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I have come across more than one reference that states that American Shad are in the Fraser River and it's tributaries and was wondering if anyone on this board has ever seen one! Shad (an east coast Atlantic Fish) were transplanted to the Pacific decades ago and there are shad sport fisheries in the Western states, particularly in California. Who knows maybe there is a run in Maria Slough ;^)
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Ralph, I have come across fish in the fraser that i thought were shad ...me and a fishing buddy always joked that they were because they looked like shad from those yank bass fishing shows.The ones that ive caught were at the mouth of the coquitlam on a lite trout set up and worms!!
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No Ralph I haven't seen/heard of them but I wouldn't be surprised considering the size of the run in the Columbia. Strays are a fact of life as per that certain slough.
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There are Shad in the Fraser system...a buddy of mine caught one in English bay as well...I have a friend who is a fish grader at Bella Coola fishery and a walking fish encyclopedia...he regularly sees Shad every season while landing Fraser river Gill-net catches...
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For Shad info http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?genusname=Alosa&speciesname=sapidissima Also in his book 'Lake River and Sea Run Fishes of Canada' author Frederick H. Wooding states of American Shad- "It's Pacific coastal range extends from California-where it was introduced in the early 1870's- north along the BC coast to Alaska and west to the Kamchatka Peninsula.Unlike it's Atlantic relative, it spawns mainly in salt water, but spawning runs do occur in the Fraser River and (less abundantly) in Rivers Inlet. The species is more popular as a game fish in the US than in Canada". Sturgeon fishermen on the Columbia River are said to prize American Shad as bait, esp for 'Normans'.
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Hey... the same buddy who caught a shad last summer just caught another one the other day trolling in the gulf...On a anchovy again...
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