Quote Originally Posted by riverrat12 View Post
mattbay caught a 20+ inch fish on sat that looked like a giant shad. i never thought they could grow that large. could that be right? it wasn't a drum.
joe

Love to see a picture of that... and man what a nice piece of bait. Chuck

I have caught Gizzard Shad as big as 15 1/2 inches long and surely that was not as big as they get. I do know that when they get that size it will take a pretty big fish to eat them. Saw a study somewhere that said a Bass can eat a fish like a Shad up to 1/2 it's body length and a fish shaped like a Bluegill up to 1/3 its body length. Take a pretty big fish to eat a 15-20 inch shad and I bet a shad this size is eating it's own kind to get that big.