I'm not familiar with the Rogue that well but are there any dams between where you fish and the ocean? Or natural barriers like waterfalls?
The reason being, shad won't go up and over fish ladders like salmon and steelhead do.
Examples of this would be the diversion dam at Red Bluff, I don't think I've ever heard of shad above Red Bluff.
The same is true of Daguerre Dam on the Yuba. You never see shad at Park's Bar or Sycramore.
Even on the Feather when the water is low at Shanghai Bend falls the shad will stack there too.
And the Russian at Healdsburg. Not a very big dam there and it has a nice fish ladder too but never a shad at Cloverdale or above.
Shad, because of this are all lower river fish with easy access to the ocean.
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