Well ,
In the past Mike has posted about the efforts to get rid of the shad in West Boggs and the staggering amount of money spent doing so . That is why I said what I did about the stocking . As far as "minnows" I know of no bait shop that sells gizzard shad or threadfin shad as live bait - only as cut bait . Why would someone is go to all the trouble to use them as bait by casting nets in a place that has them { the only why to catch them } and then keeping them in a highly areorated ROUND bait bucket { they die in square containers by swimming into the corners } then transporting them to Boggs knowing that if caught they will be heavily fined when they could get shiner minnows for $1.50 a dozen ? I know a little about shad from fishing the Ohio river for cats with my father-in-law . He has his boat totaly rigged for fishing with shad , a 55 gallon half barrel with pumps to keep them livley and throws a mean cast net . They still die very easily which is why they are drawing Boggs down for the winter hopeing the cold kills enough to keep them in check . Birds transporting eggs on their legs has been proven to be a old wifes tale , the eggs die soon after leaveing the water . As for the shad being upstream and the carp in the lake I will leave that to Mike to answer .