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shad fly

shad fly see mayfly .

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	SHAD KEEP GAME FISH WELL FED.(Sports)(Column) Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 4/27/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...bass and wipers, give thanks to a gizzard shad. And to a retired biologist from the Colorado...nasty name to the eastern plains. Gizzard shad thrive, reproduce and feed sport fish...anyone curious enough to filet a gizzard shad will have seen the deep brown-red flesh...
	Shad run rekindles fond memories Newspaper article from: Maryland Gazette; 3/29/2006; 700+ words ; ...to change, and of course the shad will come, both hickories and...whites - also known as American shad. If you're under age 45 that...been a moratorium on for both shads since 1980 and fishing for them...So you can't bring either a shad or tasty shad roe home, but...
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	SHAD BUSINESS, SADLY, IS BAD BUSINESS ONCE PLENTIFUL IN HUDSON, NUMBERS HAVE DECLINED.(SPORTS) Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/19/1996; 700+ words ; ...Press POUGHKEEPSIE -- John Mylod pulls his shad net from the Hudson River, bringing up...Snagged in the thin nylon mesh with the shad is a striped bass -- and another, and...Not a good day. ``You can't fish for shad without catching striped bass,'' he...
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