Yesterday my son was casting the net off our dock at Edisto, and he kept telling me he caught a couple big mullet for fishing today. I went out to check that evening and, no, they weren’t mullet. They were shad(!) About 8" long.
I was surprised. He said he had caught them before in the past but just thought they were mullet.
Anyone ever heard of something like this? We are on a tidal creek that is not fed by freshwater, ie. not brackish. Its completely refreshed with saltwater every tide cycle. I thought that was pretty interesting.
PP I wish I had taken a photo for positive ID but looking on a website it looks like an American Shad, which I think is the same as we catch up at the dam, no?
