Shad fishing at Georgetown?

Does anyone ever target the shad at the Pee Dee River and ICW NEAR THE HWY 17 bridge? Similar to the way people fish for them on the re diversion and tail race canals.

If so, I may try them out this year.

that water is much more salt than brackish… a few articles have been written of the big catfish and reds that are caught off that bridge or rather off the pillions … even 3 miles up river we can carry enough salt to hold dolphine,reds ad such… i wouldthink you need to pass the 707 bridge to get near fresh/bass or shad…

why you have the icw and black river you also have pee dee its really crazy how far up river of the black river holds brackish/salt i live in wedgefeild plantation and we are still catching reds off the dock. i would have thought sunny’s/bass/crappie’s would be hear in numbers but thats just not the case.

Some netters get them in the bay. No one fishes for them because there isn’t anything to funnel them tightly enough to target them. They certainly travel up the Wacammaw and the PeeDee, not sure the numbers, but there aren’t any natural “funnel” spots that would be a good spot to set up and target them.

The shad are saltwater fish. They are like salmon, live in saltwater but come into fresh to spawn. There’s just not a place in that area that congregates the fish. Up in the tailrace, and rediversion the fish hit a wall and stack up making them easier to catch. That’s why the way to catch shad in that area is a gill net.

DRIVE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT!!!
The harder you work, the luckier you’ll get.

We catch them on hook and line in the Lynches River where its narrow. Pa Wayne is right, the quanties caught aren’t as high because there isn’t a dam to concentrate them. People catch them with nets upriver in the Pee Dee in good quantities.

Thanks for the responses!
I won’t bother trying to fish for any shad in these areas.