Castnetting at McAlpine

[TroyRalph502]

Can't eat them stripers might as well use them as bait.

Why cant you eat the stripers? They are preadators and dont eat junk off the bottom like other fish.

[Tyme2fish]

I'm kinda new on using a cast net but on my last trip to Mcalpine I threw a perfect throw (for me) right on a school of shad.
There must have been at least 200 of them in my net. I knew we'd never use that many and released most of them right back in the river, keeping the rest for that day's usage. Even with a Magic Bubbles in the bucket they all died in about 10 minutes.
I confess I didn't sort out what I caught as to whether or not I'd snagged some game fish minnows. They all looked like shad to me.