I'll be staying in Weldon and offering half and full day charters for Shad on that Thursday - Sunday. I am going to reserve March 30, 31, April 1, 2 for Shad charters on the Roanoke. I would like to do a mini-season up in Weldon, just like I do for the Striper run later in the spring. It's been a few years since I've run Shad charters, but this year I'd like to start them up again. This is a really fun fishery for adults, but it's also an absolute blast for kids because it's such an easy fishery. We also fish them with light spin rods and small jigs and catch a bunch that way too. We fish 4 or 5wts with sinking lines and bright colored flies, resulting in bunches of Shad that pull and jump and put a big smile on your face. This is some of the most fun I've had with a fly rod. Roanoke River Shad Season - I've fly fished for Hickory Shad on the Roanoke River for over 15 years. Often these fish get a bit lockjawed in the week before they spawn, which could explain the low number of bites. A week after I arrived, we started seeing spawning activity from the fish. Perhaps the delayed increase in flow delayed the push of the fish upstream to their spawning grounds. When the Striped Bass gather in the Albemarle Sound and the mouth of the Roanoke River, they wait on signs such as high water flows to start their 100 mile journey upstream. And although the flow of 12,000 cfs was great for spawning fish, the flow had only been up for a few days before my arrival. Low water temps could have played a roll. Where were the missing fish, and why was the bite tougher than normal? Good question. Casting jigs on spinning rods produced a little better bite for us.
We caught fish, but we had to work for them.
We had fish, but they had not arrived in the numbers I was hoping for, and they were scattered up and down the river instead of being stacked in big schools. Although the town of Weldon NC is known as the "Rockfish Capital of the World", it wasn't earning it's reputation the first few days of my trip.
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