So how to do that, let your line down you'll feel it hit
the bottom, you'll lift up let that current drift it out just a little bit
more and you'll feel it at the bottom do that about five to ten times and then
leave it there. If you lift up your rod and you don't
feel that weight, that means you don't have enough weight. Go ahead and add a
little bit heavier weight and vice-versa. If you're using too heavy of weight,
you'll notice that it's really just bouncing on that bottom and you don't
have enough give to let it kind of back bounce into the zone. Well guys I hope
that helps, I hope you get out there catch some shad let me know how you do
and stay tuned for more fish that won't quit thank you