Gizzard shad while salmon fishing ?

[michaelPhillips]

Last night we were chucking 3/4 oz cleo glo spoons at a west trib . My dad got a fish on. It was a smaller fish and he immediately thought it was a small fresh water drum A.K.A sheepshead. I have caught a few sheepshead and this looked nothing like it. I fairly sure this was a good size ( 2 pounds) gizzard shad or a white fish but I am uncertain of how common these fish are in lake O. Anybody ever catch one salmon fishing before?

After some searching I found other people talking about shad on spoons in ontario http://ontariofishingcommunity.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=47982

 

[michaelPhillips]

After reading the posts it says shads eat plankton. sounds like the fish we caught was a white fish or really was a sheepshead.

 

[Colin]

Yes I have caught them the same was. Only on 2\5 size

 

[michaelPhillips]

Really that's pretty cool. My fathers was 3/4 white with orange spots glo cleo with a 2/0 single.

A serious river mouth fisherman at my local tackle shop told me it was probably a mooneye . He and his friends have caught them a few times on glo's at the lake O trib mouths as well.

Although I have found out that gizzard shad do from time to time hit small spoons and spinners