Noticed Bill cited a book by Boyd Pfeiffer. It reminded me of a booklet I found in a used book store in Nevada City titled: How to Catch, Bone & Cook a Shad. This publication was issued in June 1970 thru DFG. I was written to encourage people to use the fish (apparently anything beyond catching was not an issue to most fisherman)
One of the chapters is, "How to Bone a Shad in 32 steps." The procedure is accompanied by photographs. After reading the "how to" section, I decided that I'll take my Shad smoked or pickled, thank you. The bone pattern in Shad is complex; not to mention numerous.
Gotta get in some Shad fishin' before going to baja.
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