I'm by far no expert, barely know what I'm doing.

I read on google search that the main species of shad in Taylorsville is Blue Herring. So I have been using blue herring shad all this time and didn't know.
What I was using last weekend must of been farm raised blue herring,,, I bought them in a bait shop. They looked a little different however. Long story short that bait I bought was super stink nasty but it would only sit for about 5 or 10 minutes before it was getting bites. I'm used to it taking about 20 to 30 minutes to start getting good hits.