Jeff’s 2025 AR Shad Reports

[Jeff C.]

Solo float in the mini today and got a handful of big hens swinging a Cherry Bomb. There were no buckets, just one or two here and there.

[Twowheelsonecamera]

Hey Jeff! Hope life is well my man, and I hope we bump into each other again sometime soon (Nate by the way). I was wondering...while the shad have that double rib cage, is it something that can be sushi worthy or sashimi even?

[winxp_man]

Hey Jeff! Hope life is well my man, and I hope we bump into each other again sometime soon (Nate by the way). I was wondering...while the shad have that double rib cage, is it something that can be sushi worthy or sashimi even?

Nope, not in my books. Tried twice to eat some. Never again. Unless you pickle them, smoke them, or steam them. And these recipes listed don’t care for. The amount of bones is nuts. Meat taste great fried with pepper and lemon like I like it. But in what I listed no thanks. I like my chicken and beef too much! Haha!

[Jeff C.]

Nate, If you can get past the bones shad are very tasty. I steamed one Chinese style (ginger, green onions, hot oil and soy sauce). It was oily with sweet meat but I ended up with a dinner plate full of bones after eating half of it. If you’re going to eat it raw make sure you freeze it first because they have a worm parasite. Alosa came up one evening to get some samples and he cut open a big hen showed me the worms in it. He said the worms can grow in you and is common in herring in Scandinavian counties. Pickling doesn’t kill the worms so they require herring to be frozen before pickling.