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Shads
Shads are especially popular for pike perch fishing, but they can also be very effective for pike and perch. You use the shad with a lead head, sometimes called a jig head. With the larger shads sometimes an extra treble or hook is added to the backside for a good chance of chopping the fish.
You have shads in many lengths, with different tails and colours. Small shads are often used for dropshot fishing, where you put a loose hook through the shad with about 15 cm underneath a lead. Small shads are also very effective for perch. The larger shads are used more for zander and pike, but this doesn't mean that this is always better. Keep trying and vary. The most popular tails are the clog tail or paddle tail, a tail that resembles a clog and the fork-tail, also called fork-tail tail.
Shads are often used for vertical fishing from the boat, where you let the shad come on and let it come off the bottom about 30 cm with a vertical rod. But also from the bottom you can do this way, use a longer rod, a spinning rod of at least 240 cm with a sturdy top is really a solution. You can also turn the shad in like a crankbait, because the tail of the fish also makes for an attractive movement.
Twisters
Shads often look a lot like fish, with twisters this is the case for worms. A twister is often a worm with a (long) flexible tail. The tail often has a "G shape", which gives it a lot of action when moving and is therefore very attractive for the predatory fish. A twister is also often very flexible and not too big, which makes it easier to hook in.
Nowadays there are more and more hybrid models between a shad and a twister. Like shad with a twister tail or the other way around.
What length should the shad be?
You can actually catch large predatory fish like pike or catfish at any length. Small predatory fish or young predatory fish may also want to bite on a shad that is too big. But the rule is one that perch and zander bite best on shads up to about 12 cm. If you use shads longer than 12 cm then the chance of that is smaller and the chance of pike a lot bigger.
Do you specifically want to fish for big pike? Don't be afraid to use a shad of 25 cm or more.
As mentioned before, small shads dropshot fish are used just like street fishing. In terms of length you have to think of shads of 4 or 5 cm, also called mini shads.
If you want to give more information about each species of predatory fish, we have listed the lengths:
Shads for perch: 2 to 12 cm (12 cm is for very large perch).
Shads for zander: 5 to 25 cm (25 cm for very large zander)
Shads for pike: 12 to 30 cm
Shads for catfish: 15 cm or larger
Tip: Does the shad feel a bit hard or stiff? You can make it flexible again by boiling it in water for 2 to 3 minutes.